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<font color=CC66CC>Short Post Man cracks me up!<br
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- Nov 25, 2001
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> Old Geezer's Test: (Answers at the end. Don't look
> until you finish & total
> your score) I got 18 right!
>
> 1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight
> dimmer switches located?
> a. On the floor shift knob
> b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch
> c. Next to the horn
>
>
> 2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had
> holes in it. For what was
> it used?
> a. Capture lightning bugs
> b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
> c. Large salt shaker
>
>
> 3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in
> northern winters?
> a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk
> b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
> c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors
> and milk would freeze,
> expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.
>
>
> 4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game
> of chance?
> a. Blackjack
> b. Gin
> c. Craps!
>
>
> 5. What method did women use to look as if they were
> wearing stockings when
> none were available due to rationing during W.W.II?
> a. Suntan
> b. Leg painting
> c. Wearing slacks
>
>
> 6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its
> ear when you couldn't
> tell whether it was coming or going?
> a. Studebaker
> b. Nash Metro
> c. Tucker
>
>
> 7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
> a. Strips of dried peanut butter
> b. Chocolate licorice bars
> c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> inside
>
>
> 8. How was Butch wax used?
> a. To stiffen a flattop haircut so it stood up
> b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
> c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust
>
>
> 9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your
> roller skates attached to
> your shoes?
> a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key
> b. Woven straps that crossed the foot
> c. Long pieces of twine
>
>
> 10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to
> reach decision?
> a. Consider all the facts
> b. Ask Mom
> c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo
>
>
> 11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?
> a. Smallpox
> b. AIDS
> c. Polio
>
>
> 12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
> a. SUV
> b. Taxi
> c. Streetcar
>
>
> 13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet
> pony?
> a. Old Blue
> b. Paint
> c. Macaroni
>
>
> 14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
> a. Part of the game of hide and seek
> b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do
> chores
> c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head
> with your
> arms in an A-bomb drill
>
>
> 15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the
> Howdy Doody show?
> a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
> b. Princess Sacajewea
> c. Princess Moonshadow
>
>
> 16. What did all the really savvy students do when
> mimeographed tests were
> handed out in school?
> a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, this was
> believed to get you high
> b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs
> out the window
> c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid
> your failure
>
>
> 17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green
> Stamps with purchases?
> a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs,
> which tasted like
> bubble gum
> b. They could be put in special books and redeemed
> for various household
> items
> c. They were given to the kids to be used as
> stick-on tattoos
>
>
> 18. "Praise the Lord, and pass the _________."
> a. Meatballs
> b. Dames
> c. Ammunition
>
>
> 19. What was the name of the singing group that made
> the song "Cabdriver" a
> hit?
> a. The Ink Spots
> b. The Supremes
> c. The Esquires
>
>
> 20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
> a. Tony Bennett
> b. Xavier Cugat
> c. George Gershwin
> _____________________________________
> ANSWERS:
> 1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand
> controls, popular in
> Europe, took till the late '60s to catch on.
> 2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a
> steam iron?
> 3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and
> expand, popping the bottle
> top.
> 4. a) Blackjack Gum.
> 5. b) Special makeup was applied, followed by
> drawing a seam down the back
> of the leg with eyebrow pencil.
> 6. a) 1946 Studebaker.
> 7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet
> colored water.
> 8. a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.
> 9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which
> you wore on a
> shoestring around your neck.
> 10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
> 11. c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools
> were closed, movies and
> other public gathering places were closed to try to
> prevent spread of the
> disease
> 12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
> 13. c) Macaroni.
> 14. c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your
> head with your arms in an
> A-bomb drill.
> 15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was
> another puppet.
> 16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a
> high.
> 17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be
> traded for house-hold
> items at the Green Stamp store
> 18. c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.
> 19. a) The all male, all black group: The Inkspots.
> 20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good
> today.
> ______________________________________
> SCORING:
>
> 17- 20 correct: You are not only older than dirt,
> but obviously gifted with
> mind bloat. Now if you could only find your glasses.
>
> 12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is
> definitely muddy..
>
> 0-11 correct: You are either a sad excuse for a
> geezer or you are younger
> than springtime!
> until you finish & total
> your score) I got 18 right!
>
> 1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight
> dimmer switches located?
> a. On the floor shift knob
> b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch
> c. Next to the horn
>
>
> 2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had
> holes in it. For what was
> it used?
> a. Capture lightning bugs
> b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
> c. Large salt shaker
>
>
> 3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in
> northern winters?
> a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk
> b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
> c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors
> and milk would freeze,
> expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.
>
>
> 4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game
> of chance?
> a. Blackjack
> b. Gin
> c. Craps!
>
>
> 5. What method did women use to look as if they were
> wearing stockings when
> none were available due to rationing during W.W.II?
> a. Suntan
> b. Leg painting
> c. Wearing slacks
>
>
> 6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its
> ear when you couldn't
> tell whether it was coming or going?
> a. Studebaker
> b. Nash Metro
> c. Tucker
>
>
> 7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
> a. Strips of dried peanut butter
> b. Chocolate licorice bars
> c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> inside
>
>
> 8. How was Butch wax used?
> a. To stiffen a flattop haircut so it stood up
> b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
> c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust
>
>
> 9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your
> roller skates attached to
> your shoes?
> a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key
> b. Woven straps that crossed the foot
> c. Long pieces of twine
>
>
> 10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to
> reach decision?
> a. Consider all the facts
> b. Ask Mom
> c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo
>
>
> 11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?
> a. Smallpox
> b. AIDS
> c. Polio
>
>
> 12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
> a. SUV
> b. Taxi
> c. Streetcar
>
>
> 13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet
> pony?
> a. Old Blue
> b. Paint
> c. Macaroni
>
>
> 14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
> a. Part of the game of hide and seek
> b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do
> chores
> c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head
> with your
> arms in an A-bomb drill
>
>
> 15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the
> Howdy Doody show?
> a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
> b. Princess Sacajewea
> c. Princess Moonshadow
>
>
> 16. What did all the really savvy students do when
> mimeographed tests were
> handed out in school?
> a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, this was
> believed to get you high
> b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs
> out the window
> c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid
> your failure
>
>
> 17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green
> Stamps with purchases?
> a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs,
> which tasted like
> bubble gum
> b. They could be put in special books and redeemed
> for various household
> items
> c. They were given to the kids to be used as
> stick-on tattoos
>
>
> 18. "Praise the Lord, and pass the _________."
> a. Meatballs
> b. Dames
> c. Ammunition
>
>
> 19. What was the name of the singing group that made
> the song "Cabdriver" a
> hit?
> a. The Ink Spots
> b. The Supremes
> c. The Esquires
>
>
> 20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
> a. Tony Bennett
> b. Xavier Cugat
> c. George Gershwin
> _____________________________________
> ANSWERS:
> 1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand
> controls, popular in
> Europe, took till the late '60s to catch on.
> 2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a
> steam iron?
> 3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and
> expand, popping the bottle
> top.
> 4. a) Blackjack Gum.
> 5. b) Special makeup was applied, followed by
> drawing a seam down the back
> of the leg with eyebrow pencil.
> 6. a) 1946 Studebaker.
> 7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet
> colored water.
> 8. a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.
> 9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which
> you wore on a
> shoestring around your neck.
> 10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
> 11. c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools
> were closed, movies and
> other public gathering places were closed to try to
> prevent spread of the
> disease
> 12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
> 13. c) Macaroni.
> 14. c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your
> head with your arms in an
> A-bomb drill.
> 15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was
> another puppet.
> 16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a
> high.
> 17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be
> traded for house-hold
> items at the Green Stamp store
> 18. c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.
> 19. a) The all male, all black group: The Inkspots.
> 20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good
> today.
> ______________________________________
> SCORING:
>
> 17- 20 correct: You are not only older than dirt,
> but obviously gifted with
> mind bloat. Now if you could only find your glasses.
>
> 12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is
> definitely muddy..
>
> 0-11 correct: You are either a sad excuse for a
> geezer or you are younger
> than springtime!
