[guide.chat] : Fwd: Old times !!!

From: "Keith Wines" <keith.wines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:01:32 +0100


:Fwd: Old times  !!!

: old times
For some of you,  this will really be hard to believe, but it's all true.     
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were 
growing up?'   
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.       All the 
food was slow.'   

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'   
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !   
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at 
the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was 
allowed to sit there until I did like it.'   

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer 
serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have 
permission to leave the table.   
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I 
figured his system could have handled it :   
    
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf 
course, vacationed out of the country or had a credit card.   
    
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 
pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).   
    
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.   
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 
midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back 
on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and 
farm show on, featuring local people...   

I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone was on a party line. Before 
you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know 
weren't already using the line.   
    
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.   
    
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers   -- my 
brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week.  He had to get up at   6AM   
every morning.   
    
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. 
There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for 
everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything 
offensive.   

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to 
share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't 
blame me if they bust a gut laughing.   
    
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?   
    
    
    
MEMORIES from a friend :   
My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he 
brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with 
a bunch of holes in it.  I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no 
idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew 
it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes 
with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.   
    
    
How many do you remember?   
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. 
Ignition switches on the dashboard. 
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.   
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. 
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.   

Older Than Dirt Quiz :   
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.       
Ratings at the bottom.   

1.Candy cigarettes 
2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes   
3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles   
4. Party lines   on the telephone 
5.Newsreels before the movie   
6.TV   test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there 
until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels   [if 
you were fortunate] ) 
7.Peashooters   
8. Howdy Doody   
9. 45 RPM records   
10.Hi-fi's 
11. Metal ice trays with lever   
12. Blue flashbulb 
13.Cork popguns   
14. Studebakers 
15. Wash tub wringers   

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older  
If you remembered 7-10  = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt!   

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my 
life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!  
Especially to all your really   OLD   friends....

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