I'm older than dirt.... I took the quiz and proved it.

[Vort]

Originally Posted by BenRaines

Sounds like a church function Vort. Often had homemade root beer.

Ben Raines

The Church stuff was usually dry-ice made, since the yeast takes a week or so to carbonate the root beer.

[applepansy]

I remember making root beer with yeast. yummy stuff

[Blackmarch]

Originally Posted by applepansy

Older Than Dirt Quiz :



Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.



1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. 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])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!

well from this quiz i'm older than dirt (barely lol)... however I'd have to admit my age has been helped along by having grandparents who had a lot of older stuff that i'd play around with. and growing up right when a lot of this stuff gone except for out in middle of nowhere western US type areas.

yeast root beer tastes quite a bit different too.

[Iggy]

Yep, I'm older than dirt too. One thing I don't miss is the wax bottle with the sweet liquid in it. There were also the wax lips, fangs, etc. Those were nasty tasting too.

Mimeograph paper- helped the teacher print out tests when I was in the 5th grade. Love the smell of it! Cut myself on the metal ice cube tray- had to have stitches for that one.

My brother put my hand through the wringer- he got one severe spanking and I avoided the washer for nearly a year.

I loved to listen in on the party line- best eavesdropping tool ever invented.

[Captain_Curmudgeon]

Would anyone believe that I didn't get them all? 25 / 25.

PS. Root beer made with yeast contains alcohol. C6H12O -> 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2. In other words, for every molecule of carbon dioxide you get to carbonate the root beer, you also get one molecule of alcohol. Science.

[Vort]

Originally Posted by Captain_Curmudgeon

Would anyone believe that I didn't get them all? 25 / 25.

PS. Root beer made with yeast contains alcohol. C6H12O -> 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2. In other words, for every molecule of carbon dioxide you get to carbonate the root beer, you also get one molecule of alcohol. Science.

Alcohol of such low concentration is simply processed as another foodstuff. Yeast-fermented root beer has only sufficient fermentation to carbonate the beverage. The majority of the sugar is present as a sweetener.

[anatess]

What, no Betamax?

And 45's are not old enough... 33.5 LPs were the old ones.

And yes, I still have a tape player in my car...

But no, I'm not old enough. I barely made 2 on the list.

[classylady]

Originally Posted by anatess

What, no Betamax?

And 45's are not old enough... 33.5 LPs were the old ones.

And yes, I still have a tape player in my car...

But no, I'm not old enough. I barely made 2 on the list.

I'm thinking 78's were the old ones.

[Vort]

Originally Posted by classylady

I'm thinking 78's were the old ones.

Actually, wax cylinders typically turned at between 90 and 160 RPM.

[classylady]

Originally Posted by Vort

Actually, wax cylinders typically turned at between 90 and 160 RPM.

Must be before my time. I do remember the 78's. Still have quite a few of my family's old 78's.

We had an old, I don't even know what you would call it, thingamajig, that would make records. I have an old record of me as a toddler, with my dad talking to me, and getting me to say the alphabet. Now, to me, that is priceless, since my father died when I was six years old.