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A GEEZER TEST

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 cap.

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 WW 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 a 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. P! rincess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?

a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as 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, that tasted like bubblegum
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. Zavier 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 gatherings 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 household 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 (or bad, depending on your taste).


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 a sad excuse for a geezer or you are younger than springtime!

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A GEEZER.  :P

1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle cap.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II?
b. Leg painting

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
6. a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
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

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?
c. Polio

12. "I'll be down to get you in a _______, Honey"
b. Taxi

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
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

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items. Also called S&H green stamps.

18. Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song "Cabdriver" a hit?  (I'm guessing here but .......... )
a. The Ink Spots,   The other 2 groups were I believe in the 60's.

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett


Okay how did I do??

oh dear  it seems your older than dirt dw  :(

Memeries...............  :)

ok so am I really older than dirt? I'm only 29.... I guess my kids are right... he he he

who you kiddin....at 29 you still are a KID  ;D

Hi there kiddo. ;D

Kinda funny, but I'm turning 29 in five days and I think I got 17 or 18 right, give or take one or two to the negative ;). I guess that either makes me older then dirt, or I really listened to all those stories mom, dad, grandpa and grandma told all those years ago...

Ahhh what memories.

God Bless,
Robert

I failed the test! I don't know whether to rejoice because I'm not as old as I think I am or lament my loss of memory.

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Where's my glasses now?

 ;D ;D

I took the test, but I forgot my score.

By the way, where am I?





 ;D

geezers!  ::)

8. How was Butch wax used?


HEY :o

What a fantastic test!

I got a very high score!  HAHAHA!


I sure remember Butch Wax too.  My brother used it on his hair.  He had the "flat top" look.

*sigh*

And flat tops were always more expensive.

I think it was $1.25 for a regular; $1.75 for a flat top haircut.

    ::)


    8)

Hello Butcha,

It's great to hear from you.

As an old guy, I can tell you everything you want to know about Butch Wax.

It actually worked pretty well in greasing chains and bearing on your bicycle, but that's not what it was sold for.   ;D

It was sold for applying it to your flat-top haircut and making your hair stand straight up and flat. It was really a pretty cool haircut, and it was very popular as a short style for many years. One simply got a fairly small amount out of the jar and rubbed it in. I might add it was very hard to wash off, and it still worked in the rain.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

I worked years for someone else So that I could retire. I dreamed of sleeping late And sitting by the fire.

I dreamed of long vacations, Enjoying stage and song. But, let me set you straight on that concept, It is simply wrong.

I did junk my safety glasses And the work boots that cramped my toes. But, the rest of it had a mind of it's own And this is how it goes.

My wife had been thinking of retirement And had plans of her own. She had spent much time with the kids But, now they are grown and gone.

We sold our cattle and horses So we wouldn't have that chore. I poured concrete over my alarm clock But, I still wake up at four.

I get my eyes checked on Monday. Maggie gets hers checked the next day. I go for a colon check on Wednesday And pass my wife going the other way.

I have a dental appointment on Thursday. Ann goes for a test on her heart. Friday we go get prescriptions filled And browse a while at Wal-mart.

Saturdays we just stay home And try to get the paper work right. We can't take any overnight trips 'Cause we can't see to drive at night.

Restroom confusion keeps us out of church on Sunday And we really do hate that. There's nothing wrong with the restrooms, We just can't remember where they're at.

We don't need to plan next week, Just make sure we can drive. And not forget where the hospitals and clinics are. We'll need them to survive.

So, don't build your castles too high, my friend, While strolling through the clover. This is a typical week in retirement And on Monday we start all over!  :D

LOL, so true.

Don't foreget the running around for the kids and grandkids. "Gramps isn't working, he can do it."

LOL not as much time for strolling thru the clover as you thought there would be eh  ;D

What clover?

A GEEZER TEST

1. b.

2. b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing

3. c.

4. a.

5. b.

6. c.

7. c.

8. a.

9. a.

10. c.

11. a.

12. b.

13. a.

14. c.

15. a.

16. c.

17. b.

18. c.

19. a.

20. a.

The sad thing is i knew just about all of them. My grandmother and dad and his brothers still talk about the old days and all that. So does that make me a geezer...i should think not. LOL. I should hope not considering i'm still 17 :P

;D

Joshua

Joshua,

 ;D  Brother, maybe there is an old geezer in there straining to get out.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Luke 2:11  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

No that's just what I get for being brought up in a rural farm town in the South. ;D

Joshua

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy.


Yup this dawg is muddy

 ::)  Guess I'm not quite dirt yet.  I knew 14 of teh answers.  I was ten years old in 1940!  So long ago

Hi, Gramps!

I'm not sure but I think that makes you the oldest on the forum.  ;) ;D

Hey, I got them all but the Kennedy pony thing.  But that question and the Tony Bennett one are not that old.

Here's one:  What came in a sealed plastic bag with a color capsule inside that you had to break and mix with the product before using it?  And why did it come that way?

Thats before my time....................... guess I'm just a young 48. ;D

hmmm, NOT a clue lol.. guess it was before my time to.. I am  an even younger (then DW) 33 ;D ;)

I don't remember what it was called nor why it was done that way but it sounds like an old medicine for headaches.

sounds like some kind of stuff u break open mix with water to make a haertburn drink or something.. LOL just a UNeducated guess lol ;)

Hey! I represent that statement!  :-\;D