If you were born before 1986 - read on

[Lol999]

played with fireworks (the real ones)

we made our own fireworks! and nitrogen tri-iodide that explodes when in solid form! high powered catapults, throwing arrows (a yard of dowelling with a nail in the end, cardboard flights in the other, launched with a length of string like a javelin, lethal!!), rope swings over deep rivers when you can't swim!! trouble is my kids know what I got up to and wonder why I place restrictions on them!

This is one for the UK. Does anyone remember cadbury's bringing out soya mince in tins that tasted like minced beef? Or Wrigleys chewing gum in cardboard packets?

 

[JonMikal]

Here are some more 'memories' to make you feel old. It's the "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
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
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!

I refuse to comment on what I scored. Nope. No way.

seems i have a foot in the coffin

 

[bace]

Ok seriously. I'm only 25.

I thought I was just starting to grow up, not get old.

 

[terri]

Someone tell me what "butch wax" is, so I can say whether or not I remember it.

Cause, you know, it sounds kinda nasty. :crazy:

 

[omeletteman]

I was born in '85, I can relate to most of the "your too young" things, and many of the things from Darfions list.
I still don't have a cell phone, anyone who says you need one is delusional.

 

[photo gal]

Someone tell me what "butch wax" is, so I can say whether or not I remember it.

Cause, you know, it sounds kinda nasty. :crazy:

I think it actually is nasty!....if I recall correctly!

 

[Hertz van Rental]

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

You had a job? You lucky, lucky bastard.

 

[JonMikal]

Someone tell me what "butch wax" is, so I can say whether or not I remember it.

Cause, you know, it sounds kinda nasty. :crazy:

hair product from the 50's and 60's

 

[PlasticSpanner]

My sister & I used to ride in the boot of my dads estate car (station wagon?) all the time! We thought it was great when he used to throw the car round corners or jump on the brakes! Best rollercoaster ever! :thumbup:

Hmmm Black Jacks & fruit salad chews! I really miss them!

 

[terri]

hair product from the 50's and 60's

thank you, Johnny.

And yeah....that's nasty.

I remember the "a little dab'll do ya" commercials....some hair product....but I don't remember what it was...

 

[weeping widow]

My sister & I used to ride in the boot of my dads estate car (station wagon?) all the time! We thought it was great when he used to throw the car round corners or jump on the brakes! Best rollercoaster ever! :thumbup:

Hmmm Black Jacks & fruit salad chews! I really miss them!

Talk about station wagons - ours did not have a reverse so we had to park going frontwards only. That was always a challenge! My kids would hide in the floor when I took them to school.

 

[mrsid99]

thank you, Johnny.

And yeah....that's nasty.

I remember the "a little dab'll do ya" commercials....some hair product....but I don't remember what it was...

Brylcreem!

 

[mrsid99]

I still have my old ration card somewhere....

So have I and I remember using it to buy sweets (candy) but remember the UK was one of the last countries to end rationing after WW2, 1953 if I remember correctly.

 

[PachelbelsCanon350D]

Awww, great read!!! I was only born in 1980 but this gave me so many warm fuzzies and memories. It's all so true. It was so awesome being a kid before lawsuit-mania, video games, and cell phones.

 

[Hertz van Rental]

Hmmm Black Jacks & fruit salad chews! I really miss them!

I think you can still get them - or you could a few years ago.
I remember finding a little old sweet shop that still sold loose and they had Cherry Lips and Squirrel Gums.
And loose Sherbet....