History Exam
I’m under 40 and I got THIRTEEN-er-TWELVE right. Btw-We had a milkman until about 1977. I can remember trying to pour those big orange and white checkered “Dixie” milk cartons.
Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
01/09/2005 at 09:06 AM
15 right. Not bad.
Macker, is your blog up? I can’t get anything to load on it.
I got 16 right.......not bad for an ole broad!!!
Posted by Dottie
01/09/2005 at 10:56 AM
I got 20/20 because I lucked out on Inkspots and Macaroni. SWAG** system works sometimes, but doesn’t change that knowing most of these means I’m still older than dirt.
**Acronym = Scientific Wild-Assed Guess. Got by many times with this at work. It’s probably a good thing I never designed bridges, don’t you think?
I’ll let you know, sonny, that I got 19 right, only missing #5. Why back in My day we had tests that had 30 questions. I can remember taking the graded tests home from school (uphill, in the snow) because My parents insisted on seeing everything.
In Michigan, the houses were milk-safe. There was a little hole in the wall which had two doors. The milkman would use the outer door to take the empties and put the new milk in, then we’d use the inner door. It kept it somewhat warmer than standing outside. It also made drafts in the kitchen. Though My parents said they did use it early on, as far back as I can remember we bought our milk at the store. The Twin Pines truck used to come around for some of the other houses on the street, but not ours.
Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds
01/09/2005 at 02:39 PM
20/20 Damn, I wish my eyesight was that good! Older than dirt.
20/20 here, and older than dirt but younger than dust<G>. Actually the Studabaker one almost got me....had to swag between the Stud or the Tucker. So here is a question back at ya....
what did the numbers 10, 2, and 4 mean/represent on the old glass Dr Pepper bottles? (I know the answer and will pass along if anyone is interested)
Posted by Guy S.
01/09/2005 at 03:54 PM
The 10-2-4 logo has been used since the late 1920s when Columbia University scientist Dr Walter Eddy studied the body’s metabolism and found that the human energy level drops to its lowest point at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and again at 4:30 p.m. each day. But, Dr. Eddy concluded, eating or drinking sometime just prior to those slumps keeps the energy level up.
Now, who can tell me what “L.S.M.F.T.” means?
and what color was a pack of Luckies when “they went to war”?
Posted by Guy S.
01/09/2005 at 04:49 PM
Dar n it- BobF got it before I could........
Posted by Dottie
01/09/2005 at 05:30 PM
Lucky Strike had a green circle on the pack before they “went to war” and turned the circle red. I know ‘cause my dad smoked Luckys his whole life.
19 out of 20!! Is 54 really older than dirt?
Posted by MAJ Mike
01/09/2005 at 07:16 PM
Never did any duck-and-cover that I recall, but they did march us out into the courtyard monthly to make it easier for the commie pilots to strafe us (Dad was in the Army; I grew up primarily in western Europe).
Posted by Anachronda
01/09/2005 at 08:25 PM
20 right. STILL have too much snow to go tothe store. More on the way. So I ain’t too loquacious.
Posted by Steel Turman
01/09/2005 at 08:45 PM
17/20 Missed the Studebaker, I thought it was Tucker. When I was a kid in Dallas the milkman would come right in the house and put the milk in the ice box. We had a breadman too. He would say “Maynard Bread” when he came to the door. We also put gas in the car down at the fillin’ station. We called idiots shit-asses.
18 correct. I missed 6 and 13. And to be honest, I guessed on a couple of ‘em.
Posted by Kate
01/10/2005 at 03:54 AM
19/20 I missed the Dr Pepper cap use.
Finding your milk has frozen and has pushed the top off leaving a 1” cylinder of ice milk sticking out of the bottle is a reminder to get it as early as you can.
I’m sorry to know that LS/MFT doesn’t mean Let’s Screw, My Finger’s Tired.
Older ‘n dirt, in the first wave of baby boomers: 20/20
Posted by John
01/11/2005 at 02:18 PM
