Audiophiles are older than dirt


Someone sent this to me recently. If you remember number 16..... then you are older than dirt.

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 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 wonder what it means if you read posts on Audiogon that are titled;

"What is Hi-Fi", "How is mid-fi defined", "Hearing tests, where and how", "I need help with a Dual 1291 that rumbles", "New stereo trend", "Tubes and moisture", "TT sounds so bad, I cringe", "Real audiophiles dont like remotes", "Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC", "What did you own in the 60s?", "Vacuum tube chess set", "Aging technology verse inevitably aging ears", and this lollapaloozer "An audiophile goal" and finally "Farewell my friends".

Yeah, we are all older than dirt!

Bob
PHP143
If the first 100db suck, why continue?





acoustat6
mr dirt to yew. i,m 57 and grew up in so,missouri so draw yer own conklusions. i remember every one of em..i.ll add one. do you remember the origonal mt dew bottles. well..........
Hotmailjbc,
Is that the one with the hillbilly in raised glass? I remember seeing one of those in a diner once in Mississippi and getting served a bottle with the same guy on it but in red and white paint. I actually loved the old mountain dew; super-carbonated and a caffeine jolt second to none. My mother also got a bottle (that was all they had cold) and she didn't let me drink any more after that one bottle (too caffeinated she said) but that lasted about as long as the end of that trip. Not long after that I was using lawn-mowing money to play pinball and drink MD once or twice a week after school.
I only scored 9, less than half, so I guess I am definitely not older than dirt, but not a spring chicken, either.
Red Scare, Think Pink. Yeah Joseph McCarthy was the real scare.
I also remember taking part in duck and cover drills in grade school.
U2 Gary Powers, NOT U2 the music group.
Sputnik/Vanguard.
Nam'
Bay of Pigs,
Cuban Missle Blockade,
Landing on the Moon, (or not. I vote we did).
Kennedy Assasination, the coverup. Bobby, ML King.
Peace movement, SDS, Chicago Democratic convention police action Black Panthers,
Nixon. Watergate.
Well said Elizabeth,

Add in Jim Crow laws, McCarthyism, no pill, rampant smoking, many limitations to basic freedoms, etc. Somehow it doesn't seem so innocent.