# Stuff the youngsters will scratch their heads over... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005 "2000-07-18T19:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Doubleclick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Doubleclick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubleclick)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005/321 "2000-11-29T19:08:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Digging up the Zombies, are we **Doubleclick**? \*\* Sorry. 🙂 I saw it link on the SD Archive and clicked
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005/322 "2000-11-29T19:26:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scribe \* > \*\* > I was in the library yesterday, reading some old issues of Life from the early 1950s. > > I spotted an ad for Armour pork sausage, with a big picture of a frying pan full of cooking sausage burgers. Cartoon characters surrounded it saying nice things about the sausage
 > > One of the plaudits for the sausage was “Fresh as dew!” > > I was scratching my head, because as yummy as I think sausage is, I don’t think of fried sausage and a pretty garden, say, in the same sentence. Unless I’m really, really hungry. 🙂 \*\* For me the absolute classic of the postwar magazine meat advertisements was the wonderful four-page spread on ‘Spam’! I found this in my college library in the late 1970’s. “What’s that sizzling sound I hear?”–“Why, it’s SPAM and eggs, my dear!”. The ad provided further details about how this wonderful product was produced, and about the wonderful people who produced it at the Hormel plant. There was a little sidebar on Somebody Howe, who worked boning the ham, and coincidentally lived on the same block as some Hormel VP. Once introduced, this person was subsequently referred to as ‘Boner Howe’, which delighted my brother and me no end. Even as recently as 6 years ago, my brother seriously considered registering his West Highland White Terrier as “Boner Howe”! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005/323 "2000-11-29T19:55:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baloo \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > > \*\*You mean they were
having sex? **Parents** having sex? Eewwww, gross! Parents don’t have sex! > > 😉 \*\* > > How appropriate for _Kinsey_ to be the first one to report back on that particular observation. > > Does anyone else remember when it was hip to wear a suit and tie? My mom has a picture of herself, dad, and some of their friends in a swank dinner club and they’re all dressed in suits (men) and gold lamĂ© (women). They look like extras in **Gentlemen Prefer Blondes**. > > ~~Baloo \*\* Hey, I’m 42 and I kind of like wearing a suit and tie when going out to certain types of shows, restaurants, and the like. It lends atmosphere. But I don’t wear one every day and I wouldn’t like to. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005/324 "2000-11-29T19:57:58Z")
Sorry, Doubleclick, but the early GI Joes didn’t have fuzzy hair and eyes that moved. The entire head was plastic and the hair was just painted on. The eyes didn’t move, either. The fuzzy hair, Kung-fu grip, and facial hair came along later. ---
**Author:** ![Doubleclick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Doubleclick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubleclick)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005/325 "2001-01-23T14:53:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*Sorry, Doubleclick, but the early GI Joes didn’t have fuzzy hair and eyes that moved. The entire head was plastic and the hair was just painted on. The eyes didn’t move, either. The fuzzy hair, Kung-fu grip, and facial hair came along later. \*\* (Sorry for taking so long to reply.) True, but the GI Joes that most (if not all) people younger than me remember are the 3" ones made by Hasbro. When I first got my hands on a real GI Joe, it was the one I mentioned in my original post. I’m sure there were earlier ones, but I wasn’t quite old enough to remember them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005/326 "2001-01-23T16:06:09Z")
Watching Walter Cronkite give the body counts from the Veitnam War. Remember when you could get a Good Humor dixie cup for 10 cents, with a real wooden spoon? Remember when keyboards actually had the cents symbol? And who could forget going to the store and getting the newest Mad magazine, whicn was only 40 cents (cheap)? (And I’m sure there are those out there who remember when they were cheaper.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-the-youngsters-will-scratch-their-heads-over/26005.md?page=16)