What questions would expose a youngster?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In a GQ thread asking about those cables you see in the middle of the road, one poster compared their function to a service station bell hose. This prompted Fat Bald Guy to point out in wry amazement that there is a whole generation of people that has no idea what a service station bell hose is.

What other questions/phrases might show someone’s age, or lack thereof?

I have some nominees:
[ul]
[li]Number, please?[/li]
[li]You sound like a broken record.[/li]
[li]A person-to-person call.[/li]
[li]Even-numbered license plates on an odd day - no gas.[/li]
[/ul]

What else?

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You can’t put the 45 on, the needle’s broken.
Isn’t that indian head that comes on TV after midnight creepy?
Take the tuna out of the oven and put some canned onions on it.

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Or, coming at this question from a completly different angle, you could try “Take off your pants young man.”

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How about the old “party lines” which people used to share.

I imagine this would leave most youngsters thinking of some 900 line. Or worse yet, a drug reference.

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Where’s the church key?

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“My phone number was Murray Hill 2-1234.”

“Let’s drop a dime on him.”

“No, you can’t play Super-8 films in your camcorder.”

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The vacuum line came off, so my wipers don’t work.

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Mindset List

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Is your town large enough to have postal zones?

Once you’ve turned the key, press the starter button.

Which do you like better, Kool-Aid or Fizzies?

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A “youngster”? I’m in my thirties, and I don’t recognise most of the above references.

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Bricker *
[li]You sound like a broken record.[/li][/QUOTE]

Re…cord?

In all seriousness, can you someone explain the tuna and thing?

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I was about to say, aren’t some of you aiming for older youngsters?

Sorry if you weren’t, since some of the references are actually a generation gap from my father’s era. I was never around for the age of records, and I’m a generation ahead of the current youngsters. Young youngsters don’t remember cassettes.

Some others that will differentiate your crowd from Grampa’s are:

Send him a telegraph.

The pony express is late.

My horseless carriage is mighty fine.

In like Flynn.

BTW, Q.E.D. and Bricker, Direct Distance Dialing was invented by Bell Labs in 1951, guys. My grandfather barely remembers the age before ten digit phone numbers.

Sorry, I know I’m still technically a youngster, but you guys crack me up :slight_smile:

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Eight tracks.

Using someone else’s airline ticket.

The smoking section on an airliner.

Some states I believe still have deposits on bottles, but not many.

“Clicker” TV remotes.

The milkman.

Drive-in movies.

The Friday at noon air raid siren test.

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You could still place a person-to-person call into the 1970s. And you could bill another number without anyone checking at the time of the call.

Bankers’ hours.

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Ringo, it’s the ‘into the 1970’s’ that I’m referring to.

So, I wouldn’t get it, but there’s a whole generation below me as well.

I mean, my God! I’m only 24! How can there be people who can walk and talk, but don’t remember cassette tapes? I work with a 19 YO who looked at me like I was Grampa McGee, for crying out loud.

My Dad used to watch transformers. Yeah? Well your Dad’s pretty cool you little snot rag. Sorry :slight_smile:

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When my sister was finally able to get my father to go to a movie with her back in the 80s, he told her “Tell the usher we want to sit in the loges so I can smoke”.

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Even-numbered license plates on an odd day - no gas.

When? And why?

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My youngest son asked me what kind of computer I had in school, I said,
“Personal Computers hadn’t been invented yet, we were just getting into calculators”.

The boy, “Calculators?”.

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There are still drive-in movies.

There is one about 30 minutes away from me.

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Which of course brings to mind slide rules.