# What questions would expose a youngster? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544 "2003-08-02T14:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/61 "2003-08-03T03:24:30Z")
**tomndebb** answered. The airbags are not as important as the (back then rare) seat belts. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/62 "2003-08-03T03:26:32Z")
Re: postal zones: > [@](#): > > Elvis Presley: > “Return to sender – address unknown – no such number – no such zone…” skate keys the skinny kid at the beach getting sand kicked in his face _True Confessions_ magazines and romantic comic books Twinky Dink Hoppy (Hop-a-long) Cho-cho ice cream (Have any of you older kids heard of it?) crank phones wedding night jitters Pinky Lee Soupy Sales Peter Pan collars sweater guards mouton jackets angora tie-on collars bobby socks and bobby pins “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing…” BTW, you are a “youngster” if you are old enough to be my child. 44 qualifies, but just barely. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/63 "2003-08-03T03:31:17Z")
Duck and cover Lucky Strike’s “Your Hit Parade” Heck, Lucky Strikes! Winky Dink “Are you now, or have you ever been,…” When people took seriously the referent of **AskNott** ’s nick. Togetherness “Only her hairdresser knows for sure!” I like Ike! “It was a one-eyed, one-horned…” “Put your head on my shoulder” “See you later, alligator!” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/64 "2003-08-03T04:59:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ringo \* > **L.S.M.F.T** “ **L** et’s **S** crew, **M** y **F** inger’s **T** ired!” Bwahahahaha! 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/65 "2003-08-03T05:49:53Z")
Pop bottles. I got a new album. Does that car burn regular or ethyl? Put another nickle in the jukebox. Wasn’t the Ed Sullivan show great? Maybe your caborator needs to be rebuilt. Do you have a transister radio I can borrow? The Lone Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/66 "2003-08-03T05:51:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\*“ **L** et’s **S** crew, **M** y **F** inger’s **T** ired!” > > Bwahahahaha! 😉 > > Q \*\* Loose Straps Make Flappy Tits heh 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/67 "2003-08-03T12:01:35Z")
L.S.M.F.T. = Lord Save Me From Truman ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/68 "2003-08-03T14:34:16Z")
_originally posted by **Boyo** _ \*\*Rob Petrie was the character played by Dick Van Dyke in the original Dick Van Dyke Show. His wife Laura was played by Mary Tyler Moore, the first female character on TV allowed to wear pants! \*\* IIRC, Lucy Ricardo also wore pants (as did her wacky side-kick Ethel Mertz) occasionally. One outfit I was particularly partial to involved peg-legged pants and dark top worn with a fitted to the waist then flowing duster. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/69 "2003-08-03T16:45:06Z")
Lest we forget, before Mr. Van Dyke became famous, he was known as **Penis Van Lesbian**! 😉 (Old joke. Wonder if Dick knows about it?) Oh, and **Grit** newspapers! (used to sell those to save up money for band camp!) Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/70 "2003-08-03T16:50:59Z")
Kinda off-topic here, but I have these dreams every now and then of me walking into my 60’s high school classroom with a laptop under my arm and a cell phone/discman clipped to my belt and either becoming an instant hit or being burned alive. Doesn’t make much sense, I know, but I’ve always been a big fan of time travel! Now back to your regularly-scheduled thread. Q ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/71 "2003-08-03T17:25:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ringo \* > \*\*And before copiers (for a long time generically known as a xerox machine) became affordable, we had mimeographs. \*\* Oo! Was that the thing that put purpley-blue ink on newsprinty paper? We loved sniffing the fresh ones back in the first grade for the alcohol smell. Used to drive our teacher nuts – “stop sniffing the quiz!” I’m going to add: 1. Mini-juice cans (i.e. smaller than a can of soda) with the pull tabs. My mom used to get those for road trips, so to this day warm Allen’s apple juice makes me think “going to Grandma’s!” 2. Manual typewriters (non-electric) 3. Lite-Brite ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/72 "2003-08-03T17:34:38Z")
Oo! Oo! I thought of another one: “Pumping your own gas” literally meaning to crank that handle thing on the pump at the gas station. (Back when the pumps looked kind of like tall gumball machines.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/73 "2003-08-03T19:08:50Z")
Holy shit - could somebody post something that I _don’t_ recognize so I can feel less like an old fart? And I thought it was LS/MFT. “Lucky Strike green has gone to…” And as an old MIS type, I can remember the excitement of not having to use the card punch machines for my program deck. Cripes, I am old. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/74 "2003-08-03T20:16:27Z")
Everyone keeps mentioning Luckies, so we should also mention: “Winston tastes good like a [clap clap] cigarette should.” \*And following the outcry of offended grammarians over the use of “like” in the preceding, we then had \* “I’d rather fight than switch” ```auto pack or box You've got a lot to like with a Marlboro, filter, flavor / \ flip-top box ``` Heck, _any_ cigarette commercial on television in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/75 "2003-08-03T21:28:47Z")
Hey, **tomndebb** - Show us your Lark! Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/76 "2003-08-03T21:33:11Z")
More 70s stuff (which I thought was the point of the OP) Just give me the punch card from the book, and I’ll check you out. Thanks for coming to the library. Well excuuuuuuuuuse me!! Kiss my grits! You meathead! Well, if a peanut farmer can become president… What did the president know, and when did he know it? Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice… Ooooh, Evel Knievel is on tv next week. I love that decal on them Trans Ams. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/77 "2003-08-03T23:27:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > **"Winston tastes good like a [clap clap] cigarette should."** “ **Had _oughtta_** ” - Granny Clampett of _The Beverly Hillbillies_. Q ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/78 "2003-08-04T01:14:14Z")
Magazine ads indicating that 9 out of 10 Doctors surveyed preferred Chesterfield. Fred and Barney on the Flintstones puffing Winston cigarettes. Priming the pump on the back porch. Gapping points with a matchbook cover. Paregoric over the counter without a scrip. Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie! Sally Starr, Gene London, and Pixanne (Phila natives should know these names) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/79 "2003-08-04T02:30:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by danceswithcats \* > Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie! I’m old enough to remember hearing this, but can’t remember where. Care to enlighten me? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544/80 "2003-08-04T02:47:23Z")
Musicat, that may have been _The Smiling Ed McConnell Show_. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. Is that the same program where we heard, “This is my dog Tige – he lives in a shoe. My name is Buster Brown. Look for me in there too”? Polycarp, I can’t believe someone else remembers Winky Dink! Did you have one of those plastic thingies to put over the TV screen to draw on? Anyone remember dancing Old Gold cigarette boxes? One of them was Grace Kelly. > [@](#): > > **Quasimodem** : Oh, and Grit newspapers! (used to sell those to save up money for band camp!) I still have a couple of old Grit newspaper bags! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-questions-would-expose-a-youngster/192544.md?page=5)