BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 09:33 AM

re: question #19.
Didn't the Mills Brothers sing "Cab Driver"?
          Not The Ink Spots

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: PoppaGator
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 01:57 PM

I got 19, since I didn't even guess at the "Cabdriver" question. Now I see that the answer to that one has become a matter of controversy anyway; that is, the quiz-writer may not have gotten it right, either.

I'm younger than some of y'all: by the time I was old enough to work legally and officially for the Federal minimum wage, it was all the way up to $1.25. I bagged groceries. Only girls were allowed to run the cash registers; boys worked as baggers and occasionally ran out to the parking lot to collect shopping carts.

I remember the price of gas staying at around thirty-some-odd cents for years, both before and (briefly) after I began to drive myself.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 03:15 PM

My first real job was also grocering for $1.25, including making milkshakes and serving cones at the icecream counter; followed by gas-station handy boy at the same rate. Learned to fix tires, change oil, pump gas and clean windshields. I got my first letter of recommendation from that jobm citing me as a "fast man at the island", something that has served me well exactly nowhere. The gas station owner loved to talk about his male parts. I was distinctly uininterested in them (perhaps because I was enthralled by my own at that age).

A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 05:29 PM

The test is rigged. I got 18 correct and I'll be 36 on Monday...

My first job was at a grocery store for $4.25/hour and I remember gas at $.99/gallon. I don't know WTF the rest of you are talking about which just proves the test is more trivia than memory. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: DonD
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 10:35 PM

I don't believe that Blackjack gum was named after a game of chance (which we called '21'). I think it originated sometime around WWI and honored General John J. Pershing who was known as 'Blackjack', and the gum itself was black and licorice flavored.

My fond memory as a ten- or eleven-year-old in The Bronx (always capitalize the T in The!) was when the 'gang' could each save up a quarter each, and on a Saturday, we'd take the subway to Times Square to wander around. A nickel each way for the train, a dime for a hot dog (with a free root beer) and a nickel to spend 'foolishly'. A favorite pastime was to hang around the burlesque joints ogling the pictures of the strippers outside until the doorman/barker would rasp, "Hey, you kids, come back in ten years!"

I'll just hum 'The Bard of Armagh' and toddle off to bed.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 10:41 PM

On the quiz that led off this thread, I scored a 17 (took it a few years back). I missed Princess Summerfall Winterspring because I never saw the Howdy Doody Show, except once or twice by accident. I was in college when it first appeared on television (!!).

Never heard about the purple ink thing. And I only vaguely remembered the Cabdriver song and couldn't recall who had done it.

The family car was a Packard (we had five of them over time, from boxy in 1935 to pretty sleek in 1954) before they sold out to Studebaker. That was back in the days when you could tell what make a car was just by looking at it from a distance. Great cars.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 10:21 AM

"It's Howdy Doody time,
It's Howdy Doody time,
It's time to start the show,
So kids let's go."

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: GUEST,B-Western Fan
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 11:06 AM

"Ok, so my memory is fading. Maybe it wasn't the Cisco Kid. Then who was Chito, Jose' Gonzales, Bustamante Rafferty?"

Chico Jose Gonzales Bustamante Rafferty was Tim Holt's sidekick.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 11:08 AM

Kicked him in the side once a day, faithfully . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: 'Think You're a Geezer??' Exam! (US)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 12:05 PM

I don't geeze as much as I used to