Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

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  1. whaap

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    If you went to a baseball game you would wear a suit.
     
  2. Dave.0

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    When MINI's where small.
     
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    When cars had dipsticks for the fuel tank.
     
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    And the temperature gauge was in the radiator cap.
     
  5. 00Mini

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    When your vehicle accelerated your windshield wipers slowed down.
     
  6. Dave.0

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    When the only color you could buy a car in was Black.
     
  7. CHKMINI

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    That's good for me!!
     
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    When rainbows lit up the skies in the daylight... Just say'n.
     
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    Yer almost older'n dirt if that makes you think of Grace Slick.
     
  10. Dave.0

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    They still do here. Sounds like you have a SMOG issue. :lol:
     
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    High/low beam switch on the floor. Oh, and a separate pedal for reverse.
     
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    Turn signals hadn't been invented.
     
  13. 00Mini

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    There were no traffic lights.
     
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    When I learned to drive, cars had not been invented... But neither had dirt. So there....
     
  15. DryMartini

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    When your TV broke and a repair man came to your house and started changing vacuum tubes to fix it. (Of course, he never had the right one in the truck with him.)
     
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    Funny! You're really older than dirt if no one knew what a t.v. was. :wink:
     
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    You went to the supermarket, with a bag of tubes to use their tube tester, to fix your own TV.
     
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    ... if you can remember cigarette ads airing on the TV. (For those who can't, they used to run about as many ads for cigarettes as they do for ED pills now.) :eek:
     
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    Show us your Lark!
     
  20. 00Mini

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    Julie London and Winstons
     

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