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Autorantic Virtual Moonbat
Autorantic Virtual Moonbat – Sean Gleeson is a graphic artist and web designer in Oklahoma City.
Older than Dirt?
Test your awareness of cultural change in America. This was sent to me via email. I don’t do email thingies, but in case you like these, here it is. I got a 13 – not quite dirt, but getting there.
Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam.
If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch
c. Next to the horn2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn’t produce milk
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps!5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during W.W.II?
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn’t tell whether it was coming or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a. Strips of dried peanut butter
b. Chocolate licorice bars
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot
c. Long pieces of twine10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts
b. Ask Mom
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940’s?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio12. “I’ll be down to get you in a ________, Honey”
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy’s pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshado w16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window
c. Wrote another pupil’s name on the top, to avoid their failure17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos18. Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?
a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song “Cabdriver” a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
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ANSWERS1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late ’60s to catch on.
2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?
3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top.
4. a) Blackjack Gum.
5. b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.
6. a) 1946 Studebaker.
7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.
8. a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.
9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.
10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
11. c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.
12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
13. c) Macaroni.
14. c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.
15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.
16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.
17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.
18. c) Ammunition, and we’ll all be free.
19. a) The widely famous 50’s group: The Inkspots.
20. a) Tony Bennett
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SCORING17- 20 correct: You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share your wisdom!
12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you’re getting there.
0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.
(Thanks Jacque!)
Belief
I find these quizzes interesting because I’m really a bit of an eclectic in my religious beliefs and practices. How will they peg my path? Not easy. Let’s see… Belief-O-Matic thinks I’m a Neo-Pagan.
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa. Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. Liberal Quakers (93%)
4. Mahayana Buddhism (83%)
5. New Age (83%)
6. Hinduism (80%)
7. Secular Humanism (72%)
8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (70%)
9. Taoism (70%)
10. Theravada Buddhism (67%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (64%)
12. Sikhism (62%)
13. Jainism (62%)
14. Reform Judaism (60%)
15. Bah�’� Faith (59%)
16. Scientology (58%)
17. New Thought (53%)
18. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (47%)
19. Nontheist (43%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (42%)
21. Seventh Day Adventist (39%)
22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (37%)
23. Islam (37%)
24. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (28%)
25. Jehovah’s Witness (27%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (27%)
27. Roman Catholic (27%)
Another quiz at QuizFarm rates me differently – despite the narrative, the scores are tied between Buddhism and Judaism – they say I’m a Buddhist Jew.
You scored as Judaism. Your views are closest to those of Judaism. If you are not a Jew, do more research on Judaism and possibly consider becoming one; however, realize that conversion to Judaism is difficult. Judaism was the first of the Abrahamic faiths; it precedes both Christianity and Islam.
Buddhism
67% Judaism
67% agnosticism
67% Islam
63% Paganism
63% Hinduism
58% Satanism
58% atheism
54% Christianity
46% Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com
Here’s one from ZenHex – I’m a pagan occultist – hee-hee. The quiz itself had me laughing.
Take the quiz: “WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?”
Pagan/Occultist
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Spending your entire life searching various forms of philosophy and religion, you choose to observe everything and believe little. You’re personality is one of truth seeking, nature respecting and god/goddess accepting. Lastly, you don’t judge anyone, but if annoyed, you will exact some form of revenge. You don’t believe in the Three-Fold Law.
401-keg Plan
My Aunt Elaine sent me the following as a bit of humor. I’m not sure how accurate the stats are, but it serves as a little reminder of the possible consequences what I think of as the faith-based retirement plan. Of course, this plan the President is all excited about does nothing at all to fix the social security system itself. If you’d like to invest, go ahead and invest – don’t mess up one of the few things that works pretty well in this country.
Investing for your retirement
If you had purchased $1000.00
of Nortel stock one year ago,
it would now be worth $49.00.With Enron,
you would have had
$16.50
left of the original $1,000.00.With WorldCom,
you would have had less than
$5.00 left.But, if you had purchased $1,000.00
worth of Beer one year ago,
drank all the beer,
then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND,
you would have had
$214.00.Based on the above,
current investment advice is to
drink heavily and
recycle.It’s called the 401-Keg Plan
NaDa
Does nothing and does it very well.
Freeware.
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