What's 'er age? Find out!
 

Ever wonder who you're talking to? Here a simple yet scientific method to find out. Ask the person if he or she has ever studied film. If the answer is, yes, then this test will not work. If the answer is, no, then the test will be accurate five or take a couple of years. Ask the question, who is your favourite James Bond actor. And when they tell you, you'll have your answer.

Ok Frank,

Have you ever studied film?

And who is your favourite James Bond actor?

Yes. Sean, of course.

Frank Granovski is 61 years old.

"50..., and counting..." ---You Only Live Twice :-))

My wife recently acquired a classic bakelite rotary phone from the 20's for her desk.

Our son walked in and looked at it.

"Is this a real phone?"

Yup, I said.

"How do you call on it?"

He had literally, never dialed a phone.

He's 21.

I watched sesamestreet on a black & white TV. Hey, at least
I didn't grow up with mobile phones and internet. Anyone
remembers a BBS? <g>

im 16 and happy lol

Up until I was 12, we had a "party line" connection. And that was in a city. Boy did I have fun. Ring ring. Yes? Is Wall there? Who? Wall. Nobody by that name here. Then what the H_ll is holding up your roof?! Slam! :-))

Met a lot of the fairer ones with that phone...blind dates so to speak. (kids will be kids.)

don't feel bad...........
 

My friends 5 year old son asked me one day if he could listen to some of my "big CD's".

It took me a while to figure out that he wanted to check out my old vinyl record albums <;~)

I actually grew up listening to radio dramas and comedies. I used to laugh like heck during Jack Benny, and get the creeps when
'I was a Comunist for the FBI' came on.
I got to watch John Barrymore Sr. as the wheel chaired Dr Gillespie and Dagwood/Blondie every week at the local Yalova Cinema. Movies were 25cents for a double feature on Saturdays.
and BTW, there was no Television to watch.

Guess how old I am...

68?

I can remember as a kid, watching B&W TV shows where people used rotary dial phones. I wondered whethere we were ahead of the times or behind, since all we had to do was pick up the phone handset and tell the operator what number we wanted to call. And better yet, it was only a four digit number!

When our small community finally upgraded the phone service and received rotary dial phones, I learned the painful truth. This small community was only 20 miles from Houston, TX, and I'm only 55 (or is it 57).

>>68?<<
Not even close.

47

in the late 60s I lived in Turkey at Karamursel Air Station and we had no TV so the local American station played radio serials from the 30s and 40s. The Base theater was 25cents admission.
The Yalova Cinema was a free American movie house in the town of Yalova where my family lived for awhile. They had all sorts of movies from the 30s and 40s and 50s they would show every week, plus lots of spaghetti westerns (My Name is Trinity, comes to mind). Still freaks really old people out that I know about that stuff.

In the late 70s when I lived in West Germany, AFRTS was still broadcasting those radio serials. Got to listen to the original GunSmoke with William Conrad.

One other benefit to no TV, I read quite a bit and was two years ahead of my peers when I returned to the states. Say lots of horrer and comedy flicks, plus saw 2001 Space Odessy on the big screen. After that I was hooked on scifi.

This morning, after I had less than 5 hours of sleep, I discovered a new way to determine 'er age. Look in the mirror. :-))

ha,you guys are old..
BUt they say knowledge comes with age lol..

note-the you guys are old was not meant to harm.

I've said it before...
I'm so old I can remember when Disney had an original idea.

Of course repeating ones self is also sign of growing old.

lol

I can remember nickel beer on fridays in the mens mess at RCAF Station Winnipeg (Frankville). When i joined the army at 16, I was paid the princely sum of $58 a month. Women weren't allowed in a bar without an escort.

SOo..how many people had to walk umpteen miles in 5 feet of snow to school and back.lol

I did, but I didn't have to. I was in to extracise.

<<<-- Originally posted by Frank Granovski : I did, but I didn't have to. I was in to extracise. -->>>

Frank, most of the time it was too cold for snow. a brisk walk to school in -40 to -50 deg F was invigorating. We didn't have school buses in the Peg

You went to Gorden. That was only a 4 block walk from your house. :-))

I went to boarding school for 5 years. I had to walk down 2 flights of stairs and up a couple of hallways to the classroom, after J_wish mass. I still can't forgive my parents, but then they paid for it, not me.

Frank
You must have gone to St Myron's, you must be 50 or 51 years old. St Myron's was the only Cath**c/J***sh school in Winnipeg. I Remember every morning at assembly they'd sing OyVey Maria.

That's the one. I recall my brother getting his mouth washed out with soap there once (or twice), by "Sister Grade 2." Another time she punched me in the kisser because I was laughing (at her).

And, you know, in that boarding school nuns did always travel in pairs, but the odd time they traveled in 3s, which I believe was so one could keep watch. This is where I learned how to eat fast and develop my boarding house reach. Bryan, you know why they travel in pairs, don't you?

No Frank, pray tell us, why do Nuns travel in pairs?

No one has guessed my age yet.

Nickle beer at the wets was a good deal. For 50-60cents you could get sh!tfaced. There was always a Molsons or Labatts sales rep that would buy you a beer or two. the tobacco companies and the breweries took care of the troops big time.

They'd walk up and say"what beer do you drink son?" It was always what they were representing ;-) Anymore war stories and I'll have to get my helmet. A fellow could get shell shocked.

Why do nuns always travel in pairs? To make sure the other nun doesn't get none.

None of what?

Now why do I feel used ;-)

It's what you see on City TV Friday nights or what everyone wants on, "Lexx." It also rhymes with the name of that strange space show. I ain't sayin' no mo'.

How old do you have to be to have had an 8-Track player in your car? And how about one of those 45-rpm record players that pulled out from below the dash? This was once the only type of pre-recorded, portable music.

I've got an 8-track recorder/player on my editing desk right now, with VU meters and dual level-controls. And I use it every day! So how old must I be to even want to do that?

I learned the very useful and highly sought-after skill of being able to re-string by hand, 8-Track tapes that had gotten de-tracked (and they said it couldn't be done!). I never realized how many friends I had, until they discovered I could do this. Now, this is all a lost art and my talent is on the scrap heap. P.S.---I've got a quadraphonic 8-Track recorder that I think is a neater gadget than any of my newer toys and I got it for $2. at St. Vinnie's.

Steve McDonald

I remember THE OTHER spiderman song from the electric company live action shorts.

How old am I ? :)


" spiderman,
where are you coming from
spiderman,
Nobody knows who you are. "

Steve wrote >...And how about one of those 45-rpm record players that pulled out from below the dash? This was once the only type of pre-recorded, portable music...<

What a great concept... I never saw one of those in the UK... Would have been a bitch to balance a 2shilling (50cent in your case I guess) coin on the arm with a jumpy track though!!

And that's never a lost art if you remember it, one day we'll need these skills again, though maybe modified versions of them!