Fifty Plus (50+) - Enough!! We Need A <50+ Admission Test

ENOUGH!! WE NEED A <50+ ADMISSI
ON TEST

Those <50 who enter the forum (present company excepted, of course) should pass some sort of admissions test to be sure they are properly prepared and of the right mind and attitude for the 50+ Forum.

Herein we will accumulate a series of questions designed to measure just that.

Please post your questions here so they can be assembled into an exam so we can be sure the prospective <50+'ers are fully prepared to participate.

1. How many grand kids you have at present?

Do you remember the 60s? (it is a trick question of course)

How did the Vietnam war started?

Uh-oh. This is gonna be somethin'. :rolleyes:


Do you remember the first color television you or your family had?

Do you remember when only theaters and grocery stores were air-conditioned? And everyone else had ceiling or rotating fans?

Place these in the proper order:

1. Frozen vegetables

2. 10 speed bicycles

3. The Interstate Highway system

4. Bay of Pigs

Do you remember when only theaters and grocery stores were air-conditioned? And everyone else had ceiling or rotating fans?

Say What? I think you failed the test. :eek:

All we had were hand fans one used in church. :)

What were you doing when JFK was shot? Minus 10 points if you didn't exist...

Frozen vegs. interstate. 10 speeds. Bay of Pigs, that order

Who is Diego Garcia?

Say What? I think you failed the test. :eek:

All we had were hand fans one used in church. :)

Explain how to make a hand fan from a sheet of paper...

Red Baron, I wasn't thinking of a church as a commercial establishment. Here in NC, hand-held fans were all that existed, too. And all the ladies wore hats and gloves.

Have you ever handplanted tobacco off of a sled pulled along by a tractor?

What were you doing when JFK was shot? Minus 10 points if you didn't exist...

I was at an LBS, deciding between a Raleigh and a Frejus. I ended-upwith a Roll Fast.

Given a choice, would you post to the 50+ forum:

1. A serious thread about bicycling

2. A funny thread about bicycling

3. A request for a grocery list?

Red Baron, I wasn't thinking of a church as a commercial establishment. Here in NC, hand-held fans were all that existed, too. And all the ladies wore hats and gloves.

Have you ever handplanted tobacco off of a sled pulled along by a tractor?

I have hand planted teak seedlings from a crate I carried 1 kilometers up hill - does that count?

Which is the best bicycle phrase:

"Jes Sayin"

or

"Word?"

All threads in the 50+ forum must devolve into:

1. Pie!
2. Digital Gee pondering a new bike
3. Grandkids
4 All the above

:(

Do step-grandkids count? :o And having to put on +2's from the drugstore to eat dinner in a low-light restaurant?

I don't have grandkids but it is my kids fault- they are plenty OLD enough to have kids. Of course, I am not old enough yet to be a grandfather which might explain the delay...

The goal of 50+ bicycling is:

1. To get to the other side

2. To write funny things on the 50+ forum

3. To get your picture in the Rogue's Gallery

or

4. All of the above.

Pshaw - you are disqualified DnverFox, a careful reading of the archives will tell you that the real goal is to not fall over in front of a pretty girl when you first start using clipless pedals. ;)

I don't have grandkids but it is my kids fault- they are plenty OLD enough to have kids. Of course, I am not old enough yet to be a grandfather which might explain the delay...
Pffbbbt! *snort* Sorry, I just coughed some prune juice through my nose. CRTD, you have several years on me, and I'm old enough to be a grandmother! :rolleyes: You're not naggin' hard enough. :p

Everyone here know who Don Budge was? :rolleyes:

Pffbbbt! *snort* Sorry, I just coughed some prune juice through my nose. CRTD, you have several years on me, and I'm old enough to be a grandmother! :rolleyes: You're not naggin' hard enough. :p

I will consider it a major compliment that I made you snort prune juice...

And now that I think about it - drinking prune juice probably is a qualifier for the group...

Well, yeah. You're kinda defeatin' the purpose of it, having me snort it like that. :mad: :p

Speaking of grocery lists, I need to run do a major shopping. AND sea scallops are on sale! I'm going to get some and pop 'em on the grill this evening. :)

Uh-oh. This is gonna be somethin'. :rolleyes:


Do you remember the first color television you or your family had?

What's this color television:D The first ones were black & white. If you wanted color you simply put a sheet of colored film over the screen:D

1. How many grand kids you have at present?

Do we get to bypass the admission test if we have great grandkids?

What's this color television:D The first ones were black & white. If you wanted color you simply put a sheet of colored film over the screen:D
Well, I clearly remember the black and whites, though not those rinky-dink tiny ones with the roundish screens. If this is a test for <50, we surely can't go back to the invention of vacuum tubes! :p

I do remember asking the TV repairman who came to set it up for us if we could still get the three channels that we had on the B&W! :eek: This very old man, Mr. Small, just chuckled and promised me I wouldn't miss a thing, and that I'd love the new set (a MONSTER console). :)

Everyone here know who Don Budge was? :rolleyes:



I used to have one of his tennis rackets!

Have you ever used an outhouse, chamberpot, or pumped fresh well-water in a house with no plumbing and no phone?

Have you ever caught rainwater off a tin roof in a barrel for hair-washing? Makes for very soft hair. :)

I used to have one of his tennis rackets!
Yay! <clappin' hands>

How funny, I was going to post something like this earlier... :)

How many times do you need to get up during the night?

Have you ever used an outhouse, chamberpot, or pumped fresh well-water in a house with no plumbing and no phone?

Have you ever caught rainwater off a tin roof in a barrel for hair-washing? Makes for very soft hair. :)

Outhouse - when we got one with a REAL white seat it was pure luxury.

Our well water usually wasn't.

We turned the generator on at 8:00 am, and turned it off at 8:00 pm.

The tent houses were well ventilated - lots of holes.

We fired off the boiler for hot water - once a week, whether we needed it or not.

At times we had propane lights and a propane refrigerator.

Or, we used to have a REAL ice box - oak, and an iceman.

Sounds like a barracks?

Do you understand the concept of depression-style cookin'?

Can you use a canner?

Have you ever ridden, Al Capone-style, on the runnin' board of a '38 Plymouth? Which was cow-pie brown, by the way. :rolleyes:

Sounds like a barracks?

A variety of living situation during my life. As a kid at a camp in the mountains with real crank phone and no commercial electricity. Summers in various locations as my dad was a park ranger in Sequoia and Yosemite (where our "well" water turned out to be polluted). As a ranger and fire lookout myself, where one summer my wife and I were at an isolated cabin with no electricity, mice all over the place, and another before I was married at another remote cabin where three of us firefighters lived two summers in old navy temporary cabins with walls a full one-quarter inch thick. Also as a camp counselor where everyone stayed in tent houses, etc.

What is the surest way to ruin a Brooks saddle?

And I thought I had all the fun at my grandparents' house (hand-built by my grandfather from an old army barracks he bought right after the war, and had brought over to Wilmington, NC, from Ft. Fisher) every summer.

On the other side of the family, used to visit my great-grandparents out in the middle of tobacco country. Flat. Hot. Humid. And I loved every minute, chasin' the pigs, running with the dogs, playin' army in the fields, climbin' on the old farm equipment (non-motorized, for my great-grandfather had quit driving his old 50's tractor in favor of his old mule and plow).

When did this become the nostalgia thread? <curious and dreamy Vega look>

:eek: <lookin' at watch>

I need to go to the store! Back in a bit! Keep 'em comin'! :)

What part of a pig did your grandmother throw away? (trick question)

The goal of 50+ bicycling is:

1. To get to the other side

2. To write funny things on the 50+ forum

3. To get your picture in the Rogue's Gallery

or

4. All of the above.

All of the above, of course. ;)

Too easy! Any <50 poser can figure that one. Try again, DF.

This is all well and good, but it doesn't answer my question: which bike should I buy?

1. How many grand kids you have at present?

that's only if you're a spawner...

better:

1. What's a DINK?

Dnvr-you are on one heck of a roll in this thread. Keep 'em coming.

Was it your job to bust the little color capsule in the margarine to make it yellow:)

Do you still instinctively refer to Ali as Clay?

Does the fizz of Alka Selzer still excite you about the possibilities of the future?

If you're a guy, does the phrase, "The Noxema Girl" arouse you?

How many gears does a 10 speed have? Hint; the answer is not 20 or 30.