Daily Dirt: Do you qualify as a boomer? This may help …

Daily Dirt for Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024

The item that really reminded me of yesteryear is the note about the Styrofoam packaging at McDonald’s … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,128 of The Daily Dirt.

1. One of our boomer readers sent me a clip that I thought was pretty entertaining. It deals with determining if you qualify as a boomer. You’re definitely a boomer if you have utilized half or more of the following:

• Did you ever play music using an 8-track player?
• Did you ever buy a .45 RPM record? (I still remember the first four I purchased on a Friday afternoon in the fall of 1966, including “Devil With a Blue Dress” by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and “Open Up Your Door” by Richard and the Young Lions.)
• Have you ever eaten ambrosia salad or an elaborate Jell-O dessert?
• Did you ever “make ice” using an aluminum ice-cube tray?
• Did you ever listen to music or a ball game on a transistor radio?
• Did you ever use a pay phone inside a telephone booth?
• Did you use a rotary phone when growing up?
• Did you ever look up a phone number in an actual phone book?
• Did you ever have a TV set that only had dials and no remote?
• Did you ever drink a cola out of a glass bottle?
• Did you ever use a “Brannock Device” when buying new shoes?
• Did you ever buy colored toilet paper or use a bathroom that featured such a thing?
• Have you ever been sent a fax?
• Did you ever use a typewriter?
• Did you ever eat at McDonald’s when they served your food in those Styrofoam boxes?

Ahh … good times and some sweet memories, except for that colored toilet paper.

2. Did you ever wonder (Part 203) …

• If you clean a vacuum cleaner, wouldn’t you actually be a vacuum cleaner?
• If a deaf person has to go to court, is it actually still called a hearing?
• If you work in a tea factory, do you still get coffee breaks?
• If you are not supposed to eat at night, then why is there a light in the fridge?
• It’s kind of strange we call it a hamburger when it’s made of beef.

3. Some of life’s deepest questions have been on my medal-worthy mind this weekend: 

• Gold medal: If a No. 2 pencil is the most popular, then why is it still No. 2?
• Silver medal: Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
• Bronze medal: If the early bird catches the worm, then why are we told that good things come to those wait?

Steve Thought O’ The Day
To this day, whenever I watch a Chicago Bears game or even think about the team, my first thought is about Gale Sayers … and the second is always about “Brian’s Song.”

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. He still pines for the days when he could play his 8-tracks and .45 RPM records.