The ultimate Boomer memory test

Facebook was founded to enable Harvard students to keep in touch. Within a few years, it had evolved into a tool that allowed young people worldwide to stay in touch. Today, its purpose is to allow Boomers, when not busy posting photos of their grandchildren, to post pictures of obsolete gizmos like foot dimmer switches, Tupperware popsicle trays, rotary phones and drive-in movie speakers and ask their fellow old farts if they remember them.

No wonder Facebook stock is in the toilet.

I don't know about you but I'm tired of being reminded every time I log on to Facebook that I’m older than Methuselah. So here, for all you fans of the “do you remember this?” genre is what I hope will become the ultimate (e.g. last) test of its type. To make it easy – I know you’re old and your memory may need a jog -- I’ve given you a choice of answers under each photo.

1. Betcha you remember this, don't you? Of course you do! 

( ) Highlights for Children character, Gallant

( ) Page from a reading primer
( ) Comic book

( ) VD awareness poster


2, What are these school children doing?

( ) Listening to a Yoko Ono album

( ) Practicing for Armageddon

( ) Hiding from sniper

( ) Being taught evolution in a Christian school


3. You get heap-um of hoorays if you know what this is.

( ) Cover of Big Chief writing tablet

( ) Lid of box of popular children’s game, "Injun Joe"

( ) Plastic “punch out” 33 rpm record, 10 Little Indians, that was free inside specially-marked boxes of Sugar Pops 

( ) A test pattern TV stations broadcast when they were off the air


4. Who was the sponsor of the TV show that starred these fellas?

( ) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

( ) Lutheran Church

( ) Purina

( ) Church of Scientology

5. All we are saying ... is what the heck is this?

( ) Logo of the car Janis beseeched the Lord to buy her
( ) Peace sign
( ) '67 GTO steering wheel
( ) Logo of the company whose theme song was, "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star..." 

6. Any woman selected "Queen for a Day" had to have what in order to win?

( ) A large rack

( ) Superior domestic skills

( ) Perfect posture
( ) A miserable life

7. We read all about this guy in the Weekly Reader. What was he saying? 

( ) If the shoe fits, you must acquit

( ) These f#@&*g flies are driving me nuts
( ) We will bury you
( ) I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet

8. Yummy yummy yummy!  This is a flavor of what?

( ) Boone's Farm

( ) Welch's Jam

( ) Lik-M-Aid
( ) Borden's Milk

9. What did millions of Boomers ingest using one of these? 

( ) LSD
( ) Polio vaccine
( ) Both of the above
( ) My grandkid is sitting on my lap and can read so let's move on, OK?

10. Memories are made of this. What is it?

( ) '63 Plymouth 318 V8 air cleaner
( ) Roulette wheel
( ) Kodak slide tray
( ) IBM Selectric type ball

11. Oh, the memories. Now, if I could only remember what it is!  Do you?

( ) Electronic insemination device

( ) Writing instrument

( ) Christmas tree light

( ) Elroy Jetson’s pacifier


12. Last but not least, what in the heck is this funny looking thing?

( ) Toy with which you can do many tricks, including “walk the dog”

( ) What your children insist you wear around your neck to summon help if you fall

( ) Vanilla Oreo with a string on it which makes no sense but then, not much makes sense when you're my age 

( ) Something you wear around finger so you won’t forget to log on to Facebook to see what obsolete thing your friends want to know if you remember