“I had heard that she had been killed in a car crash, but I did not really understand at that age exactly what that meant. I was more than slightly taken aback when the camera panned across Doodyville and alighted upon – a puppet. ‘My God! she turned into a puppet!’, I thought. To this day, I wonder what they were thinking. Maybe they thought we wouldn’t notice. I did. I noticed right away.”
16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get “high.”
**Equally sharp-eyed reader, Rich Hovey, says:
“For the record — The purple ink wasn’t exactly ink (more like a carbon paper released from a backing by the strong-smelling fluid) and wasn’t from a mimeograph machine — it was from a Ditto machine. The Ditto replaced the black-ink mimeograph for most teacher-produced worksheets during the ’50s and ’60s I believe. The mimeograph hung in there a while for printing longer runs of material usually to be distributed to all students in the school.”
***And reader, Mark Kornmann, suggested that two other answers would be appropriate:
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 failure
Mark noted, “This question previously appeared with “Mimeographed” instead of “ditto-mastered”. Mimeograph ink most often was black, & copies made via that process did not have the telltale “olic” chemical odor of the purple dittoes. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph, then click on the ditto-master link down the page for the skinny.
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 all-male, all-black group, The Inkspots.
20. a) Tony Bennett and he sounds just as good today.
“OLDER THAN DIRT” SCORING
17 – 20 correct: You are not only older than dirt but obviously gifted with mind bloat. Now if you could only find your glasses.
12 – 16 correct: Not quite older than dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy.
0 – 11 correct: You are a sad excuse for a geezer. Redeem yourself by declaring to everyone that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
Want more “Older Than Dirt” Geezer Test?
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