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Truman
Harry Truman, when he was U.S President, once addressed the Washington Garden Club and kept referring to 'good manure' that must be used on flowers.
Some society ladies complained (later) to the First Lady Margaret Truman, "Bess, can't you get the President to say fertilizer instead of manure?" The First Lady replied, "Heavens, it took me 25 years to get him to say 'manure'."
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ANSWERS FROM YESTERDAY:
1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch.
Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60s to catch on.
2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who
had a steam iron?
3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and
expand, popping the bottle top.
4. a) Blackjack Gum.
5. b) Special makeup was applied, followed by
drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.
6. a) 1946 Studebaker.
7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet
colored water.
8. a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.
9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which
you wore on a shoestring around your neck.
10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.
11. c) Polio. At the beginning of August,
swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.
12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!
13. c) Macaroni.
14. c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your
head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.
15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was
another puppet.
16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a
high.
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 widely famous 50's group: The
Inkspots.
20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good
today..
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SCORING
17 - 20 correct: You are older than dirt, and
obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you
could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who
should share their wisdom!
12 - 16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind
is getting keen.
0 - 11 correct: You are not old enough to share the
wisdom of your experiences.
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Thanks to J & G B -- Another one to offend just about everyone... :)
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