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Here is a test for us ‘old kids’! The answers are printed below, but don’t cheat.

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.

02.When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on The_______________ Show.

03′Get your kicks,__________________.’

04.’The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to_________________.’

05.’In the jungle, the mighty jungle,___________.’

06. After the Twist,The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the ‘_____________.’

07. Nestle’s makes the very best …..___________.’

08.Satchmo was America ’s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was_________________.

09.What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?_______________.

10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named__________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good Night, and ‘_______________. ‘
11.Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.

12.The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in t he front was called the VW. What other names did it go by?____________ &_______________.

13.In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a tribute to___________________.

14.We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit.. The Russians did it. It was called___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the________________.

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ANSWERS:
01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02.. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, TheFreeloader and ‘Good Night and God Bless.’
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop 

How many of you got all 15 right.  If you did – you’re older than dirt.

How about 14?

The old “Across My Desk – Nancy’s web log” is no longer online.   I haven’t been able to blog on it since last July or August so I just decided to start all over again with “Nancy Stine – Across my Desk”.Hope you will visit me there.

Nancy

Original magazine ads of your favorite car, truck, motorcycle and tractor of the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s and the 80s.

Big 20%  sale – Every item in my eBay store!

http://stores.ebay.com/Nans-Vintage-Treasures

Turkey singing I will survive.

See if you can pull it up yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=501sNcmrwGQ

Sorry I didn’t get this on yesterday – or earlier!  I was ill.

Here is a story I ran across in my meanderings across the internet.  It is hilarious.  Maybe some of you readers can relate.

taken from AC ASSOCIATED CONTENT

By Judy Maxwell, published Dec 20, 2006

Judy was born and raised in the Metro-Detroit area. Judy has been married for 35+ years and has 5 children and 9 gandchildren. Judy is currently working from home but her background is in banking. With over 22,000 page views, writing for AC is an exciting avenue for her.

Education/Experience: 54 years of life

Interests: Bible, nutrition, recovery, fitness, writing, reading, gardening, grandbabies!

Motto: A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Affiliations: Today’s Best- My Yahoo 360 page, The Detroit Church, Spark People- Make Life An Adventure!

URL http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/34306/judy_maxwell.html

RSS http://www.associatedcontent.com/rss/user_34306.xml

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A few years back, I decided to make an “investment” in some of the best cookware known, at least by me. At the time I was involved in an Internet Business called Quixtar that sold thousands of products. Most of the products claimed to be the best of any available.

I made my “investment” in Amway’s Queen Cookware by purchasing several pieces. Although the name has been changed to iCook Products, in this article I will refer to it as Amway Queen Cookware as it was named when I made my purchase. The Amway Queen Cookware is described with words like premium-quality, precision-engineered construction, surgical grade stainless steel, contains chromium (prevents rust) and seals in vitamins and minerals. I believe it boasts that because it is (close to being??) waterless cookware. This Amway Queen Cookware is perfect for the health conscientious person. Amway’s Queen Cookware is made in the USA. The name Queen Cookware might suggest that it is designed to accommodate a Queen. But I am not exactly feeling like a “queen for a day” contestant today.

True, I have owned this Queen Cookware for about 7 years, and I can attest to the fact that my “investment” is serving me well. This Queens Cookware looks almost as new as the day I bought it.

So what possible problem could I have with such wonderful Queen Cookware?

Today, as I do every day, I took out my 2 qt. Amway Queens sauce pan. I measured my 1 cup of filtered water. I added my ½ tsp of cinnamon, a pinch of Celtic salt, and ½ cup of oatmeal and let it cook. Since I do not use instant oatmeal, the directions say, cook for 5 minutes, than shut it off and let it set. While my oatmeal was setting, I sliced my banana and gently stirred in my organic egg for protein. Everything was ready to stir into my oatmeal.

Walking over to my stove with my sliced banana and egg mixture, I tried to lift the lid off my ‘porridge’. The lid was stuck. What?? Setting my egg and banana mixture down, I proceed to take both hands to remove the lid from Amway’s Queen Cookware. It would not budge.

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As I said, this happened once before. The first time it happened, I had chicken livers in it. Now today,I began having flashbacks of the day the scummy chicken water from my chicken livers was oozing out of the pan and down the sides, making a ‘glue’ under the lid.

I panicked. I tried everything I knew to get that lid off. I ran the whole pot under hot water. I tried to pry the lid off with a knife. I poured bleach around the seal of the lid hoping it would penetrate the scummy chicken water. Nothing worked. I considered throwing the sauce pan in the garbage. There was no way I could do that. Have you ever seen the price of one of those Amway Queen sauce pan?

Now I was in a dilemma. I couldn’t use the sauce pan the way it was, and I couldn’t throw my “investment” away. So finding myself between a rock and a hard place, I let it sit there, uh……. for about 3 days. Finally a light-bulb went on in my head. I figured that cookware as expensive as Amway’s Queen Cookware would have some sort of warranty. I quickly retrieved the phone number to Amway’s Customer Service. I have always found Amway’s Customer Service people very friendly and helpful and this day was no different.

As I described my problem, this lady from Amway’s Customer Service tried her best to talk me through ways to get the lid off. She instructed me to put ice wedges around the lid of the pot. Ice makes things expand. Next she tells me to put the sauce pan back on the burner and reheat it. REHEAT IT?? Is she nuts? Didn’t she hear me when I told her I had 3 day old chicken livers in there and had used the bleach to try to dissolve the chicken scum water?

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Reluctantly I followed her instructions. Now she tells me that I need to bring the Amway Queen Cookware back to the temperature it was when the lid sealed. She warned me to have a towel ready to dry up all the melted ice that was going to be on my stove top. Now, wait a minute. Hello?? Again, I repeat, didn’t you hear me say I made these livers three days ago. How would I even know what temperature they were cooking at? And may I also say, I have never seen anything in the instructions of how to use my Amway Queen Cookware that said I should take note on what temperature I am using should the sauce pan seal itself. Now I’m really ready to throw the sauce pan in the garbage.
Picture me now, I have a cordless phone that doesn’t want to remain between my ear and shoulder, my chicken livers boiling again, the aroma of bleach in the air and water from the melted ice running all over the top of my nice glass top range.

Well, it isn’t working and I am tired of trying to hang onto the phone with shoulder. I am expecting my son to arrive later that day from a long and gruesome trip through ice and snow from northern Canada, a 600 mile trip and I just plain had other things that I needed to get done. I’m disappointed, and discouraged. I tell her I am not willing to try any longer. I ask her if the warranty covers a sauce pan that is glued shut with chicken livers inside. She agrees that they will replace my sauce pan. Next she gives me an address for the service department and tells me to promise to put the whole sauce pan in a large zip-lock bag and prepare to ship it back to Amway. She didn’t know what would happen during shipping and the unexpected victim receiving it might not be happy if it came unglued.

At this point, I am a little less frustrated and relieved that Amway would stand behind their product and not give me a hard time. I hang up the phone and in walks my son through the back door (about 2-3 hours earlier than expected). I was glad to see him arrive safely and glad I could have my sauce pan replaced. Then for some reason, the lid to my Amway Queen Cookware turns and slips open. No prying or cursing involved.

So, needless to say, here this morning when my oatmeal got locked in my Queen Cookware sauce pan, I was having flashbacks. I was ready to SCREAM!!. Once I got myself composed, I decide if it worked once, it could work again. Ice, heat, mop up water, ice heat, mop up water. Just about when I ran out of patience, the lid to my Amway Queen Cookware turns and slips open. I learned that this is a feature of the Amway’s Queen Cookware. The pan will seal itself if you allow it to cool way down while the lid is on.

It is now past 2 o’clock and I have not had breakfast. I am not brave enough to “try again”. Gun shy? You bet! I just finished a cheese sandwich and some black olives. I figure this will make for a saner afternoon.

When the Amway site says, “VITALOK cooking method- compared to traditional cooking methods, the iCook VITALOK cooking method “locks” in over a third more essential vitamins and minerals”, I sure can attest to that!!!

This is remarkable.  Even if you have no particular interest, please pass on to the bakers in your life.  
Just click on the name of the cake and bam the recipe appears!