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Can you name a few things that only adults would know?

Asked by cheebdragon (20629points) November 23rd, 2014 from iPhone

It can be a book, movie, game, event….anything! As long as it’s something that most people under 25 years old, probably wouldn’t know about or recognize.
I’ll explain why I’m asking later, but here’s my list so far-

1. Gumby
2. Fire marshal Bill
3. The streak – Ray Stevens
4. Yak back
5. Gidget
6. Jonestown massacre

Anything!

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Dutchess_III's avatar

HR Puf n stuff!

talljasperman's avatar

That the first General Zod from Superman II stared in ” Too Wan Foo “as a cross dresser.

Dutchess_III's avatar

My daughter, who is 35, had never heard of the Mommas and the Poppas!

ragingloli's avatar

The depravity of men.
The pain of childbirth.
Arthritis.
Alzheimers.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Peter, Paul and Mary

Dutchess_III's avatar

Wildwood Weed

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Some of the things I have found people under 25 seldom know or:

• Station signoffs.
• Johnny Cason and the Tonight Show.
• Gus Grissom.
• “Gun Smoke” (TV)
• “Dark Shadows” (TV)
• Vacuum tubes.
• Bay of Pigs
• Khmer Rouge
• Idi Amin Dada
• Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec.
• Muscle cars.
• Punji sticks.

Just to name a few things.

jonsblond's avatar

The Carol Burnett Show, Mrs. Wiggins

The Yip Yips

Stymie from Our Gang

zenvelo's avatar

Rotary phones.
Busy signals instead of voice mail.
Cigarette machines.
Vending machines that only take coins.
TVs with circular channel knobs, stations 2 -13

talljasperman's avatar

Black and white tv’s

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Land Shark
396 Chevelle SS
Dairy Queen
$.74 gas
Changing channels by hand
Cassettes
LP’s
Two Wild and Crazy guys
Get your pets spayed or neutered.

Mimishu1995's avatar

I’m still 19 years old, so can I answer?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Station wagon

White wall tires

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@Mimishu1995 Sure, we want to hear your thoughts.

GracieT's avatar

I’m only 45, but but I do remember most, but not all of these things. I’m not sure if I really remember these things, or if I just have seen pictures or someone’s talked about them.

Mimishu1995's avatar

- DOS.
– Black and white mobile phones.
– Black and white movies.
– Written letters.
– Typewriter.
– Telephone notebooks (for writing down telephone numbers)
– Humphrey Bogart.

Esteban1's avatar

I didn’t know how to drive a car that shifted on the column until a year ago.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@Mimishu1995 Humphrey Bogart. Amazing!

talljasperman's avatar

The phrase Bogarting like quit Bogarting my fries.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@talljasperman It’s Stop Bogarting the joint.

zenvelo's avatar

Palm Pilot.
Dot matrix printer with tractor paper.
Slide Rule.

Pachy's avatar

Frank Sinatra at the top of his game in the ‘50s.

tinyfaery's avatar

Leaded gas Thanks.

JLeslie's avatar

Rotary phone
Pay phone
The Odd Couple
Romper Room
The Monkees
Devo

@tinyfaery I think you mean regular gas, also known as leaded.

Brian1946's avatar

The idiomatic meanings of the following words and terms:

Square, squaresville, L7
Choice
Twitchin’
Boss
Cat
Short
Side
Licorice Pizza

The answers to the following questions:

Who was the mascot for Ipana toothpaste?
What toothpaste claimed to have an ingredient called GL-70?
What were the opening lines for the Chevrolet theme song sung by Dinah Shore?
What hair product claimed that “a little dab’ll do ya”?

With what TV series are the following phrases associated:

Cookie, lend me your comb.
What a revoltin’ development dis is!
Great Caesar’s ghost!

Some of the above might be answerable via Google, but what youngster would bother looking up such inane info? ;-p

Buttonstc's avatar

@Brian1946

I think you meant “Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb”

Cookie is like Oreos or similar.
Totally different pronunciation.

There’s a clip of Ed Byrnes and Connie Stevens singing it on YT for anyone interested.

FutureMemory's avatar

Going to the library to learn about something rather than using Google.

Grocery stores/drug stores that sell Playboy magazine.

Seeing your first porn when you’re actually old enough to go the the adult store and rent a VHS tape.

Coloma's avatar

LSD
Quaaludes
Cocaine
Peyote
Mescaline
Shrooms
Grateful Dead

Oh the 70’s..great fun! LOL

Buttonstc's avatar

These tunes and words are indelibly imprinted upon my brain forever :)

“It was a one-eyed one horned flying purple people eater. Sure looked strange to me”

“Ooh eee ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang. Ooh eee ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bang bang.
My friend the witch doctor he taught me what to say…etc. etc.

The Blob; movie and theme song:
“Beware of The Blob, it creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor, right through the door and all around the walls, a splotch, a blotch, be careful of The Blob.”

dappled_leaves's avatar

“Missed it by that much.”
Mr. Bill
Sock it to me
Jim Henson muppetry for adults
Those little records for kids that came with a square book (with the chime to turn the pages)

Edit: @JLeslie I think it’s actually illegal to mention Devo without supplying a video.
Ok, maybe it’s not illegal, but it probably should be.

Coloma's avatar

Hah! I remember watching “The Blob” at about age 8. Creepy fun.

DrasticDreamer's avatar

@Coloma Young people aren’t as innocent as you think they are. ;)

AshlynM's avatar

Handwritten letters
Manual tv change?

Coloma's avatar

@DrasticDreamer Haha..no doubt, I mean there really is no new news under the sun. :-)

Haleth's avatar

When everyone had a landline, not being able to reach someone by phone because they are out.
“Hello, my name is Cornholio. I need TP for my bunghole.”

cookieman's avatar

Television variety shows.
Battle of the Network Stars.
Driving with no seatbelt.

Brian1946's avatar

Not needing an ID to buy booze.
Seeing a billboard that said, “Stop Ike’s blunders abroad”.

Strauss's avatar

Bucky Beaver“Brush-a, Brush-a, Brush-a, with the new Ipana…”

Tom Terriffic

Howdy Doody Psst…Isn’t that @AstroChuck in the peanut gallery?

Buster Brown Shoes

Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney (In this one they travel to the future: the year 2000)

Dutchess_III's avatar

LAND SHARK!!!

Dutchess_III's avatar

“We are two wild and crazy guys!”

tinyfaery's avatar

Licorice Pizza. Good one. I loved that record store.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Tiny Tim.
Laugh In.

tinyfaery's avatar

Dr. Dimento

talljasperman's avatar

Black pudding… gelatinous cube with a rank in bard. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?705478-What-makes-the-Gelatinous-Cube-a-viable-monster/page2 scroll down to the pictures.

Buttonstc's avatar

Limited to the tri-state area around Philly:

ZIPPERHEAD

(Google it)

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