TOTVers, please help me make a list. You might be eligible for Medicare if...
 

Good morning, TOTVers,

Earlier I started a thread about the baby boomers starting to reach Medicare on 1.1.11. And that started me thinking about a list I wrote several years ago for a group of boomers who were getting close to another milestone.

That was a few years back, and, alas, I remember only two of the things I put on the list. But the others will come to me eventually I guess.

So anyway, I am inviting boomers and non-boomers all to get together here on TOTV to help create another list. This time the list is titled....

You might be eligible for Medicare if....

Here are the two things I remember from that old list, now reworked for the new list.....

You might be eligible for Medicare if you have ever lusted in your heart for Annette Funicello or Ricky Nelson.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you picked up the above allusion to lusting in your heart.

(I hope everybody will join in and have a little fun with this. Thanks.)

Boomer

You might be eligible for Medicare if you can't remember what it is.

Bill :)

You might be eligable for Medicare if you've spent the last 50 years looking for your misplaced [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKlqMjfk1Y"]Secret Squadron Decoder[/ame]

You might be eligible for medicare if your favorite all-time car is a '57 Chevy.

You might be eligible for medicare if know what the letters - L.S.M.F.T stand for.

You might be eligible for medicare if Dizzy Dean is your favorite baseball broadcaster.

You might be eligible for medicare if you watched a Harry Truman presidential speech.

Hell, I'm running out of things I remember - and I became eligible for medicare this month!

If......
 

You remember the year and where you were when you learned the words to all the songs played on Radio 640 WVLG . . .

But can't remember where you parked your car at Lowe's.

(I hope I remembered the radio station name/number right!)

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember knowing that if he brought a bottle of Cold Duck, he was expecting it to be a big night.

Boomer

You might be a Baby Boomer if:
 

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thought of another one though....

You might be eligible for Medicare if you have ever raked your carpet.

Boomer

You might be eligible for Medicare if you quit counting the salt and now just count the pepper in your hair.

You ARE eligible for Medicare if you can remember Howdy Doody's final episode and Clarabelle the Clown saying "good-bye."

You might be eligible for Medicare if the Florida State turnpike signs remind you of Burma Shave.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you can't hear or understand the words to a modern day song.

You might be eligible for Medicare if a younger person never realized that air conditioners never existed.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember where you were when JFK was shot and someone asks you if you were alive during that time.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you ask your hairdresser just to cut the gray hairs out and she says, "but then, you would be bald".

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember being scared during the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and being really, really, really scared that it meant you were going to die a virgin.

Boomer

[QUOTE=redwitch;319681]You might be eligible for Medicare if you quit counting the salt and now just count the pepper in your hair.

You ARE eligible for Medicare if you can remember Howdy Doody's final episode and Clarabelle the Clown saying "good-bye."

You might be eligible for Medicare if the Florida State turnpike signs remind you of Burma Shave.[/QUOTE]



Hi Redwitch,

Forgive me for a little sidetrack here, but that last one of yours made me think....

You might be from Cincinnati if some of those things advertised on some of those signs take you by surprise. :shocked:

Oh not that it's not out there around Cincinnati someplace I guess, but they just can't advertise it like that.

(I am supposed to be getting some work done around here and I keep looking in on TOTV. So much for that New Year's Resolution.)

Boomer

If you have celebrated the 15th anniversary of your 50th birthday.

Here's some more...
 

You might be elegible for Medicare if......on an important list.....

You might be elegible for Medicare if......YOU ever used a party line (or know what one was)

You might be elegible for Medicare if......YOU know what a rotary phone is.

You might be elegible for Medicare if......YOU know who/what NellyBell was.

You might be elegible for Medicare if......YOU remember what "SnapJack Shoes" were...(Do you?)

You might be elegible for Medicare if......YOU remember oleo packs with the orange dye pellet(Do you?)

You might be elegible for Medicare if......YOU remember "Bonamo's Turkish Taffey"?

Too many more to continue, plus I lost my train of thought!
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I am loving this -- thanks everybody
 

You might be eligible for Medicare if you returned from SE Asia, a while back, with a Seiko watch, a quadraphonic receiver, and four 75-watt Pioneer speakers.

Boomer

Bet you all know that Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco, but do you know about Loose Sweaters?

Or Loose Straps................ :faint:

Bill

... if you wondered where the yellow went when you brushed your teeth with Pepsodent.

Oh, and if you can't believe you ate the whole thing!

You might be eligible for Medicare if you.....

... know what takes a licking and keeps on ticking
... know Who's on first
... ever heard of the Whiz Kids (Philadelphia area)
... know who the "Say Hey" kid is
... know who "Quimo Sabe" is
... know who the "Geeter with the heater" is (Philadelphia area)

You might be eligible for Medicare if you were ever a coffee achiever.

Boomer

I don't even know *what* that is.

I don't get it. :shrug:

But then again, I'm not eligible yet.

Aw, c'mon, tony and turner, you both got coffee achiever written all over you.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rea-yBgOSo[/ame]

Boomer

Oh. I must have slept through that commercial. Even after my forth cup!

Those ads were around in the mid-80's, but just think about where you probably were in your career at that point. Coffee achievers. (I never thought the ads made much sense either, but for some reason I still use the silly phrase from time to time.)

Boomer Keurig

Yep. Definitely a coffee achiever. And I too graduated to Keurig. :icon_wink:

I think Boomer might work for the National Coffee Association.

:mornincoffee:

Ohhhh, how I know. And those wicked little cups cost a blue fortune. I think I am going to have to invest in a Costco membership. I have been figuring the ROI and believe I will come out ahead.

Boomer

OK - EEK! following myself in the line-up - maybe I have had too much coffee, but what if I forget the one I just thought of....

You might be eligible for Medicare if you have ever candle-dripped a Chianti bottle and made it part of your home decor.

Boomer Stewart

Boomer, you're pretty high-rent. Mine were always Boone's Farm bottles! :wave:

Bill

You might be eligible for Medicare if
 

you listened to Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the radio.....or Fibber McGee and Molly or Our Miss Brooks or..........

Now that was entertainment!

LW888

Hi B-n-B,

Oh my yes, so elegant. Had to have the Chianti in the bottle with a basket at the bottom. (And, it had to be pretty cheap stuff.)

I have been trying to find a picture for you, but all I could find were the drip-candles and they call those "vintage" now. -- I just learned that in a quick google search. :22yikes: Vintage!!

Boomer

At least they haven't reached "antique" status yet!!!! :a20:

Bill

Oh my goodness. I absolutely loved watching "Our Miss Brooks" on television. In fact, your post just sent me to You Tube to watch a little clip. Eve Arden was wonderful as that smart-a%#ed English teacher. Even as a little girl I loved her one-liners, especially when she would zing one at the principal, Mr. Conklin. There were times when I think I wanted to grow up to be Miss Brooks.

Boomer

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember that your phone number had an abbreviated prefix name such as JE5-5151 for Jefferson or BL5-5151 for Blackstone.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember pressing the button on the phone cradle 3 or 4 times to get a live operator.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember the entire family sat down for dinner every night at the same time and it was not in front of the tv.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you remember you had to contact the operator to make a long distance phone call.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you give up on reading Boomer's posts because she puts things in this itty-bitty print, which you can't read even with your cheaters on.

You might be eligible for Medicare if you still use "whom" and know when to use it correctly.

To whom do you refer?

Uh oh, Redwitch,

You are so right. Boomer does that little print in her posts when she is thinking to herself. And the irony is that Boomer herself has to squint at the screen to proofread it. I will see to it that she does better.

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You might be eligible for Medicare if one of your favorite songs was In-a-Gadda-da-Vida and it sounded so good blasting from speakers that doubled as end tables in your living room.

Boomer Butterfly