Oooooh first to comment, my life is now complete, have been trying to get to the number one spot for a year now….lol.
Oh yes my answers:
1.Dunno
2.Now you bend over like this, and then you get out the lube…….
3.Typewriter

2 out of 3 ain’t bad. Am cooking with gas today!

By Rach on 04.27.07 2:05 am

1. your mother?
2. leap frog
3. manual typewriter, i learned to type on when in highschool!

By better safe than sorry on 04.27.07 2:39 am

1. Elanor Roosevelt
2. Leap Frog
3. Typewriter

By Tracy on 04.27.07 3:31 am

Tracy is the winner! But I did know too…

By deannie on 04.27.07 3:39 am

Hey! I knew it too! This should have been a closed test! I feel cheated! It’s not everyday I get to show off that I actually know something!

By Jenn on 04.27.07 3:57 am

Hey, Neil, I think you hit on the idea that’s going to launch you into the stratosphere. A hit television show! You will finally make lots of money and live happily ever after.

By Rhea on 04.27.07 4:26 am

Sam’s cute.

Can I have his number?

By Eileen Dover on 04.27.07 4:37 am

Good God, I knew the answers. Now I feel old. Thanks a lot, Neil.

By Stacey on 04.27.07 4:46 am

i knew them all immediately. that reminds me of my 9th grade social studies class, when the teacher asked one my classmates who the vice-president was and she said Michael Dukakis. We all laughed and pointed. Heheh. (Well…metaphorically speaking of course.)

By Leah on 04.27.07 5:10 am

I knew right away, but Tracy beat me to it!

Damn east coasters. Most west coast bloggers are still hanging out in bed!

*Giggle*

By leesepea on 04.27.07 5:19 am

Is anyone old enough to remember playing outside with other kids without the fear of being kidnapped?

By Neil on 04.27.07 5:49 am

1. Ellie Roosevelt
2. Leapfrog
3. Typewriter - manual

Go me!

By Finn on 04.27.07 6:21 am

Stop! You’re making me feel like an octogenarian! I got 100%. About a year ago I got fed up with power outages (and hand writing the addresses on envelopes) and won a tiny 1949 Smith-Corona Skyriter portable on eBay for $9.99. My kids circled it like vultures. “How do you scroll down? Where’s the Enter? How do you backspace? Where’s Delete? Why isn’t there a number 1?” Hilarious.

By Dana on 04.27.07 6:28 am

I didn’t know what #2 was, “machine”, that really threw me off.

I must be ancient because I would go off all day to play, down the road, into the woods…alone, and never once thought of being kidnapped.

By plain jane on 04.27.07 6:36 am

Dana, Your comment makes me nostalgic for a typewriter. I learned on an old IBM and later had a Smith Corona. I love the idea of writing on a typewriter. Maybe I’ll get one too!

By MichelleV on 04.27.07 6:39 am

I knew all of these. I must be old. Although I should admit that the kids made me think of Buck-Buck. I don’t know if anyone still plays that, but it was a lot of fun.

By Jack on 04.27.07 6:42 am

1. Yo Mama!
2. Tiddlywinks
3. Cake (It looks like the one they made last night on “Ace of Cakes”).

I only have to appear smarter then an 18 and 16 year old.

By psychomom on 04.27.07 6:45 am

How did you guys all know it was Elanor?! I think the 5th graders on that show are cheeky little bastards. Oh wait, can you call kids bastards?

By heather anne on 04.27.07 7:17 am

I loved leapfrog!! We still use a typewriter at work…only its electric and such.

My kids are so gonna end up kidnapped cause i’m still of the old mentality of not locking the front door. Um… and no one knows where I live right??

By sarah on 04.27.07 7:19 am

Karl told me that was Eleanor….but I knew the rest! Ahem (hiding now)…I think this would be a good game ;).

By Hilly on 04.27.07 7:45 am

I remember playing out all day with other kids, now I feel old.

I knew the leapfrog and typewriter answers, I am a Brit so didn’t get the first one. That’s my excuse.

btw blog is back up

By Michael on 04.27.07 7:51 am

Really…This must be a joke?(amongst the commentors…surely more people knew that was Eleanor…wow…

By wendy on 04.27.07 8:11 am

You think that’s a woman? It’s an old picture of Gilbert Gottfried in a strange wig.

The kids are playing something called “On line for the civil union ceremonies” and this photo was used as evidence against the mayor of New Paltz at his trial.

That’s the iPad, an Apple invention that wasn’t nearly as popular as the Blackberry.

By Noel on 04.27.07 9:51 am

I knew all the answers. So, yes, I am smarter than an octogenarian. (even though I had some trouble spelling the word)

By Churlita on 04.27.07 10:30 am

Sarah — You still use a typewriter at work?!

By Neil on 04.27.07 11:12 am

I knew all the answers, and, I think Sam and I used to date…but who can remember…

By cruisin-mom on 04.27.07 11:26 am

I have students now who have no idea who John Lennon was. I want to cry.

By Nance on 04.27.07 11:28 am

Oh gawd! Give me the BBC any day…

By Ariel on 04.27.07 11:43 am

I am! I am!

By Bre on 04.27.07 11:57 am

Nance, now THAT IS scary.

By Dana on 04.27.07 2:49 pm

Hilarious and clever. I know what it is now, who you look like. I hope I’m not forking my self in the ass by saying Young Peter Sellers, like Peter “Alice B. Toklas!” Sellers. Forgive me, I haven’t read here very long(at the BEST BLOG EVER).

By Heidi on 04.27.07 6:47 pm

After my grandfather died, I asked for his vintage typewriter. He had written me a letter a month for pretty much my whole life on that thing. When my parents flew it out here as a carry on the security guard asked where the monitor was. oh yeah.

By Eileen on 04.27.07 7:20 pm

Damn, I feel dumb! I got 1 and 3, but thought those kids were playing hopscotch. Cool game!

Hey that lime green wall in your house ROCKS! It’s even better than my purple one.

By SJ on 04.27.07 10:44 pm

I got them all and so am feeling old too! I’d go & examine my wrinkles if my eyesight wasn’t starting to do that post-40 thing! Now, where did I put my specs?

By Mine is a Gin on 04.28.07 2:27 am

Dana, I know. And let me further alarm you by saying that I teach HIGH SCHOOL, and that many of my kids are musicians.

By Nance on 04.28.07 6:38 am

Leapfrog is fun..despite its pederastic visual connotations.

When I was a kid, my parents had a Smith Corona typewriter. I used to love to jam the keys all at once.

Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name was Roosevelt, so she never had to change it?

By teahouseblossom on 04.28.07 7:00 am

1. It’s Bush’s Mom before her hair turned white.
2. The children are playing the ever popular “smell my butt” gameu.
3. It’s a machine to exercise the finger muscles. Flabby fingers were huge problem in the thirties.

Very funny and spot on, Neil.

By Mike F on 04.28.07 2:54 pm

i am proud to say i knew all of these

i am even prouder to say i learned how to type (ok - not very wel) on a typewriter

By question girl on 04.29.07 10:23 am

Neil, yes we use a typewriter. We have govermental paperwork that isnt electronically sent. We still work with people who dont can’t open a jpeg or use a fax machine too! Ice age!

By sarah on 04.30.07 8:58 am