The 'are you officially old?' quiz

"When I was a lad..."

Are you really old, or still quite young?
Find out with this week's quiz.

At the place where I work, we rarely get a chance to chat because we're always so busy all the time doing our work. However, during one of the rare occasions when we took a brief moment to chat, the conversation got onto the subject of things from the past.

The whole conversation made me feel quite old, so I decided to use the conversation as the theme for this week's blog post, which features a 'true or false' quiz on things from the past which may or may not have existed. If you're old like me, then you'll know which of the following are true and which are made up, but if you're young then you'll just have to guess.

Anyway, Charles Fudgemufin proudly presents a special quiz called...

The 'are you officially old?' quiz

Have a read of the following recollections from the olden days and see if you can guess if they are real examples of days gone by, or is it just something I've made up? If you know the answers, then you're officially old. If you don't know the answers and you have to guess ... congratulations, you're officially still young!

"Oops, I've made a terrible error."

The Charles Fudgemuffin blog takes a look at mistakes made in the spotlight...

This week saw the release of an exciting new trailer for the forthcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and advance ticket sales for the new movie were already breaking records within a day of going on sale. However, despite the massive success of the Star Wars movies, at one stage it looked as if the original film might not even get made. Incredibly, some movie studios actually turned Star Wars down, but they can console themselves with the fact that they're not the first people, and they won't be the last, to make a big mistake in the spotlight.

Here's a round-up of some notable mistakes over the years...

Characters from Star Wars pictured a long time ago
at a shopping mall far, far away.

1) A long time ago...

When George Lucas first conceived the idea of a Star Wars movie, not all movie studios shared his enthusiasm for the project, and the movie was rejected by Universal and United Artists due to budgetary concerns.

Thankfully, Alan Ladd at 20th Century Fox believed in George Lucas, if not the actual movie, and Star Wars went on to become one of the biggest movie success stories of all time.

The screen licking pug

A helpful pug to answer all your questions...

A cute baby pug.
Please note, this pug isn't the actual 'screen licking pug'
and is used purely for illustrative purposes.

The Charles Fudgemuffin blog should perhaps be renamed the 'Charles Pugmuffin' blog, because last week's blog post featured ten cute pug photos to celebrate National Pug Day, and this week's post also has a pug theme to it.

It's an adaptation to a childish facebook prank I previously featured, whereby whenever your friends ask a question on facebook, you simply post a reply claiming that the following link provides a helpful solution to their problem:
www.smarturl.it/InfoPage216

However, in actual fact the above 'InfoPage216' link isn't helpful as all, and instead it sneakily redirects them to the 'screen licking pug'.

Here are a few examples to demonstrate...

National Pug Day

This week sees the world celebrate the cuteness of pugs with National Pug Day which falls on Pugtober 15th, so in honour of this special day, this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog is dedicated to my parents' adorably cute pugs, Bella and Phoebe...

1) A new arrival to the family

This is Bella the Pug looking adorably cute in her pink bow when she was just a baby puppy. I showed this photo to a girl I work with and her response was, "Arrr!  I think we should have a 'Bring your parents' dog to work day!'"

10 silly quotes from TV presenters

An everyday object, apparently.

Previously on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog I've featured silly quotes from quiz show contestants and hosts. This week I expand the net a little further and round-up a selection of silly quotes from TV presenters in general. Themes include blank cheques, roller-skating pensioners, and 'everday' objects...

1) "Damien Hirst tends to use everyday objects, such as a shark in formaldehyde."
...Fashion Presenter


2) "Kevin Francis can't help being six foot seven.  He was born that way."
...Peter Rhoades-Brown.

It must have been a painful birth!


3) "I don't normally do requests, unless I'm asked to."
...Richard Whiteley