You mean to tell me those phrases are no longer in use?
Bummer.
Posted by ahem at November 2, 2009 7:29 AMAhem, Fiddlesticks! Why, of course all the hep cats still rap this way, like all the time! Gadzooks, have you lost your mind?
Posted by Dan D at November 2, 2009 7:44 AMBitchin' list.
Posted by Gagdad Bob at November 2, 2009 8:11 AM
"groovy".
I can't believe you missed this one.
What's odd is that I never used it in the 60's, but use it now. usually ironically, I'll admit.
Posted by Charlie (Colorado) at November 2, 2009 8:53 AMWhoa!
Dude!
Like totally sweet grokage.
...
umm... I still use most of those.
Posted by pdwalker at November 2, 2009 9:11 AMFar out!
Posted by Gagdad Bob at November 2, 2009 9:32 AMAttention all ye under the age of 40. There WAS slang before the internet ...
Posted by Askmom at November 2, 2009 9:41 AM'Klicks' is spelled with a 'K'.
Short for kilometers. Learned that at the SE Asia
war games. (Second place finalist.)
American Digest is such a happening place it blows my mind.
Posted by Sara (Pal2Pal) at November 2, 2009 12:12 PMDiddy-Bop - We were diddy-bopping across that paddy when the gooks popped up and we wasted them.
Frag - That louie better watch it or he'll get fragged.
Posted by ColoradoRight at November 2, 2009 1:34 PMGIVING HEAD:"Not only that she gives great head."
Or as one temporarily unattached guy with a penchant for phone sex told me one time:
"That gal gives the best phone in town."
Posted by Sara (Pal2Pal) at November 2, 2009 2:24 PMMy political leanings were bummed out back when they tended to hang a looie, mostly because I was just another ding-a-ling looking for foxy chicks who give good head. (I feel like one of those Czech brothers on SNL after typing that.) I find that hanging a roscoe (in a political sense) leaves me much less uptight and more together. That's mainly because my head is less firmly impacted up my rear end these days. Ah, youth.
Thanks for this one, Gerard.
Posted by mezzrow at November 2, 2009 4:07 PMI am righteously trippin' on this scene. Like windowpane, and colitas, man- totally cosmic...
JWM
Posted by jwm at November 2, 2009 6:15 PMBack in those days -- and that whole decade is pretty hazy -- I was kind of fond of "far out" and then I got to reading Stephan Crane's "Maggie: Girl Of The Streets" which was written in the 1890s and discovered that it was street slang back then. Out of sight, man; it almost blew my mind.
Posted by Ted Joy at November 2, 2009 9:15 PM"cool"
When did that one come into play?
Posted by pdwalker at November 3, 2009 1:25 AMRight on!
Or, ironically, "Right Arm," while holding aloft one's fist as a gesture of solidarity with something or other...
Posted by Rob De Witt at November 3, 2009 11:20 AMThe top cartoon brings to mind the catch phrase used by my group on an almost daily basis:
"What's it all mean, Mr. Natural?"
"Don't mean shit, kid."
Whoa, man. You got some folks of these Eff-Emm types here seein' trails. Better cheese it before the heat gets wind of what's going on here.
Flower Power, man. It's funkadelic.
Posted by Joan of Argghh! at November 3, 2009 4:08 PMI love you man. I really do. I admit it.
Similar to the ironic "Right Arm," was "Farm Out."
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