You mean to tell me those phrases are no longer in use?

Bummer.

Ahem, Fiddlesticks! Why, of course all the hep cats still rap this way, like all the time! Gadzooks, have you lost your mind?

Bitchin' list.

"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.

Whoa!
Dude!
Like totally sweet grokage.

...

umm... I still use most of those.

Far out!

Attention all ye under the age of 40. There WAS slang before the internet ...

'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.

Diddy-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.

GIVING 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."

My 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.

I am righteously trippin' on this scene. Like windowpane, and colitas, man- totally cosmic...

JWM

Back 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.

"cool"

When did that one come into play?

Right on!

Or, ironically, "Right Arm," while holding aloft one's fist as a gesture of solidarity with something or other...

The 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.

Similar to the ironic "Right Arm," was "Farm Out."

Gimme some skin, man!
meaning: Let´s shake hands.

Strawman is a real cumshaw artist. He can get you whatever you need.

That's a righteous list, mah main man! Soliiiiid...

Right on!

Pronounced "Rat own" -- one time I glimmed this jive turkey tryin' to be a bro shuckin' this blood by addin' "Right on" to everything he said, ya dig?

"square", "squaresville"

That's totally squaresville, man. Let's piss off the squares, man!

And before usenet we had BBS, at 300 bits early on, but finally climbing to a blazing 56k in later years. The good BBS were out of town, and I had some long distance bills that would make today's cell phone bills look like pocket change.

There was the aforementioned "righteous" which largely referred to anything unrighteous such as drug use, rutting and the Keystone Kommie Kids known as the Vanguard of the Revolution. (a**holes like Ayers and Dohrn and Mark Rudd)

Nam slang-

"bought the farm"- died
"ruined his whole day"- died
"10000 mile stare"- the fruit of combat fatigue

What about 'snarf'? As in Snarf Comix?

Cool it, man....the "FUZZ" (Police) are all over the place.

One popularized by Robert Crumb himself

Keep on Truckin'

Far-out

I miss The WELL. And David Hawkins, and Boooter, and Tom Mandel, and HLR, and untitled. And MES, in a way.

Maintain! (As in, Oh, man, that's my history teacher... stay cool, man, maintain!)

What a gas!

My 21-year-old nephew heard Jumpin' Jack Flash (It's a Gas, Gas, Gas) and asked me what it means for something to be a gas.

I told him it meant that the thing in question was far out. Blank stare.

I think I settled for "sort of like cool."

Choom is not on the list. Why not?

"The Heat" -- SoCal slang for cops. Heard in the Buffalo Springfield song, "For What It's Worth":

What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singin' songs and carryin' signs
Mostly sayin, "Hooray for our side!"

Who's Scott McKenzie?

I remember this stuff as a kid (born 1966) and it is so funny to read all of this again.

23-skidoo, oh-you-kid!

Off The Pigs! and put 'em on that Death Star grill!

Bought the farm--as early as WWI for flyboys.
1000 yard stare--WWII or earlier.

Right On was also pronounce "ride on".

Mr. Natural knows the meaning of Diddy-wa-Diddy.

Truckin' goes back to the '30s-'40s big bands.

In the 1923 movie "Greed", one of the characters wears a button on his lapel that says "Oh You Kid".

Sorry, dudes, for harshing your mellow.

Hope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no hope.

(apologies to Gil Shelton)