[sully777]

I'll have to ask my sister. She was a disco queen then.

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IIRC, da bomb was more "urban" than what was acceptable disco slang. I guess the 70s had their groups just like today. What is acceptable slang in one group is unacceptable in another...with a few words being universal like "dynamite" and "dig it".

LOL--Reminds me of Sir Mixalot on VH1's I Love The 70's: "We hated disco...all these brothers dressing up and dancing like they were #%$% playboys jetting their way from Paris to NYC...you're from $%^$& Brooklyn -- %&$^ *$**$!!!"

[the OlLine Rebel]

"Acceptable" is different from "known".

Surely I would've *heard of* this if it was ever really popular! Of course, my sister being older would be a better source.

Heck, I know things/styles people now claim were big in the '80s but I never ever heard/saw them, or hardly ever saw them to say they counted or were "big" (i.e., representative of the culture at large)!

This also brings to mind something my mother claims lately. That in the '50s "square" was a GOOD thing and "square guys" were nice straight-laced good boys. My only knowledge of it is as a deragatory term (same thing, I guess, but different bent - nerd, geek, dork).

Same kind of thing. I still doubt her that such meaning was prevalent!

[erswts]

I give up!! What does IIRC stand for? It is drivin me nuts tryin to figure it out. I an usually pretty goood at acronyms. Thanks