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20 Slang Terms From the 1970s No One Uses Anymore
Best Life Online ^ | 8DEC17 | Bob Larkin

Posted on 02/01/2019 9:33:13 PM PST by vannrox

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121 posted on 02/01/2019 10:48:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vannrox

In California we used the term ‘beaners’. I’ve only heard it in that part of the country. Even in the late 90’s I heard California kids using it . I’d explain what it means but now that would be considered a first degree thought crime. It’s almost as if any group that predominately votes for RATs is privileged from any criticism.


122 posted on 02/01/2019 10:48:24 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Charles Martel

There are quite a few of these that are unfamiliar.

I’m Los Angeles, Graduated school 1967.


123 posted on 02/01/2019 10:49:56 PM PST by BunnySlippers (LQBTQ)
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To: Windflier
As as teen growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in that era, I remember that well. It used to grate on my ears when I heard cops trying to talk cool.

Like the white cop on Sanford and Son.....


124 posted on 02/01/2019 10:50:32 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
maybe regional variations....??

It's possible. There always have been regional variations in American slang.

I used to encounter that as an Army brat whenever we moved to a new base.

126 posted on 02/01/2019 10:51:14 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
Compton High, class of '72 here.

That's famous, Dude! Respect.

127 posted on 02/01/2019 10:51:43 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: vannrox

But nothing could ever compare with good old RAF Pilot Banter....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=900keoFkqOk


128 posted on 02/01/2019 10:52:48 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I am so over Watergate. Folks, never mention that to me again.

Nixon wasn’t the purest guy on the planet, but he wasn’t a traitor. He wasn’t selling our soul to the highest bidder.

He didn’t give missile technology to our largest potential enemy. He didn’t give away the store on trade. He didn’t take massive sums of money from the Russians.

He didn’t arm and fund and arm global terrorist networks. He didn’t bad-mouth the U. S. on global tours.

He didn’t hand off strategic assets like the Panama Canal without so much as coffee over it, to see if we could work out a deal.

He didn’t meet with the leading socialists on the planet and give them more respect than they deserved.

His meeting with China during the Cold War was for strategic effect. It wasn’t like kissing up to Noriega, Hugo Chavez, or Fidel Castro.

Now a-days they act like nobody has ever been as evil as Nixon. I can think of tree presidents and a number of wanna-bees that are craven traitors.

Nixon isn’t one of them.


129 posted on 02/01/2019 10:53:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: TigersEye
Outta sight, man! I was hoping someone would post that. That will probably make some FReepers uptight though.

Meh... They're all a bunch of freaking straights, man.

130 posted on 02/01/2019 10:54:47 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: vannrox

Maybe we should bring back ‘spaz’ and ‘faggot’.


131 posted on 02/01/2019 10:56:07 PM PST by IDFbunny (Fat shaming works.)
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To: marajade
I never understood why people were so excited by Jackson Browne. I never liked him and absolutely hated his music.

I once had a coworker who was his ex girlfriend. Let's just say she didn't rave about him.

132 posted on 02/01/2019 10:56:53 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Nateman

I grew up in Sacramento. I know what it means. But like I said my parents taught me to respect all races and backgrounds.

Speaking of McClatchy Newspapers laying off... I used to deliver the Sacramento Bee as a teenager and graduated from McClatchy SHS in 1977. Glad to see McClatchy Newspapers are getting what they deserve! I absolutely hated them.


133 posted on 02/01/2019 10:57:37 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: marajade
Kids are smarter than adults.

I was smarter than all the adults when I was a kid, too.

What blew me away, is how much smarter they got as I grew older ;-)

134 posted on 02/01/2019 10:59:46 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Do you know who John Mayer is? Mayer reminds me of the Jackson Browne type.


135 posted on 02/01/2019 11:00:16 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: Windflier

I mean seriously. Three year old kids know how to use a smart phone better than I do today. Sad.


136 posted on 02/01/2019 11:01:09 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: IDFbunny

Maybe we could start playing “Smear the Queer” again.


137 posted on 02/01/2019 11:03:08 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Like the white cop on Sanford and Son.....

You've got a mighty good memory for pop culture. I remember that, now that you jogged the old brain cells.

138 posted on 02/01/2019 11:03:45 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Now when I think about it, that’s when they started the trend of making all white men on TV look stupid.


139 posted on 02/01/2019 11:05:53 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: higgmeister
"Compton High, class of '72 here."

That's famous, Dude! Respect.

Well, now it is, but we weren't a blip on the radar back in the day. Thank NWA for our notoriety.

140 posted on 02/01/2019 11:06:26 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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