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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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To: mylife

I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I never heard anyone say “cool beans” until I read a Stephen King book in the 1990s where had one character say it and I thought it was dorky as hell.


221 posted on 02/02/2019 3:41:08 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: vannrox

huh.. (i still use a lot of them!)


222 posted on 02/02/2019 3:43:30 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: Yaelle

I have always considered suck a four letter word.


223 posted on 02/02/2019 3:43:34 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: marajade

Harassment suit material now.


224 posted on 02/02/2019 3:56:02 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: TigersEye

Groovy.


225 posted on 02/02/2019 3:56:36 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: dfwgator

I remember him.


226 posted on 02/02/2019 3:57:26 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: vannrox

“Catch you on the flip-side. ... The other side of today is tomorrow,”

It doesn’t necessarily mean ‘tomorrow’. It means “later”.

“we know, it doesn’t make sense to us either.”

It makes perfect sense. Obviously the writer never used vinyl records.


227 posted on 02/02/2019 4:15:25 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: vannrox

“If you find a woman’s body especially attractive, you might say she was built like a brick house.”

That’s not right; it’s not the entire saying.

What is this author — twelve years old?


228 posted on 02/02/2019 4:19:19 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Fresh Wind

Everybody’s Truckin’ was sung by white guys from Texas.

And Commander Cody covered it in the early 70s F’s intact.


229 posted on 02/02/2019 4:36:26 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: vannrox; All

Brick house comes from the saying “built like a brick s—t house”.
Song by the Commodores even pauses a moment so you can throw that word in

She’s a brick (...s—t..) house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBx6mAWYPU


230 posted on 02/02/2019 4:40:39 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: vannrox

Another day, another buck three-eighty


231 posted on 02/02/2019 4:42:42 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: dfwgator

I think it crossed over into the 70s.

I don’t remember the 60s ;)

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232 posted on 02/02/2019 4:48:54 AM PST by thinden
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To: vannrox

Dave’s not here, man


233 posted on 02/02/2019 4:50:26 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: ImpBill

Some of those I never heard and the others are mostly still in use at least hereabout.


234 posted on 02/02/2019 5:01:39 AM PST by arthurus (r)
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To: mylife

I don’t think this one came out until later in the 80s. I always heard it being used in relation to doing business. Like as in a business deal or decision being good for the bean counters. Cool Beans.

Could have been used in other ways, but I only heard it being used like this in business circles.


235 posted on 02/02/2019 5:05:13 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: vannrox

Adoy!


236 posted on 02/02/2019 5:05:40 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
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To: a fool in paradise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsLpd4TqVg


237 posted on 02/02/2019 5:09:11 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: Charles Martel

Graduated high school in 78. In beer heads those either. And far out was a thing in the 70s. Can you dig it ?


238 posted on 02/02/2019 5:10:08 AM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: vannrox

Some are still in use. Some seem regional as I’ve never heard them. Some seem misquoted sucheck as “Catch you on the flip flop” rather than flipside.


239 posted on 02/02/2019 5:16:08 AM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Tired of Taxes

I still use the complete term, Bad A$$. lol


240 posted on 02/02/2019 5:28:39 AM PST by Openurmind
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