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To: sully777

"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!


255 posted on 01/05/2007 12:52:43 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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259 posted on 01/05/2007 12:56:48 PM PST by Lucky9teen (You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Guess it's like my dad telling me that he never saw girls with poodle skirts or guys with denim, a tee-shirt, and a DA in the 1950s. He still insists its a Hollywood invention


263 posted on 01/05/2007 1:00:16 PM PST by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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