In the gnarly world of far-out slang, only 'cool' is still groovy

Post Star ^ | 1/30/2006 | Larry Neumeister

[F16Fighter]

As a wordsmith, thought you might find this interesting.

[ol' hoghead]

"Hubba hubba, 23 skidoo,oh you kid, the cats pajamas" and the ever popular "she'a a real doozie"

[Fiji Hill]

Thanks for posting this. Justice Talion, you're a reet, voot, gone hepcat--a solid sender who is in the groove and hep to the jive.

[F16Fighter]

"Dude, that was hot."

OR, "Awesome, Dude!"

[Bender2]

Re: 'They use to use "the business" on 'Leave it to Beaver' a lot. Like: "Gee, Beav! Don't wear that! You don't want the guys to give you the business"...'

Hate to give your biz the bum's rush, but as to your source, there was not too much 'Hardboiled Slang' on "Leave it to Bever." They didn't give much Chinese squeeze to the clubhouse. They just got their Mouthpiece to give their Mob the Skate! Duck soup, eh?

8^)

But 'Biz' should have been included...

[Drew68]

Rticle says "chill" didn't pass the tect of time. I beg to differ. "Chill out, dude!" is still in common usage. I'm partail to "copacetic" myself but then again, I'm a square cat.

[mowowie]

The new "My Bad" saying drives me crazy for some reason.

[Maceman]

This article is the cat's pajamas.

I love the slang of the 1930's, back when a real man would fall for a swell-lookin' dame and go sappy.

[Kirkwood]

Paris Hilton ruined "hot" for the rest of us.

[Wilhelm Tell]

"Hubba hubba, 23 skidoo, oh you kid, the cats pajamas" and the ever popular "she'a a real doozie"

Those expressions were popular around 1930, right?

[djf]

Dude doesn't know what he's talkin about. Of course, maybe he's really a chick.

When I was in college in the early 70's, a gal might smack ya upside the head if you called her a chick.

[LRS]

;>)I think I just got the business...

[WardMClark]

But I do enjoy using 'groovy' around children. They think its hysterical!

Bruce Campbell is responsible for the best use ever of the word "groovy" in Sam Raimi's hysterical Army of Darkness. Campbell is a hand short in the beginning of the film, and needs something more versatile than the chainsaw he starts out with, so he makes a mechanical hand.

The hand complete, he proceeds to pick up a heavy metal cup and crush it. He then holds the hand up, looks at it, and deadpans, "Groovy."

[yarddog]

"Dude" has also had an impressive run

My favorite Uncle, now deceased, used that term way back in the late 50's and he used it the same way people still do.

I don't recall anyone else using it until maybe the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".

I had a guy from England on my crew back around 1993 who used the term "sweet". I had never heard it before but within a couple of years it was popular.

[Fresh Wind]

"Cool" has been in the language so long that it's no longer slang.

[ErnBatavia]

Bitchin'

[Katya]

""Hubba hubba, 23 skidoo,oh you kid, the cats pajamas" and the ever popular "she'a a real doozie"

You know, I went to elementary school in Queens NY, during the early 7O's, and you could certainly still hear those expressions being used. I always thought that perhaps because some of the kids had older parents, that type of slang carried over.
I remember one of my favorite expressions of disbelief was "Oh, baloney...", which did not go over well when I moved to the Wash DC area for junior high school.

[Bender2]

I had two great uncles who were brothers and growing up in the 1930s, they both called each other 'Dude.'

My Father said they were called the 'Dude Brothers' by their family and friends!

[Bender2]

Re: ";>)I think I just got the business..."

Don't be a 'Bunny!'

[operation clinton cleanup]

Fer shizzle my nizzle.