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    Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    It does make the title of "Buckets of Blood," the old Roger Corman movie, a little more understandable. #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    I'm going to get to work on a book of '70s slang. All I've got so far is "jive turkey", though. #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    [www.youtube.com] #hipsters
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Oh, this is sad. My parents said almost all of these things and they were part of family slang growing up. I thought everyone knew these phrases. Just me? OK, I'm going to go sit in the corner now. #hipsters
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    Image of Ally Link Ally Link
    11/16/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: Cosign. My parents were far from hipsters but have said a lot of the above and said it often. #hipsters
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    Image of Sullygulliver Sullygulliver
    11/16/09

    @Ally Link: I'm jealous of you both. I swear I don't think my parents, much less my grandparents, knew any slang...certainly none of the above. Straight from the fridge.
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    Image of Thomas Lord Thomas Lord
    11/16/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: Likewise, I'm sure. It's even weirder to think about some of the one's I picked up from grandparents (WWII greatest generation types) - like the difference between a chippy (hot babe) and a chipper (functional addict). #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    these are wonderful...(including Bookish's list)...vivid and ritualistically ornate.

    hipsters...let's see..."identity chasers"? #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    The day I see two modern-day hipsters having a knife fight (as on the cover of the book) is the day I give them respect.

    Also, who comes up with this stuff? Some of it sounds cool, but a lot of it takes longer to say than the actuall thing they're describing. #hipsters
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Go back a bit further, hepcats:

    [www.cabcalloway.cc]
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    Edited by BookishLookish at 11/16/09 12:05 PM BookishLookish was starred BookishLookish was unstarred
    Image of Maya Twocents Maya Twocents
    11/16/09

    @BookishLookish: Thanks for that link - it was a blip, man!

    Love this article, though - the book makes me think of the thugs threatening Frankie & Annette in, "Beach Party."
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    Image of Thomas Lord Thomas Lord
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    FWIW, I think "screwed, blued, and tatooed" is originally navy talk. As in "Why is Smitty in the hole?" "He went ashore last night and hung out at Jimmy's. By the time he was three sheets to the wind the working gals were all over him. He hit the town. Woke up this morning screwed, blued, and tatooed - literally: no uniform, no wallet, black eye, and nothing to wear but a pink robe with feathers around the collar and a new mermaid named Lacey on his chest." "Feathers, huh? Pink? Sorry I missed that. Must a cut quite a handsome figure." "Yup. Officer material. He couldn't get back on base so he hit the drink up by the fishing peer, swam over, and did the whole 'man overboard' routine." "Worth it?" "Yeah, they looked pretty hot to trot." #hipsters
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    I've always called the Young and Entitled who think they invented Art and Music over the bridge simply "assholes."

    I know it isn't very clever, but I pretty much spent my twenties on a community joy ride -- now I'm a middle-aged barbeque with a leaky roof.... #hipsters
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    The Coens' Miller's Crossing is the ur-text of earlier American slang -- Prohibition Era. So "Take your flunky and dangle." #hipsters
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    Image of RunawayPancake RunawayPancake
    11/16/09

    @skahammer:
    Y0u givin' me the high hat? #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @RunawayPancake: Eh, let it drift, you sound like you're stinko. #hipsters
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    Image of jbwan jbwan
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Weird. I don't see 'nilla on the list. #hipsters
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    These totally vibrate me.

    Let me misuse in a new sentence -
    I enjoy these vibrators.

    BTW, I usually refer to the Williamsburg doucheoisie as trend 'tards. #hipsters
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Hipster hatred always kinda drove me batty, because there ain't nothing hip about those W'burg yokels. Am suggesting calling 'em "Elmers", appropriating carnie slang for a rube, easily duped. Think of the satisfaction of elbowing your way down Bedford Avenue, muttering, "Outta my way, Elmer...Watch yourself, Elmer...Nice pants there, Elmer..." #hipsters
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/16/09

    @Senor_Wences: Oh how I love the word 'rube.' Usually reminds me of Silence of the Lambs: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. #hipsters
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/16/09

    @Senor_Wences: Hipster hatred has always driven me batty too, but in my case, it's because I love me some hipsters. I've outgrown my own jaded youth, but hipsters of every generation will always have a place in my heart.

    Also, I don't agree they are easily duped. They simply have a very naaaaarrrrrooooow interpretation of what has value in the world.

    Having said that, I do like the term "Elmer" as it's kinda retr0-hip in it's own way. #hipsters
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    11/16/09

    @themediatrix: I dunno, "skinny jeans" seem to be selling them a bill of goods, or that period when they were all walking around wearing suit vests with T-shirts and tootling on harmonicas, emulating god-knows-who. And there was, of course, the handlebar mustache phase.

    I think a fair amount of "hipster" hatred stemmed from using that word itself...causing the hater's own last-picked-for-softball insecurities to lead them down the path of thinking the hatee felt somehow hipper than them, whereas they are actually just like mouse pinkies, blindly squirming through the darkness searching for a teat's comfort.

    "Elmer" is a bit Well-Met-Hail-Fellow and can be spoken both with and without a sneer. #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @Senor_Wences: Many good points you've made, especially with regard to the hatee. Also, extra points for use of the word "tootling." Victorian style spanking is probably just around the corner.

    Re skinny jeans, et al, what usually happens -- as you probably know -- is a hipster contingent adopts something before retail starts selling it. The army of retail trend-spotters and infiltrators have just gotten faster at predicting, observing and churning out whatever will be next. So adoption to mass marketing time is much shorter these days. The result is the other hipsters don't have to look so hard through the bins at Thrift Town, but on the flip-side, it's even harder for a lone hipster to portray him- or herself as the unique creature he or she most certainly is.

    But why should a hipster have to abandon a look before tiring of it, just because the Gap sells one of the staples, hmmm? Basics can be mixed and matched! Handlebar mustache sans vest; vest sans harmonica; vest + mustache + taxidermied (sp?) owl-head watch fob. So many possibilities....*sigh.*

    (But yes, that word "Elmer" -- it fits right in!)
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Wow--so HAEMOPHILIA OF THE LARYNX is hipster for blabbermouth? My anglo mother always called that diarrhea of the mouth. It always seemed to go hand in hand with constipation of the brain. #hipsters
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Let's hit the bricks before somebody dime drops the bulls. #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @Cecil's Wielder: Have you ever boiled your cabbage in a Chicago overcoat in the middle of a cold meat party? That's a mattress ride straight to a hot squat! #hipsters
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/16/09

    @johnivdaly: Your roof would have to be leaking to have that vibrate you. #hipsters
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