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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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    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    Damn, I've never heard of any of these -- but then, I grew up in the '60s and '70s. The only one I ever used was "dead soldier".

    One of my favorites -- not on this list -- is one I picked up from my father (born 1932), which was "drunker than seven hundred dollars". My mother absolutely hated that one, so, of course, I used it at every opportunity.

    Interesting, though, about "longhair". I guess it's a sign of how times change; by the time I reached high school in the early '70s, "longhair" had become a slangterm for "hippie".

    Most of the stuff on this list sounds like slang used by stereotyped beatnik characters from old movies and TV shows. I heard some of the worst stereotypical Beat-slang dialogue ever in an old Perry Mason episode, in an episode (of an otherwise brilliant old series) in which the murder suspect was a famous jazz musician, where Mason goes to this beatnik bar to quiz one of the musician's buddies. To this day, I'm unable to erase from my mind the image of Perry Mason asking this guy "So, what gives with the squares, Buzzy?" Aaauuugghhh.

    Btw -- even inasmuch as I damn' near worship the poets and authors of the Beat Era, and even inasmuch as I think Bob Denver did his best work on Dobie Gillis, I'd still like to borrow The Doctor's TARDIS so that I can travel back to the Beat Era, find the guy who started that fashion of putting "like" in front of everything, and beat the living shit out of him. #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @flugennock: I heard some of the worst stereotypical Beat-slang dialogue ever in an old Perry Mason episode,

    Even better was an episode of "Dragnet" where they bust an LSD ring. It was hilarously bad thank to the "hipster"/hippie lingo. and it was written by Jack Webb so you can imagine how clued-in it was. Can't find a clip, but here's a description of the episode.

    [www.badge714.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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    Miss Anita Manbadly promoted this comment Kaila Hale-Stern approved this comment Ally Link was starred Ally Link was unstarred
    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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    Miss Anita Manbadly promoted this comment Edited by Sullygulliver at 11/16/09 9:35 PM Sullygulliver was starred Sullygulliver was unstarred
    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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    Image of TheologicalSong TheologicalSong
    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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    Edited by A Message To Rudy at 11/16/09 12:14 PM A Message To Rudy was starred A Message To Rudy was unstarred
    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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    tigolbitties promoted this comment Edited by Maya Twocents at 11/16/09 12:28 PM Maya Twocents was starred Maya Twocents was unstarred
    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 walnuts walnuts
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    My father, a jazz guy born in 34, would often say such things. "Skin me man" (to me, a his daughter), when he wanted to congratulate me with a shake or a high five (and I would be expected to respond- "Jive Brother"). Talking about my school work and wondering if i was getting what my teacher was saying: "are you hip to the jive?" Looking at an overly made up woman crossing the straight, he would invariably point and say "an accident going someplace to happen". He was older by twenty years than most of my friends parents- and he spoke a language no one really understood. His sayings go on and on- but you "catch my drift." #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @walnuts: *snaps fingers in the air in lieu of applause* #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 agrodolce agrodolce
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    I am

    "FREE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

    Out of work, unemployed"....does that make me a hipster? someone, please give me a commentator star...that is all I have to hope for right now

    sincerely
    -faint font #hipsters
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/16/09

    @agrodolce: You do realize this is a media blog, right? If being free to run for prez got you a star, there wouldn't be any unapproved commenters. #hipsters
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    Image of agrodolce agrodolce
    11/16/09

    @m4ximusprim3: oh yea, this is a media blog full of unemployed "journalists"...I've read some "star" comments, and frankly I am not impressed my this non-meritocracy #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @agrodolce: Yet, deep in the still places, the desire flickers like a rusty bicycle headlight.

    A star, you whisper. Just one star.... #hipsters
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    Image of agrodolce agrodolce
    11/16/09

    @m4ximusprim3: more like a rusty nail under my bare foot #hipsters
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    11/16/09

    @agrodolce: That throbbing you feel? Desire.

    Or gangreene. But probably desire. #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 Pick-me-a-winner Pick-me-a-winner
    11/16/09

    In reply to Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
    I need to know if anyone A) Has actually heard one of these phrases used, B) If anyone read through these and saw phrases they use regularly, C) WTF #hipsters
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    Go Like Hell Machine promoted this comment Pick-me-a-winner was starred Pick-me-a-winner was unstarred
    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/16/09

    @Pick-me-a-winner: Yes: Dead Soldiers and Screwed, Blued and Tattooed.
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    Edited by Go Like Hell Machine at 11/16/09 11:09 AM Go Like Hell Machine was starred Go Like Hell Machine was unstarred
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