Every time I hear that word, i remember the phrase:
“Nattering nabobs of negativity”
from the Nixon/Agnew era.
I’m really old.
“Of negativism” actually. I was a bit of a toddler for catching that phrase first hand, but am well aware of it.
I’m old enough that I stuck Boston’s “Third Stage” CD into my car this weekend, while thinking of it as “the new album.”
It came out in 1986.
Also from the line in the Disney movie “Alladdin”
We must be close in age, because that’s the first thing that occurs to me too.