It's older than the 70s and the full expression is "she's built like a brick sh!thouse"
(1953)
Posted on 02/01/2019 9:33:13 PM PST by vannrox
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#12. Re “I don’t remember the 60’s”? Why? Too much Gwangi, Mary Jane,Trippin’? It was a gas, as in tear gas.
However, I do know how you feel. I know there was a “sexual revolution” in the 60’s but I must have missed it somehow. Didn’t come to my part of the neighborhood.
Tubular!
>>you can just keep on truckin.
Keep on truckin’ is a slogan from 1968 “Zap Comix” by Robert Crumb.
Not 70s and Crumb was adapting it from 1930s vernacular in jazz and western-swing songs (he was collecting on 78s).
and yes that is the F-word being used in a 1930s RCA-Bluebird song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFcHD8XsCEc
I don’t understand the ones they still use WTF is “cool beans”?
"Far out" was sixties - not seventies.
I know that's a bummer, dude. You rock anyway.
Well dangit, I said it in the 70s.
711 Indian
Oh wait, that was Biden 2006.
It's older than the 70s and the full expression is "she's built like a brick sh!thouse"
(1953)
I was in my twenties during the seventies, and never heard those.
I'm a bit younger, but those were the two that were totally unfamiliar to me. A regional thing, perhaps.
WTF was “Dadley”?
Heh. You were probably in grade school. Us old farts had already quit using it.
I think I remember Officer Joe Friday using the expression sarcastically while giving a long-hair a good chewing out. Guy was all "you're bumming me out, man!" Friday just stared at him in disgust.
I turned 15 in 1970 so I think I could say that the ‘70s were my decade to be hip and cool. (two ‘70s slang terms they didn’t mention) But until now I had never heard ...
4 Psyche!
6 Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid
7 What a fry
16 Bogue
18 Lay a gasser
or
20 Stella
And while I’m at it, I never heard anyone use the pejorative “dillweed” which was prominent in the TV program “That ‘70s Show.”
For Men’s clothing, there used to be a name for pants that were too short. They were either called ‘Floods or High Water Pants. For women’s clothes, there were Hot Pants.
James Brown even made a song about them.
Some motorcycles have always been called Hogs.
VW’s have always been called Bugs.
**Diamond in the Back referred to vintage 1970-1980 Cadillacs.
The rear window had a diamond shape.
That was immortalized by one hit wonder, William DeVaughn’
in the song ‘Be Thankful for What You’ve Got.
Written and sung in the style of Curtis Mayfield.
Richard Pryor about doing LSD
That’s why I don’t drink so much. Take acid, either. White dudes take acid. They do. They take acid and go see “The Exorcist.” They crazy. White dude gave me some acid once at a party, too, jack. And I thought I was crazy before I took it. It saned me right up.
Dude say: [nerdy white dude’s voice] “This is far out.”
I said, “What?”
Says: [nerdy white dude’s voice] “It’s far bleepin’ out.”
I took it, jack. “You’re gonna be trippin’!”
‘Bout twenty minutes later, I was at the party: “Hey, blood, what’s happenin’? [mimes one half of a complex handshake for two brothers] Everything is cool. White dude gave me some stuff I’m gonna be trippin’! You know, I ain’t goin’ no place without my luggage. Believe that!
Look at this, man! I can catch my hand!
[eyes bug out, mouth opens wide,a high-pitched squeal] Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! [suddenly the squeal becomes low-pitched and Pryor starts moving– and talking — in slow motion]
Uh oh. I’ve got to get out of here! [running in very slow motion across home base, another high-pitched squeal] Whaaaaaaaa![suddenly stops, clutches his chest, in a normal but panicked voice]
I don’t remember how to breathe! I can’t breathe! [opens mouth, bobs head] One, two, three. Ain’t nothin’ happenin’, man!”
[nerdy white dude’s voice] “Told ya it was far out!”
>>Spaz - He’s not just a lovable dorky character in Meatballs. Being a spaz is a state of awkward, spastic, bumbling energy. If you’re spazzing out, you have lost all control of your limbs and anything approaching rational thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasticus_Autisticus
“Spasticus Autisticus” is a song written by Ian Dury and co-written by Chaz Jankel, released both as a single and on the album Lord Upminster.
“Spasticus Autisticus” was written in 1981 as a protest against the International Year of Disabled Persons, which Dury considered to be patronising. Dury was himself disabled by polio contracted in his youth. Fed up with repeated requests to get involved with charitable causes, Dury wrote an “anti-charity” song.
The song was a cross between a battle cry and an appeal for understanding: “Hello to you out there in normal land. You may not comprehend my tale or understand.” The repeated refrain “I’m Spasticus, I’m Spasticus, I’m Spasticus Autisticus” made explicit reference to the line “I’m Spartacus” from the 1960 film Spartacus. Dury was considering touring under the name “Spastic and the Autistics” for the record, playing on his disability and the term “blockhead”, but his friend Ed Speight suggested that the song should be about the freed slave of the disabled.
The title and lyrics were deliberately provocative, as the word spastic, a name for sufferers of cerebral palsy and then used as the title for the charitable Spastics Society (now known as Scope), was becoming taboo in Britain due to its use as a derogatory term.
Well I lived through that era but only a couple of these did I ever hear actually used by any real people. Mostly this is stuff from movies and journalism, plus a few things (”cool beans” “do me a solid”) that could only ever be said by a geeky high school student trying to imagine they sounded cool.
Well, I think we can all cut Officer Joe Friday a bit of slack for not being on the cutting edge of 'hip'.
Yeah, I was into listening to Cheech and Chong then.
The best thing about being young and listening to Cheech and Chong, was it thoroughly killed any desire I ever had to try any drugs.
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