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Posted on 08/25/2004 9:48:53 AM PDT by presidio9
Are you feeling screwed, blued and tattooed because the man slipped it to you? Like, stay loose, hit the pad and share a thumb with your pash.
Huh?
If that made no sense to you, check out "The Hippie Dictionary" by John McCleary. Using the new book to translate, readers come up with the more conventional: Are you feeling mistreated by the authorities? Relax, go home to bed and share a very large marijuana cigarette with your significant other."
Those expecting the dictionary, published by Ten Speed Press, to be a stodgy reference work are in for a jolt.
McCleary's book is chock-full of pointed editorializing, slang and swear words culled from the vernacular of the 1960s and 1970s hippie youth, who questioned authority and created their own counterculture.
McCleary said he wouldn't have it any other way.
"In order to be truthful to the era, I had to put every term that I could remember in the dictionary," McCleary, who spent eight years writing and compiling the 700-page tome, said in an interview.
Hence, among the book's entries are such gems as "hey man" (the most prevalent greeting of the era) and "swacked" (high on drugs or alcohol).
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I've got a better idea: Let's not.
Surprisingly, the haze cleared enough to allow 700 pages....
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I wonder how many pages just repeat previous pages...
"Are you feeling screwed, blued and tattooed because the man slipped it to you?"
Nope Never been to San Francisco.
"Man, I was Freepin' along fine when this hugh and series vanity hit the sidebar! I could tell it was a Troll, so I didn't need to hit the shower. I checked my Sister for moose bites, and the cheese was fine, so luckily my beeber didn't get stuned."
Hippies know how to read?
That begs the question "were you logged on"?
McGreevey is rumored to say this all the time...
You have too throw in a "your a looser" comment in their, to, just too make it fare.
Not to be cracking on the bad spellers. Well, ok, it's just a bit of fun.
Hippies know how to read?
Some of them even grow up to be president.
As an indication of how hung up the baby boomers are on themselves, imagine a dictionary of Roaring Twenties slang being printed in the mid-1960s, forty years after the fact.
"It's the bee's knees."
"I'll say she does!"
"Solid, Jackson."
"Get your flivver, and we'll spoon."
The fact that no such dictionary was ever made suggests the Greatest Generation was not only heroic and self-sacrificing, but prone to live in their present, not a distant past.
I kind of thought that was assumed...
It never hurts to say it aloud.
My Dad was born in 1911. I can remember him using the expression "Screwed, blued and tattooed" as early as the 1940s. Hippy talk it ain't.
True. How tee-roo. :^)
Screwed, blued and tattooed – Very drunk. From term for "badly cheated." Because targets for forcible enlistment in the navy were gotten drunk and carried off, and woke up in Shanghai (hence the verb "shanghai").
Make your time.
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