American Digest:
Long ago when the Web was the Net and Social Media was Usenet, I spent some years at a watering hole called The Well. From my own personal collection of lists made in those years, I came across this small selection of Sixties slang terms in context it was used that I think I made around 1989.
Additions and corrections gratefully accepted.
- ACED:“We aced him out!”
- AX:“He blows a bad ax.”
- BAAAD:“Hey, I checked out yer old lady today.She’s baaad,man.”
- BARF:“You barf after the peyote milkshakes, bro, but, hey, it’s beautiful.”
- BALLSY:“She is one ballsy chick.”
- BALLING:“So we smoked some righteous reefer and spent the afternoon balling our brains out.”
- BLOW YOUR COOL:“What ever you do, don’t blow your cool.”
- BLEW HIM AWAY:“The pigs just blew him away with their shotguns.”
- BOONDOCKS:“Let’s make it to this pad I scammed out in the boondocks.”
- BREAD:“Dope will get you through times without bread better than bread will get you through times without dope.”
- BRING DOWN: “No, oh no!, don’t bring me down. No, no, no, no, no…”
- BUMMER:“Bummmmmmmmmer!”
- BUBBLEGUM MUSIC:“Scott McKenzie, my ass! He’s the king of teenyboppers and bubblegum music.”
- CATCH SOME RAYS:“You’ve caught enuf zzz’s, let’s hit the beach and catch some rays.”
That article was far out.
American Digest is just groovy man, and a daily stop for me.
Obama is a jive turkey!
Correction:
BUMMER:“Bummmmmmmmmer!”
should be
BUMMER:“Bummerrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
I can dig it.
The Well: Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link, that grew out of the Whole Earth Catalog. That was before Al Gore invented the internet.
Right arm!
Outta state!
Farm out!
“Cheese it! The Fuzz!
Outta sight, man.
Cool your jets.
Don’t bogart that joint.
They totally missed “Bitchen”. Which I still use today.
Let’s book, this bar’s boring.
I don’t even have a sweet bippy to bet anymore….
I still say jiminy cricket when suprised or nifty when i like something but those predate the sixties.
Not sure when it came into the lexicon or when it went out, but it’s been a long time since I’ve heard some one exclaim that they were “sick and tired” of something.
Is there a 60’s slang term for people making lists in bars?
Groovy article, man.
I’m hip to that
Besides “Fuzz”:
Bubbletop
Bubbledaddy
Chill out, man!
Rat fink
(I didn’t read the entire article because I have an extremely short attention span today.)
Peace Love Dove, man. Tune in and turn on, baby.
Ass grass or gas, no one rides for free.
Righteous!
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60’s:
With everyone having long hair, you need to flip them over to see what sex they are now.
Minister: Ok. I’ll perform your wedding. (Trying not to be offensive about being unable to tell which is the female and which is the male) So who has the menstrual cycle?
Dude: Not me, man. I have a Harley.
I lived thru the 60’s and believe me I don’t miss them except maybe the early 60’s before Kennedy was assassinated and prior to the Vietnam War and the hippies and all the unrest of the late 60’s. Far out man, peace dude, gnarly, we’re gonna have a bitchen groovy good time etc. The late 60’s and early 70’s were just a prelude to all the shit that’s going on in America right now, it’s the same damn radical shitheads like Bill Ayres and the rest of his ilk who are behind the unrest going on now.
That was boss, man.
Eat Me.
https://jonathanturley.org/animal-house-float/ .
1960 was….60 years ago.
I remember how obsessed we were with 1920’s culture and slang back in the 80’s.
Man, that generation just wouldn’t let go. 23 skiddo kiddo and all that jazz.
I’m sure the people in the 60’s loved hearing about turn of the century culture. You know, Gibson Girls, safety bicycles, “Remember the Maine!”
Can’t wait for the 100th anniversary of Woodstock. By then it’ll be just like the Renaissance Fair; with lots of fat people in costumes re-enacting ‘history’.
“let your freak flag fly, brother.”
” I grock you, my man.”
” so many Beautiful People at this be-in.”
I, of course, will attend in costume as the ‘grassy knoll shooter’.
I’m beyond sick and tired of the leftist democraps and didn’t know that was a particular phrase. My mom used to say My stars! and aunt used to say Judas Priest! or men might say what in Sam Hill are you doing?
I see that stuff I said was said in the 60’s by people from the 40’s.
Keep On Truckin’
Far Out, Man
… & everything was either ‘rad’ or ‘bitchin’
now, excuse me ’cause ‘here come da Judge’
Ah yes, good old Mr. Natural and Keep on truckin’. My brother drew Mr. Natural on the drivers door of my 61 VW camper van (I have pictures to prove it) after I had joined the Navy in 1972. I wish that I still had that old VW van because idiot aging baby boomers are paying upwards of 50 K and better for them now and I only paid $750 for it back then. And like all the rest of the idiots back then every time we passed another old VW microbus we flashed them the peace sign. Chicks in Jeep Wranglers do that now. You remember what Mad magazine said about the peace sign back then that it was the track of the American chicken.
groovy, man
Bubblegum music =
1910 Fruitgum Company
The Archie’s
Osmonds of any kind
That’s So Boss!
Can you dig it?
How’s it hanging?
Psychedelic
Shazam!
LIKE.
But, like. People like, still say like, you know, like. All the time.
Like AOC does it.