I remember most of these. Once in a while when I’m in a good mood at work…I will slip some of these in just to see the reactions. I’m in IT so I can get by with it…we are viewed as weird anyway. I never realized how much out of date slang there is out there. This doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Do Me a Solid – do me a favor
To the Max – I still use this one…it contains my name so it fits.
Disco Biscuits – Quaaludes
Cool Beans – Not a side dish but it’s cool
10-4 – good buddy – an understanding
Sweet! – very cool
Psyche – To fake someone out…love this one
Groovy – Everything is cool
Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid – Stop getting into my business
Do Me A Solid – Do me a favor
Catch you on the flip-side – See you later
Far Out – Cool and groovy
Can You Dig It – Do you understand
Wicked – Awesome
The Skinny – The lowdown
Good Night Johnboy – from the Waltons…a form of goodbye
Dy-no-mite! – JJ or Jimmy Walker from Goodtimes…something that is great.
Dream On – Saying something is unrealistic
The Man – Well this one is used today…the authority, corporations, police, government… the boss
Bitch’n – very cool
Gimme Five – This one has totally vanished…I’m updating this one…many do this with kids now…so I see a comeback.
No Way, Jose – Not going to happen
That’s Bogus – Not fair
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I believe it was in the second episode of Threes Company that John Ritter says good night Johnboy. It was really funny because he had been on the Waltons like a year or so before playing the pastor.
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yea that is where he got his break
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Still use: sweet!, groovy, see you on the flip side, dream on, no way Jose. Ones forgotten but remember fondly: psyche, far out, wicked, dy-no-mite. About Gimme 5 – I hope parents still use this with their kids! I loved doing, gimme 5, way high, way low, too slow! Good Night Johnboy – from one of the best TV shows ever made, then and now. Its only competition for me is Northern Exposure. We shortened bogus to bogue and used it a lot. So your name isn’t really badfinger? 😉
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I’d love to be Badfinger! lol.. I love the Waltons. I loved Grandpa…when he passed it just wasn’t the same. I still watch that show… it was good for a very long time. I’m going to do a post about them soon. I have one started…just a well written show.
I haven’t seen Northern Exposure in a long time.
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I need to buy both of these series’, but you know the minute I do they will come up with a new technology to make the format obsolete…
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I know they probably will… I bought the set and then burned them into video files…I now stream everything to our tv… no finding the dvd etc…
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One of the perks of being an IT person named Badfinger, you know how to do that stuff!
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Northern exposure was awesome
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I need to watch it again. It’s been a long time
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Did you hear they are making new episodes? Unbelievable!
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You know my son told me that not long ago. I told him he would like the show.
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No, i did not! Fantastic
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I don’t know if it’s just a regionalism up here in Boston. It used to be hard to get through a conversation, without the word ‘Pissa’, meaning good. ‘Wicked Pissa’ meant really good, and ‘Wicked F***in’ Pissa’ meant, well, you know. Good one, Badfinger. This one was fun to read.
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Thank you… I like that one…I will remember that phrase
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I wasn’t aware of “disco biscuits” and as for “gimmie five”… my 3 year old granddaughter uses that phrase all the time. ***I’m teaching her well, ehh?
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Teaching her great! I just learned disco biscuits from an older friend I know.
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The first thought I had when I saw your headline- for 70’s slang- Cake- as in ‘your a cake’- as in being a baby or sissy. I see there are also other more vulgar meanings these days.
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Yea I was going to have “Sit On It” from Happy Days and I thought it meant just shut up…but not now lol
I havent heard the Cake one in a long long time.
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I haven’t heard Cake since… the mid 70’s.
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Wow seems we’ve kept quite a few of them eh
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Yes we do… I did the “Stop dipping in my Kool aid” the other day…that one… people don’t know lol. Alot of them though you are right
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Well…I didn’t really know that one either, but they’ve all got some ‘character’!
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Personality… that is it… that is what I think is missing today with cars and houses looking all alike.
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Things like facebook don’t help – we only interact with people we like and agree with…hard to find creative sparks when we aren’t challenged eh!
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Yea I feel like people are afraid to be different. Individuality is missing… I’m pretty bleak thinking I guess… You have a point though…without some conflict you can get in a comfortable rut.
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Well difference is basically suppressed in a modern education after all…it takes a lot of spirit to come out the other side with a strong individual personality! lol
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I’ve tried to teach my son that. I wasn’t sure if I could get through but I did. He marches to his own drummer… At first he was trying to fit in and I told him…he needed to be him not what everyone else thought he should be.
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Great advice to hear early!
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hahaha! I still use some of these! Great memories. A very groovy and far out post! 😎😎😎😎
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I must be stuck in the 70s . I use many of these expressions today.
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I’m there with you…I still use a lot of it.
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