Expressions that Date You

I dunno about daddio, clearly Phoenix does, but I do remember Morgan Freeman as 'Easy Reader' on The Electric Company.

Some slang probably did not reach a national usage.
Red Blanchard, who broadcast out of the Cow Palace in San Francisco in the 50s, called cool things "real George" and he also used "zorch" a lot. I am not certain what zorch meant.

I'm thinking that "daddio" is somehow related to jazz (which is an interesting word in its own right).
Wierdly, I saw an an ad this pm on CNBC peddling franchises for a new pizza chain (just what we need) called Daddio's. -rjb

Phoenix said....



Hmmmm. I had figured you to be in your twenties. If I'm doing my math correctly and your mom is 94.... that means you are in your thirties!

Holy Crap, Phoenix! You're gaining on me!

Gus- 39- Like Jack Benny!

:wink:

Vic Morrow in "Blackboard Jungle" was pretty damned scary.
Didn't his character rape a teacher in that movie?
Very, very radical for it's time.

Online etymology dictionary sez:



So the book/movie picked up daddio from the streets, but it was a fairly new term then. It probably wasn't widespread, only among the "boppers," so I think we can assume that the movie brought it into the mainstream...

Wy- Interesting!

Yeah... you learn something new every day

Where did 'my bad' come from?

I dono, but I wish it would go back.

Some phrases recycle through the years. People alive in a certain decade (okay, the 60's) might remember describing good things as "outa sight".

The phrase occurs matter-of-factly in Frank Norris' McTeague, published originally in 1899:



I presume we can look forward some day to the return of "groovy" as well.

That's a gas, Greyfan

I always liked saying the cats meow but I think I'm a couple of decades behind the times.

Yeah, that belongs with "the bee's knees."

I like that one too.
I love cliches, they had some real doozies in the thirties.

My children roll their eyes if I say to them
"S'up?" They don't want me in their
world.

I love it when people say stuff that used to be popular, like "delightful" and "far out". I'm not really old enough to have words that would date me... but it really fascinates me when other pepole say sayings from other decades.
it seems fresh, I get sick of hearing the same stuff, like, the teens today all say "frickin A!" "frickin awesome!" "talk to the hand" "out of control" "for real" "sup?" "whatever" "im out" "cool" it used to be popular to put "ness" on the ends of words, like "coolNESS" or "awesomeNESS" but you get teased if you do that now.