What Words Do You Use that "Date" You?

I've got a friend that says groovy.

I think that's kinda cool...

Right On!

Just kidding - I've never said that- it just fits so well with groovy and cool (and reminded me of Linc from the Mod Squad).

Albums. I call them albums sometimes.

What do the kids call them now anyway? Disks? Releases? CDs? DVDs? WTF?!

Kicky- I have been known to call CDs, "records". After all, they ARE recordings!

Just saw "American Gangster". Unbilled, Clarence Williams III (Linc) played "Bumpy" Johnson. I was shocked when I saw him, and realized how time had flown. When I looked him up, I discovered that he was my age, and that really was a "trip"! (Another dated word)

Dunno. When my posse crashes here in my crib tonight I'll ask them if they grok this.
Joe(Later.)Nation

i'm hip to that daddy-o

wow

I seem to use "awesome" a lot, which gives off a whiff of 80's.

Hep and hip ( äs in that is a hip expression which replaced, "man, you're a hep cat." Very maynard G. Krebbs from 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis')

Blast (as in wow, that party was blast, though I still it hear this term even today)

Bomar-brain (as in the old computer ..twerm means a very smart, nerdy)

Aura (as in I liked her aura even though she was a Scorpio)

bad ju-ju (as in bad aura... voodoo-occult connotation vey passe)

gear or fab (gear is so old that I'd not be suprised if only a few recognize it)

wow, didn't think many folks outside britain used gear, unless you're a junky

"See ya later, alligator" countered with, "In awhile crocodile".

When I was young, something that was wonderful was "hot". Later, "cool" became so pervasive, that after awhile, it lost all its meaning. I think that we are back to "hot" again!

Before my time, there was the "bohemian", a person who was a bit out of sync with the general culture. Bohemian became "beatnik", then "hippie". I really don't know how those folks are described now.

Blame the stick figure Paris Hilton for 'hawt's' overuse. It's as yesterday's news now as a Member's Only jackets are.

I hear terms like freak, freak-a-zoid and a few times hemp-head for the pot-smokers. Rastafarians still use the term righteous. Sometimes, though more rarely, 'head' (as in pot-head) used, though.

Gear here (state-side) though, meant...same as fab or groovy. Theose bell-bottoms are gear...ab fab (absolutely fabulous).

Not the way someone dresses or their garb or a drummers gear say is their drum kit. Not the needle-works for junkies .

Hipster maybe. Although they're a slightly different breed.

I think of beatniks and hippies as being different too rather than two words for the same creature.

Hipster: likes Apple products, has large plastic-framed glasses, wears scarves (male + female) and tight jeans.

Hippie (young): Microbrews, is very into fermentation in general, wears a lot of hemp products.

Hippie (old): Same as ever but hair is now gray or white.

Beatnik (old): There aren't really any young beatniks in the way there are young hippies I don't think. So beatnik is more a historical reference (Ginsberg et al) or an original beatnik who is now aged (like the old hippie).

yeah, i just always seems very british to me

Old reference to beatnik: nihilistic (more like today's goth than hippies). They're big on non-thematic bee-bop jazz, poetry slams, ban-the-bomb/end-of-the-world-scenario, Dharma bum-On-the Road Again-Jack-Kerouac, Ginsberg poetry, perhaps early Leronard Cohen.

or no hair at all!

Reference to gear here is not the way the term used now. This is about the dated way the term was used in the '60s and '70s.