Neverending, Rayne, Newb, Urge...
 

..........And all other members born in the 50's/60's:


Did people really say things like "Far out" and "Groovy?" Or is that just an extreme thing conveyed in films and tv shows. I've seen pictures of my mom from the late 60's and it startles me. So i'm really curious... If people really did have crazy lingo like that, did YOU guys say "Far out" and "Groovy" as well?

I STILL say them.

It's groovy, man.

When I was a boy, we said "Far out, man !"....
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... and we liked it ! :D

Christ, you really are a coffin stuffer aren'tcha!

You do realise 3 out of those 4 have cobwebs around their ears, right? It will be a miracle if they even remember that far back.

Gee Posh, real subtle. I use 50s lingo from time to time even. Having class is not something dependant on age.

Maybe you should be on aim right about now?

most of the things you see in the movies are concentrated and mainly from the urban centres (back then)

pop culture trends were stronger in the cities - outside of them it was pretty much business as usual .. or it was.

that's changed now because of the exposure given by the media/internet/etc

back in the 60's and 70's i lived in a small town .. you didnt see hippies or other pop culture extremes there - just in the larger cities.

then again i was never one to use popular phrases either. didnt then, dont now.



its kind of the opposite of extreme accents.

in most cities - people talk fairly the same - but when you get into more rural areas - the regional accents/slang are used heavily

Haha, I'm 19 and I use "far out". The 60s language is fun- hell of a lot better than the lingo my generation calls their own.

some of the lingo

COOL---I still say it

Far Out--never really got into that one

Solid--made famous by Linc Hayes [Mod Squad ]--I'm actually trying to bring that one back...all by myself

Crazy --never said it

Groovy-- brought back by ASH

DON'T BE SO HARD ON THE OTHER THREE

that one is timeless ... it's been used as far back as the 50's - probably before.
people never stopped using it.

(except for trendoids always looking for the new thing)

I dont think many people started using it until they saw their stars saying it in the flicks back then. More of a media influence than word-by-mouth popularity.

*trying to imagine a young John Connor teaching The Terminator to say "Chill Out!"*

Music was more of an influence than films back then. Everyone wanted to be a rock star.

one of the words i found interesting in how it changed was 'brother'

back in the 40's white people used it all the time ... i wonder when it transitioned to the black folks ..

70s. Blaxploitation flicks and Motown.

Really, there were so many other forces in play in the 60s, it's hard for me to ascribe everuything to films. I would tend to give the credit for "brother" to Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, black power and The Black Panthers.

We didn't need the movies to influence us- we had the NEWS.

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Russ Meyer's 'Beyond The Valley of The Dolls' overkills on the 60s lingo more than any movie I've ever seen. Funny thing is it was written by Roger Ebert and it sounds forced most of the time since he was a proclaimed nerd to begin with and assumed that was how cool people talked. Best line of all ? "This is my happening... and it freaks me out !"

i think movies were a huge influence the further back you go ..
especially Bogart's time, fairbanks, etc...

Music was just on records or the radio - you didnt see how they dressed or what they said (it was mostly big band)

but the movies then - were a huge influence .. especially when it came to smoking..

Media again.

Either way, the media did have a prominent role popularising a lot of lingo back then.

I was in grade school in the 60s - so no, I didn't use those phrases.

You asked when it switched to a black thing, so I was answering that.

Brother can you spare a dime? was a popular phrase in the 1930s, spread by popular songs, due to extreme poverty and unemployment.

The "hippie movement" was a huge topic of discussion on all fronts in the 60s. The nightly news had reports every day of what this rock star or that political activist was doing. I have a distinct memory of watching some news story about Grace Slick and something she did, on the news, and thinking "wow- that's really cool."

Radio was still a vibrant, living media then, unlike today. Everyone had a transistor radio and we listened constantly. Radio DJs were bastions of hip lingo and were far more influential in spreading words and phrases. People- I WAS THERE.

I'm not denying that movies had some influence- but the 60s was such an important, chaotic time with so much going on in every different aspect of life- spirituality, politics, culture- it's a mistake to give too much weight to movies.

I was 2 years old in 1970, so...I have no idea...I don't really remember the 60's:rolleyes:

My 'time' was the 80's

But you know (a little about) EVERYTHING!

nice......very smooth;)

i believe the 60's was the turning point where music became more influential than movies. The 50's was kind of a tie - because musicians were influencial because of the movies they were in (Elvis being the most glaring example)

a lot of that musical exposure is attributed to TV ... where people finally got to see the musicians....

thats a funny change too - in the early days of TV musical shows - or variety shows made up for a huge percentage of what was on. now it's been split off into seperate channels.


oh yeah .. i was there too :)

What I'm most familiar with from the 60's (through stories) is Vietnam...My uncle arrived home the day I was born, and went straight to the hospital from the airport to see me...Through my uncle, I was exposed to The Beatles and many other things related to the 60's...He never used words like those you described, but I know more about what happened over in 'Nam, and the effects it had on him, than I ever wanted to know...

Ahem- that's The BEATLES.

i was gonna bet money he wouldnt let that one go..

lol...Whoops...Sorry:o

I'll fix it

*hands over the 5 dollar bill to Urge silently*

now if you had said : silver beetles ......

yahoo !! another night with my favorite hooker !!

'old dirty gramma smith"

Congrats on learning just a little bit more through mistakes :P Oh, and I just called you.

hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!


yeah ..I started saying groovy man..after watching jesus christ, superstar.
Now its sounds so ummmmmmmmmmmm ...uncool ..lol

It's ok homeskillet. You're still fly in my eyes.


That made me think of Airplane! :)

My momma don't raise no dummies, I dug her rap!

Cut me some slack, jack!

*shaking head*

Oh well...guess it has to be done.

*picks up the phone, and calls Newb*


"Yeah, its me. I lost the bet (again!), and Urge wants you in the gramma smith getup tonight. Look, I m sorry...Newb, will you listen to me?! New...Newb? Hello??"

Jive Turkey ain't got no brains, anyhow.:D

tell him to remember to bring the duck this time ...