great historical insults and slang
October 7th, 2006
Great insults from the past reveal conclusive proof: American culture is getting dumber by the very second. Additional proof: our slang a century ago didn’t make anyone sound like an idiot while using it.
Personally speaking, it’s amazing how much 1920′s lingo I use today. I think it’s the bee’s knees.
~jeff
I linke that link to 20′s slang – it IS amazing how many of them persist today
Oops, that should have read, ‘I like…’
Comparing the best of Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, history’s greatest insulters, to Paris Hilton, history’s greatest dumb nobody, at her worst is really not fair. And the “izzle” thing is pretty similar to Pig Latin, which dates back at least to our grandparents’ childhood. Plus, don’t forget the Three Stooges, which are pretty much indistiguishable from, say, Soul Plane.
the bee’s knees and the cat’s pyjamas
I thought Soul Plane WAS a Three Stooges movie. Huh.
“it’s your wally grout”(your turn to buy the beers)
“I just had a great optic nerve”(admiring the opposite sex)
“three cans full”(a pull)
“bangs like the dunny door”(a whore)
wow you are extremely gay go do a chicken
meaning;wow you are extremely gay go do a chicken
Mom? I didn’t know you read L-Dopa!