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



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  • http://reluctantnomad.blogspot.com/ Alan

    I linke that link to 20′s slang – it IS amazing how many of them persist today

  • http://reluctantnomad.blogspot.com/ Alan

    Oops, that should have read, ‘I like…’

  • http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

    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.

  • MAX WATSON

    the bee’s knees and the cat’s pyjamas

  • cauley

    I thought Soul Plane WAS a Three Stooges movie. Huh.

  • MAX WATSON

    “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)

  • http://poop yourmom

    wow you are extremely gay go do a chicken

    meaning;wow you are extremely gay go do a chicken

  • http://glyphpress.com Joshua

    Mom? I didn’t know you read L-Dopa!