GMMore 2409: Match The Slang To The Decade

Welcome to Good Mythical More. Let’s explore the world of slang words and when they were invented. But first, let’s donate $1,000 to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History to aid in their mission to promote, research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community. And you can join us in giving at asalh.org/donate. Yes! Hm, so these are just some slangs. Just some slangs. Slangs. From different decades. And you’ll have to guess where they’re from. Okay. Like this first one, which is abyssinia. I’ll be seeing ya. A, it’s one word. A-B-Y-S-S-I-N-I-A. Abyssinia. It’s all one word? Yeah. What? That’s dumb. No it’s not. What do you mean it’s all one word? I’ll be seeing ya. I’ll be seeing ya, all one word? Abyssinia. I know what it means, but I never thought it was one word. Well. One word, ’60s. It sounds– Maybe we don’t need these. No, I think this is the ’40s. I think this is the ’40s. I’ll be seeing ya. It’s actually, it’s earlier. Okay. The 10s. If we get any earlier than that, as I’ve demonstrated on our shuffleboard game, it’s kind of meaningless to me. Yeah, it’s the ’30s. 1930s? Yeah. Tell me some more about it. What else do you know? It’s a quick way of saying I’ll be seeing you. That’s it? Here’s it used in a sentence. Have a safe trip home, abyssinia. Abyssinia. Okay. This is making my head itch. Stevie? Yes. You’re a hat person. Mm hm. Yeah, you’re a hat person. You wear, you got a few different things you’ll do, right? You’ve got a hat with a brim and a few different versions of that. You’ve got a baseball hat. You’ve got a beanie. I think she’s wearing, I can’t see her. Are you not wearing a bandana right now? Yeah. Bandana. Bandana. You can see her in the mirror. I don’t like to look at that. And so, based on being an experienced hat person with hat opinions, how are you feeling about these choices? Yeah. The thing is, I mean, both of you are– Mine has a nipple. So, yeah. You’re so tall that when you wear something like this in public, I feel like it’s like a double standout situation. So you’re making– Double standout. You’re making an extra choice. It’s a cherry on top of a cherry? Yeah. It’s what they call a hat on a hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or a hat on a hat. Yeah. That, yeah, that’s how… But you know what? I think you chose wisely. I don’t think you’re off in what looks good. I mean, there are some people– It’s just making a statement. There are some people who will wear a beanie in the summertime. Right, ’cause they get so attached to that being a part of their head. Right. I’m not gonna do that. You can’t get locked in to a certain type of hat. You can’t do it. I will say the beanie, the beanie goes through phases, right? Oh, that is not one. But, you’re like, yeah, I wanna wear it back, I wanna roll it once, I wanna roll it twice, I wanna… There’s like, there’s different beanie styles. It’s versatile. For sure. It’s versatile. Versatile. Give us another saying. I like that one. Passion pit. Let’s all go down to the passion pit tonight and see if we can get lucky. I’ve never heard of this. Is this like– I thought it was a band. Is this like a Roman bath? Passion pit? Let’s go down to the passion pit? Yeah. Well keep guessing what it is. It is a location. ’20s. No, no. Like keep guessing what a passion pit is. It’s just a… It’s not a bar? Mm mm. It’s a strip club. Get lucky at the strip club, no. Where are you gonna get lucky if you’re not getting lucky at a bar or a dance club? A disco tech. It’s a brothel. The passion pit. It’s a drive-in movie theater. Huh? Oh, because… I guess it’s– Because it’s… Like in a hole? No, the idea is that you’re making out in the car at the drive-in. Oh, you are, huh? That’s what drive-ins are for, man. Okay, never done that. Even during the pandemic. There was like this little resurgence of people, drive-in movies, and I never went to one of those. I meant to try it out, but I was just too dejected about the state of the world. Passion pit, all right. And so now we’re guessing what decade? Um hm, um hm. ’50s. Yeah. Okay, ’50s. Passion pit. Drive in, ’50s. Wow, they just owned it, huh? We’re gonna go there and we’re just gonna get passionate. Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid. Dipping in my Kool-Aid. Is that kind of like… Getting in your business. My dad says, who pissed in your corn flakes? No, that’s when you’re upset. Somebody’s upset. I’m dipping, stop… If you tell somebody, stop dipping in my Kool-Aid, it’s stay outta my business. And it’s the ’80s. Dipping in my Kool-Aid. Or the ’70s. Do you think it means business, or do you think it means you’re in, you’re stealing my thunder? No, it means you’re in my business. Because when I said that, Stevie was like um hm. Um hm. That is what it means, okay. You’re thinking, I’ll say ’90s. ’70s. Ooh. Yeah. I can see this. Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid, man. I like this one. Somebody says that at the disco. Don’t dip in… You’re dipping in my Kool-Aid, man. Have you ever watched that– So it’s just like, gimme some space? Stay outta my business. Stay outta my business. Stay outta my business. You’re having a tough time remembering that. Maybe ’cause you like to get in people’s business so much. No, it’s ’cause of the beret. It’s really itching my forehead. What is that George Lucas movie that I think is about the ’60s and it’s got like… American Graffiti. American Graffiti. When you were talking about the drive through. The passion pit? The drive-in, the passion pit. Were you watching that on the plane? Yes! I decided to watch American Graffiti on the plane. I saw you watching that on the plane. And then I fell asleep. And then I woke up and it was still going. I went to sleep. And I was like, I didn’t miss anything. It’s like, it’s like one of those, basically you understand Richard Linklater after you watch that movie. It’s like, let’s just make it these kids just hang out. Around the town. And then, Dreyfuss is in it. Opie. Ron Howard. Ron Howard. Some other folk. Speaking of Linklater, I watched for the first time School of Rock. Me and Lando watched that. Jack Black. Have you heard of it? Yeah. It was a little, the story was a little thin, but that’s true of all Linklater movies. I mean, he didn’t write it. You know who wrote it? Mike White. Mike White wrote School of Rock? Yeah, yeah. So it’s a masterpiece. Yeah, like the creator and writer of, and director of White Lotus. Yeah, Mike White. And he’s in it. He’s Jack Black’s roommate who is dating Sarah Silverman, who is a, she’s the monkey wrench in their plans. She is the Debbie Downer of it all. And I don’t know how Mike White ended up with her. On a toot. Good movie though. Good enough. On a toot. First of all, we’re in the roaring ’20s. I’ve not heard about this. I’ve not heard this. I’m not heard… On a toot. You know what, I was just on a toot. It’s just like on a whim. Mm, that sounds good. Like riding a toot, like toot, toot, toot. On a toot is just kinda. Is that what it means, on a whim? No. I think it’s going on a trip. It’s a little trip. A little getaway. It’s just a little errand that you have to run. It’s Ricky’s bachelor party, let’s go on a toot. That’s like, let’s get turned. Let’s get… Mm hm. Let’s get drunk. Yep. Let’s get drunk. Let’s get get tilted and wilted. Is it from the ’20s? Yeah. Good. It feels very ’20s. On a toot. On a toot. We went on a toot and boy, I still haven’t recovered. Boy. I live in the ’20s. Monet. I thought that guy over there by the water fountain was hot, but turns out he’s a total Monet. Ooh. So first of all, this is pretty recent, even though Monet’s from a while back. But Monet, famous impressionist. Right, right, right, right, right? Yeah. So. So really strange looking. It’s like Monet and Renoir that we have up in the Creative House, Link, remember? Which one’s the one on the bottom? I can’t remember. So it’s when you get close to it, you realize that it doesn’t look good. You gotta stand back to enjoy it, when you get close. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Yep. It’s like, it kind of falls apart. I don’t know, this feels like 2000s. This is art appreciation. When was art appreciated? ’90s. Yeah, ’90s. Okay. It’s in Clueless. Oh it is? Ah. Yeah. Ah, yes. Did they invent it? Maybe. I don’t know, maybe. This is starting to itch. The way it was delivered, it felt like an invention. It’s starting to itch too much. Who says it? Alicia says it? Oh gosh, that feels good. Oh man. You know when you wear a hat and then you take it off, and you just start scratching your head, and you like, ooh, that feels good. Oh yeah, that feels good. Wally, wally, blood and dolly. Wally, wally, blood and dolly? Yeah. Blood and dolly. Wally, wally, blood and dolly. Blood and dolly. This is a little bit of a, this is a little dorky. A little dorky. I don’t even know what this could mean. But it’s from the ’40s. You’re wally, wally, blood and dolly about her, man. But she’s not right for you. Crazy. Obsessed? You really like something. You’re gaga, you’re cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. You’re crazy about someone in an unhealthy way. Okay. Hm. Wally, wally, blood and golly? Blood and bally. Blood and… Dolly. Blood and dolly. Well, can you make sense of that? Mm mm. Me neither. I guess the ’50s then. Let me just stop everything and fix my hair. No, the real decade also does not make sense. The ’80s? 80’s. ’70s. Okay. ’70s, I’d like to know the origin of that. Maybe later. DINK. DINK. DINK. You’re such a DINK. DINK. What about dingus? Let’s camp out there for a moment. A dingus. Lily started calling everybody in my household a dingus. And isn’t that a wiener? Well, probably. Isn’t it another name for a wiener? But, I have heard more kids start saying it. I wonder where they got it from, who started this? Well, Shepherd’s third grade teacher called, would call kids in the class dinguses when they did stupid stuff. Is a dingus a penis? Well, probably. Does she know that? There’s a dingus among us? Um, no. That’s not even what she’s talking about, man. Dingus has an H in it if you’re gonna Google it. It does? Yeah. Yeah, ding-hiss. There’s an H in it. It’s like Dingus Khan. It’s got an H in it. Dingus Khan, Genghis’s brother Dingus. No, I don’t think, no. Genghis and Dingus Khan, coming over for dinner. Okay. DINK. This is negative. This is Peter Dinklage’s fan club. If you’re a member of his fan club. Bunch of DINKs. A DINK. Is it negative? This is actually something I’ve seen recently. It’s double income no kids. It’s double income no kids? Uh huh. Double, so this is a census thing. This is quite common. It’s a DINK. In the Los Angeles area. It’s a weirdly DINKy place. Upper middle class childless couples. All right, that’s good to know. So this is the 2020s. We got a DINK, a couple of DINKs coming over tonight. Yep. They’ll never leave because they don’t have a babysitter. Yeah, they won’t appreciate it. They’ll be, you gotta watch out when you’re inviting some DINKs over ’cause they will never leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They’re not paying anybody. Right. It’s like, you wanna go over to the DINK’s house because they’ve got sharp stuff. They’re not caring about kids messing with stuff. They got expensive stuff. There’s no railings. There’s no railings. No doors. So that’s where you wanna go. You don’t want them to come to you. Coyotes just walking in and out. I don’t know if I told you, they will never leave. Go to the DINKs. And then have people over who have kids, and they’re paying someone to watch ’em because they’ll leave. And because they’re just so glad to be apart from ’em. It’s like, they’re the happiest people to be with. They’re always very happy. Without their kids. It’s like, oh my God, look at this. I remember this. Yep. Life before kids. Uh huh, yep. Oh, to be a DINK. Morgan. You go to people’s houses, you’re like, wow. I don’t go anywhere. You don’t go anywhere. Morgan’s like, I don’t go anywhere. Oh, man. Carney, you going anywhere? Who me? Carney. I was talking to Morgan, no, this sounds so nice. I was like, double income, no kids. I know, man. Too late. Too late. You just, you know what, it’ll happen though. We’re about to become DINKs Yeah, right. I mean, practically. One year at a time we’re right– Getting the kids out of there. It’s like, you know. We are who you guys have to look forward to being. On the precipice of a DINK. In a long time. Yeah, you’ll be 70 by the time these kids are out of the house. Is that right? Well, stop making them. I’m gonna be a young DINK. I’m gonna be a young DINK going out in my Mythical apparel. Wearing that big, tall fur hat. Yes, I’m a DINK. One more, Stevie. Come on. Wait, you didn’t get it. It’s 1980s was the answer. Oh, 1980s. It’s a lot earlier than you thought. Ducky shin cracker. Ducky shin cracker. Ah, to be a ducky shin cracker. Ducky shin cracker, what is that? Wow, look at those moves. He’s a ducky shin cracker all right. Yep, good dancer. Yeah. And that’s the ’20s. ’40s. ’40s. Everybody was dancing. That’s when swing dancing came around. That’s when everybody wanted to dance. That and then the late ’90s while we were in college. Let’s go to a swing dance party. Yeah, y’all don’t remember that. Swing dancing was like really big when we were in college. Yeah. So weird. Yeah. So strange. Sock hops? Not sock hops. No, like swing dancing. And there’s always one guy who was really good at throwing the girls around. And everybody was like, everybody hated him. All the guys did, at least. But that was the only way he could touch women. I mean, it’s true, right? He was so good at swing dancing. So good. It says Josh is a total ding dong. Jordan should replace him on Mythical Kitchen. We’ve known that for years, but you didn’t have to say it. That one’s not on my card, but. JordanLov3r69.

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