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The fuck is even happening
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Probably because you grew up with it an understand it. Here's some 1950s brainrot slang:
I'm a circled guy to an ex paper shaker when this bird dog tried to bash her ears at this fat city place, not supermurgitroid!
The best part about that scene is that this is Barbara Billingsley, aka June Cleaver.
I'd been trying to dredge together outmoded expressions to awkwardly slip into discussions for a while & never could work out a good way to come up with them. How do you generate those?
I just googled 50s slang.
I've always used "heavens to murgitroid" which I think is something the old granny in Tom and Jerry cartoons used to say.
Haha! . . . Translation, please?
I'm married to an ex cheerleader and this pick up artist was trying to flirt with her when we went out to a nice restaurant, not cool!
Wowza!
That is genuinely harder to understand than the tweet
I was reading the memoir of a Battle of Britain pilot published posthumously in 1943 when he used the word "ginormous" (the word was even in the included glossary, explained as a combination of gigantic and enormous). It was very surprising as I'd always assumed that word was Valley Girl speak that dated to the 1980s at the earliest.