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10 years ago @ The Toast - Current (ish) Slang I ... · 1 reply · +4 points

From my observations: yes. My sample group is three kids in their early-to-mid 20s and all of their friends. And the internet.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Current (ish) Slang I ... · 6 replies · +21 points

As an old person, I know that I will always be at least six months out of date when I attempt slang deployment. Here is my rule of thumb in determining whether you are also post-slang: Consider "on accident" and "by accident." If you're OK with the first, you are still slang-capable! Congratulations! If the latter is obviously the only choice, no slang for you. It hurts a little bit at first, but then you're OK. Remember, we got to have the 1980s on the first go-round!

Thumb rule amendment: If you personally would never say "on accident" (BECAUSE IT'S WRONG) but your friends say it all of the time, then you are slang-capable. Don't roll your eyes at me, young lady!

10 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Poke Some Fun At... · 0 replies · +5 points

He seemed way more interested in avenging the shoes, i.e. "Hey world, fuck you! Look at the fancy shoes I bought my kid which means I am AWESOME! Now he's a tough guy LIKE ME because of the shoes, and if you steal them and make him look weak then the takeaway is obviously that I'M the pathetic weakling. Because all of the people in my life are nothing more than my own reflections in a fragile, fragile mirror. You fat pussy!"

10 years ago @ The Toast - Dispatches from the So... · 2 replies · +2 points

I've been really thinking about this, and the closest I can come in 1970s popular culture are tomboys like Buddy (Kristy McNichol) on Family. Also seemed like a common sitcom trope way longer than it should have been to "reform" the tomboy and dress her up--think maybe even Lori did that to one of her friends. There was also Ralph the carpenter on Green Acres, but she was always carefully presented as foolishly man-crazy and I'm pretty sure got the tomboy makeover as well.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Dispatches from the So... · 6 replies · +9 points

My people!

Actually, I suspect I'm a bit older than that. I watched The Partridge Family in its first run (Fridays at 8:30 on ABC, after the stupid Brady Bunch)! And let me just take a moment to acknowledge Lori Partridge and her devastating center-parted swing of hair as the formative experience she was for so many proto-sapphic girls of the 1970s. Impossibly cool, bored, languid, knowing, and scornful Lori with her perfect MOUTH who just doesn't even CARE about anything, but in a way that makes you ready to maybe DIE if she rolled her eyes in your direction, and even more ready if she didn't. But somehow your friends are obsessed with KEITH (seriously?), and even as a nine-year-old you realize you probably should just keep that to yourself at the lunch table? Oh, Lori, my secret flame. Sigh.

Well, anyway.

10 years ago @ The Toast - That Gay Mount Everest... · 0 replies · +36 points

Time we talked base camp. Yrs, GM

10 years ago @ The Toast - Children's Nursery Rhy... · 0 replies · +59 points

so much depends
upon

a red dick
nixon

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

~The Red DickNixon, William Carlos Williams

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Best Moments in · 0 replies · +23 points

Ohhhh. Everyone ALSO needs to immediately immerse themselves in the story and glory of Mina Loy's contemporary, Natalie Clifford Barney, THE famous decadent bohemian gorgeous so-openly-and-fiercely-lesbian scandalous artistic libertine expatriate American heiress who DEFINITELY would have had Mina and her lampshade hats over for erotic Sapphic tableaux and poetry screaming salons. Here is a picture of Natalie and her tragic pale French poet lover Renee Vivien posing in Directoire-era costumes (RENEE IS IN THE BREECHES) in case you just want to make yourself DIE from glamour and envy. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Nat...

10 years ago @ The Toast - Reasons Why I Would Ma... · 0 replies · +58 points

Lapdog maintenance. I AM IN.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Some Pretty Good Burns... · 0 replies · +9 points

I don't know puns, but really need feedback on my new Paul / Silas crucific "Rich Corinthian Leather."

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