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KRISTINA: Hey!
laughingwithgingers: Hey, thanks everyone for tuning into Laughing with Gingers.
KRISTINA: The podcasts were two feisty redheads with loud laughs, shared crazy stories, play games, and spread salinas. Enjoy.
laughingwithgingers: That little sassy copilot you hear over there on Laughing with Gingers is my partner in crime, Christina Curry.
KRISTINA: And that is Sarah Alopin, AKA Prankster Monk, and my co -hosts of Laughing with Jingers.
laughingwithgingers: Oh boy, I had a false start because i we haven't recorded this podcast in so long that as soon as I hit record, I wanted to go into my other podcast intro and I like for a full second was like, what the hell do I even do here?
KRISTINA: What's my name? Where am I? What's happening?
laughingwithgingers: We haven't recorded in like a month and a half.
KRISTINA: oh I know summer vacation, y 'all.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, we've just been alternating.
KRISTINA: It's real. Mm hmm. That's a real thing over here.
laughingwithgingers: It is, it is. um Well, are you excited for today's episode?
KRISTINA: i Yeah, so I brought, I actually brought sling from like right now.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, did you?
KRISTINA: Yeah.
laughingwithgingers: OK, I brought 20th century slang.
KRISTINA: Oh my God.
laughingwithgingers: So both recent um and my game is going to be, did you ever say this? And are you embarrassed by it now?
KRISTINA: Oh, my God. Well, I'm going to tell you what the kids are saying literally right now um so we can be in the know. I'm sure Sarah and some listeners are a lot cooler than I am and are going to be like, yeah, Christina, we know what that means.
laughingwithgingers: Maybe.
KRISTINA: But I brought them anyway. Yeah, maybe. But yeah, I brought them anyway.
laughingwithgingers: All right. Well, ah do you want to go first or do you want me to go first?
KRISTINA: All right. Yeah, I can I can I can say a few.
laughingwithgingers: Okay.
KRISTINA: All right. Do you know what the word bussing means?
KRISTINA: As in those potato chips are bussing.
laughingwithgingers: Like really good.
KRISTINA: Yeah. Yeah. I don't even know what that that is derived from.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, you didn't bring the history of it.
KRISTINA: No, I did not dive that deep into it. Some of them I do know, like they actually said like how they originated, but some of them didn't say it and I didn't get into it.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, that's funny. I was like waiting to hear where it came from because I actually don't know where Bussin came from either. I do know what it means, but um not not the history of it.
KRISTINA: yeah
KRISTINA: ah right Well, what about drip? Her shoes and belt are dripping today.
laughingwithgingers: like looking really good.
KRISTINA: Yeah, it's supposed to mean like an elevated style or like a sophisticated way of ah being or an appearance or whatever.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah.
KRISTINA: Again, I don't know where that came from. And I definitely don't use this in my everyday language.
laughingwithgingers: i In my mind, it has to do with like texture, but I don't know why.
KRISTINA: um a
laughingwithgingers: um Like it makes me think of like satin or something that like like would or like sequence like where it's gonna water is gonna roll off, but I'm sure that that's wrong. It's just what my mind visually does.
KRISTINA: I like it. i like it yeah i like The ah satin silky flow that that it has or something.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, that's exactly like it were like water.
KRISTINA: yeah I can get that. I can get on board with that.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah. But I mean, that just might be my visual. um Yeah. ah You want some wine?
KRISTINA: Yeah, I do.
laughingwithgingers: OK, so to be clear for everyone who doesn't know and no judgments because centuries are confusing. um
KRISTINA: They are.
laughingwithgingers: This is primarily from the 1950s to the 1990s. this slang that I am. um So that is the century we are talking about. So this is stuff that we probably would have heard from our parents. And it's stuff we would have said. So um did you ever say germsville?
KRISTINA: Oh my God, definitely no.
laughingwithgingers: Did your parents ever say germsville?
KRISTINA: No, definitely no. I feel like that's like Nickelodeon time.
laughingwithgingers: So in the 50s, when you got sick, you didn't come down with something. You ended up on a one -way street to Germsville, which was the doctor's office.
KRISTINA: Oh, my God. and My parents are like a little yeah on the younger end, like they were in high school in the 70s, like early 70s.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, I mean, my my parents were born in the early 50s.
KRISTINA: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
laughingwithgingers: but you still like pick up a lot from your parents. So I
KRISTINA: Did you say, germ did they say Germsville?
laughingwithgingers: don't think my parents were cool enough to say germspell.
KRISTINA: Is it cool to say Jerseyville?
laughingwithgingers: I do remember people saying it though, like in middle school for some reason, like that's where my memory of that comes from.
KRISTINA: Oh, my God, that's funny. Also, though, you know, these things can be regionally focused as well. So slang can be, you know, maybe on the East Coast is what they said in the 50s and not necessarily like south or west or something.
laughingwithgingers: True. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, what about cruising for a bruising?
KRISTINA: I mean, I definitely remember that, that saying, and I'm not gonna say I actually said it, but I feel like it definitely entered pop culture for me.
laughingwithgingers: It's also from the 50s and it is their version for those of you who don't know. It's their version of a face that's just begging to be punched.
KRISTINA: ah That's funny. I always like I can understand that meaning, but I always thought it was like the meaning of your doing something that's really irritating and you're going to get like beat up.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, that's exactly right. Like you're looking to get, you're looking for trouble.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm.
laughingwithgingers: Um, you're like being annoying and antagonizing people. Yeah, that's, um, yeah, I think my parents did say that one.
KRISTINA: Yeah, I could see that.
laughingwithgingers: What about made in the shade?
KRISTINA: I definitely remember that. I don't think I ever said it or my parents ever said it.
laughingwithgingers: So in the 50s, that meant um being made in the shade meant that things were going really well for you and you didn't have a care in the world.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm.
laughingwithgingers: So shade is a good thing in the 50s, whereas when you throw shade ah in the, ah what, like 2010s, is that when you threw shade?
KRISTINA: yeah i don't know i don't i think they're still throwing it ah it's still being thrown i don't need any sunburns please
laughingwithgingers: um
laughingwithgingers: Oh my god, I will take the shade. Please. Oh god, you want to give me some current ones?
KRISTINA: Yeah. Okay. So the acronym GOAT, do you know what it stands for?
laughingwithgingers: Greatest of all time.
KRISTINA: Yeah. I only found that out not that long ago. And there was another acronym that I looked up embarrassingly recently. Cause I'm like, I finally don't know what this means. I'm just going to look it up. And it's the Y I Y K Y K.
laughingwithgingers: If you know, you know.
KRISTINA: Yeah.
KRISTINA: I kept seeing it everywhere. I'm like, Oh God, Chrissy, just look it up. Just look it up.
laughingwithgingers: For me, the one that I always forget is T -I -L. Today I learned.
KRISTINA: Yeah. Yeah. That one is another one. There's another one. Oh God, I can't think of it right now, but there's a few that they abbreviate, especially on Reddit. Reddit's really good at abbreviating things that I'm like, I don't know what that means.
KRISTINA: um And then OK, here's here's another one I've got. Let's see. I've got I've got like four or five more. So this one, I actually have the origin and it's yeah.
laughingwithgingers: Ooh.
KRISTINA: And you might be able to guess this one, but it's Riz.
laughingwithgingers: Oh yeah, I know the origin of it, but you should you should read it.
KRISTINA: Yeah, I did not know this word nor have I ever used ribs at all. ah Do you use that word, Sarah?
laughingwithgingers: I'm not opposed to Riz, but no, I don't use it.
KRISTINA: Yeah, okay, so it originated from charisma, describes the captivating charm an Allura person exudes.
laughingwithgingers: Mmhmm.
KRISTINA: Its pronunciation mirrors its spelling, Riz, and the slang term gained traction among teenagers on the platforms like TikTok and various social media channels. ah But it's not actually just about the physical attractiveness that encompasses the ability to mesmerize others with one's own personality or like your presence. So it's not necessarily just about looks.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah.
KRISTINA: So there you go.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. I always, with all of these, I always wonder if people are going to name businesses or brand around words like race.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm.
laughingwithgingers: Eventually it goes out, like, or my list wouldn't exist.
KRISTINA: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
KRISTINA: Oh.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, man. um This one, I suspect you either heard or used. We'll see.
KRISTINA: oh
laughingwithgingers: It is pad.
KRISTINA: Oh, like your place where you live.
laughingwithgingers: Mm hmm.
KRISTINA: Yeah, I don't know if I ever used it, but it was a huge part of just how people talked around me.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, I feel like, was it Clueless that made this? I should just look. um I feel like Clueless made this famous.
KRISTINA: Yeah, they might have. It was definitely like something that was said in so many movies and shows and everything.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah. Yeah, so um people in the 50s possibly thought they were frogs is what this article said. um Or they end being amphibious life. Yui can't think of a better explanation for why they'd call their apartments their pad.
KRISTINA: ah
laughingwithgingers: I think it's the weirdest term. I always hated it.
KRISTINA: Yeah, it is a little weird and didn't quite make any sense.
laughingwithgingers: But wasn't Pimp My Pad one of those shows, those like, um oh God, who did Pimp My Ride exhibit?
KRISTINA: Like mt MTV.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah.
KRISTINA: I remember Pimp My Ride. You're probably right. Pimp my pad. It just sounds so weird.
laughingwithgingers: It's so weird.
KRISTINA: Oh, God.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah.
KRISTINA: Yeah, I had to open a show.
laughingwithgingers: um This one I definitely used. Wet rag.
KRISTINA: Oh, like someone's like being a poo poo head.
laughingwithgingers: Yep. If somebody's no fun, um they ah then they are being a wet rag.
KRISTINA: No one likes a wet rag.
laughingwithgingers: No one likes a wet rag.
KRISTINA: It's kind of a gross description.
laughingwithgingers: It really is. It really is. Do you want to give me some more of yours?
KRISTINA: Yes, so ah there is a word I definitely haven't used this. um And I guess I heard it, but I didn't know exactly what it meant, but it's the word bet.
KRISTINA: B -E -T. So it's used to express agreement, confirmation, or understanding. Like, we're meeting at seven, right? And then the other person responds, bet.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, like you bet.
KRISTINA: Yeah. Yeah. They can't be bothered to say you.
laughingwithgingers: It's like when people started saying whatever, because they couldn't be bothered to say whatever.
KRISTINA: Yeah.
KRISTINA: Time is of the essence.
laughingwithgingers: It's so weird. I mean, charisma is like that too. Riz is like that too, you know?
KRISTINA: Exactly. um Or, you know, the acronym GOAT. You can't just claim someone is greatest of all time. ah It's so weird.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, I mean, unless they're claiming it about me, then in which case they would be correct.
KRISTINA: But then I'm OK with it.
KRISTINA: Oh, God.
laughingwithgingers: um You want to give me another one or you want me to go?
KRISTINA: All right.
KRISTINA: I'm throwing it to you.
laughingwithgingers: All right. um Shindig.
KRISTINA: Oh, yeah, I totally said that. I feel like I still do.
laughingwithgingers: I might also still say it.
KRISTINA: ah
laughingwithgingers: I don't know. um So it's not just a party.
KRISTINA: um
laughingwithgingers: It's a shindig. It grew in popularity during the 60s because of a wildly popular TV show called shindig, which I have never heard of.
KRISTINA: No, me neither.
laughingwithgingers: um Where you could catch performances by hot artists like James Brown, the Beach Boys and Tina Turner. um So to describe your party as a shindig meant it was so groovy, Sunny and Cher might show up.
KRISTINA: I just use it as like a blanket term of like a get together, you know?
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, yeah, i I would have never thought of it that way.
KRISTINA: Yeah, it was like an elevated fanciness.
laughingwithgingers: What about psych?
KRISTINA: Oh, my God. I think I definitely use that when I was a kid. Mm hmm. It's so ridiculous. I feel like Bart Simpson made that popular or something.
laughingwithgingers: Oh my God, probably. um When something is presented and then it's quickly taken away, this is a taunting jovial or a taunting word for jovial denial. So um it would be like me saying, hey, Christina, you want to um you want a piece of gum? Sure, here you go. And then I pull the pull it away and go, psych.
laughingwithgingers: It's so dumb.
KRISTINA: It's so ridiculous, like I definitely said that as a kid. It's a kid of the 90s right there.
laughingwithgingers: Yep, yep. What about cool beans?
KRISTINA: Oh, yeah, definitely.
laughingwithgingers: Use it in a sentence, Christina.
KRISTINA: I think Sarah is cool beans.
laughingwithgingers: So it means like, um Basically, it's an expression of approval, I guess is how I would describe it.
KRISTINA: yeah yeah It means you're a cool beans. What's the origin of that?
laughingwithgingers: I don't know.
KRISTINA: So weird. I definitely use those as a kid.
laughingwithgingers: It's so weird. It's so weird. um Do you want to give me how many more do you have?
KRISTINA: um One, two, three.
laughingwithgingers: Okay, you want to give me one more and then I'll give you two?
KRISTINA: Yeah. OK, so the most popular Gen Z slang word right now, according to the Internet, is Dalulu.
laughingwithgingers: Delusional.
KRISTINA: Yeah, yeah, delusional thinking or delusional behavior. Commonly used to dismiss unrealistic or irrational ideas.
KRISTINA: Delulu. It's kind of funny. I like it. I might have to use it.
laughingwithgingers: there's
laughingwithgingers: There's probably not until the rest of the cool kids stop using it though.
KRISTINA: I know, I know. Well, as soon as I start using it, they're going to be like, mer no, can't use that word now.
laughingwithgingers: but
laughingwithgingers: ah What about this one, Christina? Did you ever use the phrase don't have a cow?
KRISTINA: Oh, God, I'm sure seven year old k Christina thought it was so funny and totally said that to my mom.
laughingwithgingers: That is exactly what I think happened with me. um So when you're getting too emotional or upset about something, you're having a cow. How exactly a cow is being had is open -term irritation.
KRISTINA: Had.
laughingwithgingers: Are you giving birth to the cow?
laughingwithgingers: Are you inviting the cow home? um
KRISTINA: I mean, this is on Bart Simpson again, I think.
laughingwithgingers: It is, actually. that is this He is credited with this one. um so he I think invented the or they invented this for Bart Simpson. um
KRISTINA: Oh my gosh.
laughingwithgingers: so he says ah When he says, don't have a cow, seriously, don't do that, um then today, of course, it's something that only older people say.
KRISTINA: Oh, God. I mean, I think I grew out of it pretty quick.
KRISTINA: Oh, no.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, man. It is a really cute little saying now I always imagined the cow is like a small cow that you were just like bringing home. you Like on a little rope leash.
KRISTINA: I always was like, am I birthing a cow?
laughingwithgingers: Honestly, that's probably more likely what it meant. But I like my visual better.
KRISTINA: Yeah, yours is better, honestly.
laughingwithgingers: Do you want to give me your last one and then I'll give you two more?
KRISTINA: Yeah, okay, so I have two that are actually like ah related to the area that you live in.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, right.
laughingwithgingers: Oh.
KRISTINA: So there's Chicago slang words, where I've not ever heard of them, but one is called a French room. And it refers to the front room of a bungalow or a flat, typically positioned overlooking the street. And the space often houses the family's finest furniture, but is primarily reserved for entertaining guests and or unwrapping Christmas presents.
laughingwithgingers: Ah, that's a living room for us.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm. Yeah. So I guess French room meaning like fun, but lunch room, but like also like fancy and, you know, all that wrapped into one. um And then there's a ah word called gangway, which denotes the sidewalk situated between two houses in a narrow space, which I think they mean an alleyway.
laughingwithgingers: That that's what it sounds like.
KRISTINA: Yeah, but they call it a gangway.
KRISTINA: I know it's like, does that mean it's like, you know, like gangs, like gangsters? It's they're like.
laughingwithgingers: Like gang activity.
KRISTINA: Yeah, yeah, in the dark alleyway.
laughingwithgingers: Maybe we always had graffiti in our alley.
KRISTINA: ye I mean, garbage goes there and people running for under the cover of a night.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, you know, huh. I have never heard of either of those.
KRISTINA: Yeah.
KRISTINA: Me neither. But I don't live in Chicago.
laughingwithgingers: And yeah, well, I don't either. And also, I'm not from Chicago. And it's halfway between us.
KRISTINA: Exactly.
laughingwithgingers: It's toward me and toward you. we We could meet there. It would be about the same distance to fly.
KRISTINA: ah Yeah, I would. It would. It's kind of smack in the middle.
laughingwithgingers: All right, have you ever slash do you still use this word? Word.
KRISTINA: Yes, and yes.
laughingwithgingers: Oh my God, you still use.
KRISTINA: I think I use it in like ironic ways.
laughingwithgingers: ah
KRISTINA: you know
KRISTINA: ah Just to be funny.
laughingwithgingers: Oh my gosh. um So for all of you out there who don't know, um word was sort of a punctuation that either you said or someone else said back to you. So shouting word essentially means I rest my case, which is not how I would describe it. But that's how this article does. So ah yeah, you wouldn't either. It's like, I would say that's the word. Like, it's just like a And it can also be used, yeah, it also can be used as a yes.
KRISTINA: It's an agreement.
KRISTINA: Yeah, exactly. It could be a yes, an agreement, a confirmation, or just an end to that discussion.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, exactly. um Which I guess is what they mean by I rest my case, but that seems like not how I would describe it.
KRISTINA: Like we're ending this.
KRISTINA: Oh, yeah.
laughingwithgingers: um
KRISTINA: me
laughingwithgingers: And if you add to your mother, mother that really settles it.
KRISTINA: right
laughingwithgingers: Oh my God, word has been delivered to your mother, so don't even bother with a counter argument.
KRISTINA: no
KRISTINA: Don't even. I think LL Cool J said that word to your mother.
laughingwithgingers: Oh my God. Yes, he did. Remember there was that song, Word Up?
KRISTINA: Yeah. yeah
laughingwithgingers: ah Oh my God, so funny. Okay, I will give you one more.
laughingwithgingers: Talk to the hand.
KRISTINA: Because the face don't look that way. How do I finish that?
laughingwithgingers: The face isn't li or ain't listening.
KRISTINA: Can't listen in something like that.
laughingwithgingers: Isn't that what it is?
KRISTINA: Yeah, something like.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah.
KRISTINA: Oh, my God, that's so ridiculous.
laughingwithgingers: So whatever the other person is trying to tell you, you are rejecting when you say talk to the hand and it had a hand motion to it was like your hand like swooped over your shoulder like
KRISTINA: Yeah, talk to the hand.
laughingwithgingers: There's like a ah rotation with it, like, yeah, like a stop to the word up stock.
KRISTINA: There's a whole dance. There's a whole dance to it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's so funny.
laughingwithgingers: So it means you're no longer interested in the conversation. And if they want to continue anyway, well, they are welcome to direct their grievances toward your open palm that you have in their face.
KRISTINA: It's a very professional way of describing that.
laughingwithgingers: Oh, God, I have 100 of these. So we can definitely do more.
KRISTINA: Oh my God. Oh my God. TBD.
KRISTINA: a
laughingwithgingers: Oh, my God, there's so many that came from clueless or that clueless made popular.
KRISTINA: Oh.
laughingwithgingers: um As you go further down, it's just so funny because these are all organized by like what you
KRISTINA: i
laughingwithgingers: like decade they actually were said.
KRISTINA: Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, like Christina.
KRISTINA: As if.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, that's, that's on here. um God, I forgot about that.
KRISTINA: He's a Monet.
laughingwithgingers: So for reference, everyone as if is a sarcastic retort to a preposterous suggestion.
KRISTINA: you
laughingwithgingers: So, um like, he thinks he's gonna get married and have a bunch of kids with me as if. Like I can't even. That's, it's been.
KRISTINA: i i it's Yeah, I can't even like a upgraded version. I definitely said both of those.
laughingwithgingers: Oh God, my favorite is when, cause there were so many in like the nineties that came with a hand motion.
KRISTINA: ah
KRISTINA: he
KRISTINA: who Yeah, we were very ah gesture heavy.
laughingwithgingers: Yes. When you delivered an insult, you punctuated it with a gesticulation.
KRISTINA: Wait, there was to like too legit to quit. can't I don't remember. I don't remember how to do it.
laughingwithgingers: Oh my god.
KRISTINA: Do you remember that one?
laughingwithgingers: Was that LL Cool J too?
KRISTINA: No, it was a different group.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, who was that?
KRISTINA: um um Oh my God, I'm blinking.
laughingwithgingers: And now I want to say digital underground, but I don't think that's who it is either.
KRISTINA: It was too legit to quit. Hey, hey.
laughingwithgingers: Too legit, too legit, too quit.
KRISTINA: Oh, God, who was it?
laughingwithgingers: um
KRISTINA: I can't. I can't. I can't think of it, but that was definitely a gesture heavy slang thing.
laughingwithgingers: It was da the 90s, we talked with our hands.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm.
laughingwithgingers: A lot.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm.
laughingwithgingers: And we, we did a lot of songs around our weird slang too.
KRISTINA: Mm hmm. Yeah, we did. You're right. They're they're not doing that these days.
laughingwithgingers: I mean, there's, the slang is very different in the 2000s and beyond too, because like they were, a lot of it was phrases.
KRISTINA: Maybe they are. I don't know.
KRISTINA: hu Yeah, not just a word.
laughingwithgingers: Um, who
laughingwithgingers: Yeah. And a lot of it wasn't necessarily nice either.
KRISTINA: yeah e
laughingwithgingers: So it was like if you had a beef song, it would be around, yeah, different times.
KRISTINA: unprecedented.
laughingwithgingers: They precedent.
KRISTINA: ah That was a fun little memory lane there.
laughingwithgingers: Yeah, I thought you might enjoy that.
KRISTINA: We have we might have to do more.
laughingwithgingers: I like, yeah, we definitely can.
KRISTINA: ah ah Anyway, thanks everyone for joining us today on this memory lane of laughing with gingers.
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