“Tie One On” response from bartender

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Any-Section8203@reddit

I was with friends recently, one is 40 and when I said “thanks Easter Bunny bock bock” she thought I was drunk. I wasn’t and my other friends (50-55) all laughed and we said it all night. I really hope someone else remembers that.

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Wrong_Pen6179@reddit

I still say that!

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

Me too!

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ThisMomIsAMother@reddit

Me three

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Reader47b@reddit

I had to Google that to learn what you were talking about, but as soon as the commercial started playing, I remembered...

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Tinytiger1973@reddit

I was born in 1973 and I'm quite familiar with that term. Also "three sheets to the wind" and "drunk as a skunk", neither of which I "get" honestly.

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Reader47b@reddit

I don't get drunk as a boiled owl either. Are these animals known for their heavy drinking?

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Admirable-Bar-3549@reddit

I think the owl’s drinking days are over…

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milominder080210@reddit

Three sheets is way older, it’s a nautical term for when all your sails are loose and uncontrolled. Hence sloppy drunk. I still use it, despite no longer being a sailor from the 1800’s

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brianb8976@reddit

Thanks for that explanation. I never heard that. I have known that phrase and its meaning for years; but, I never knew where it came from.

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pocketdare@reddit

Did you used to be a sailor from the 1800's?

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EveryoneGetsACat@reddit

my mom would say my dad had his shoes full when he tied one on

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GeneralJavaholic@reddit

I love that one. My mind went everywhere. So descriptive.

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kidde1@reddit

Don’t forget “Drunker than Cooter Brown!”

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Tinytiger1973@reddit

I forgot about that one. 😁 I always wondered who the hell Cooter Brown was.

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Effective_Farmer_119@reddit

Three sheets to the wind could be regional? I’m old and I’ve never heard it. Tie one on is normal to me.

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AntheaBrainhooke@reddit

A few years back I had to explain "Film at 11" to a young person. You'd have thought I was talking about dinosaur times.

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SGT_Apone@reddit

this makes me think of Kentucky Fried Movie lol

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Big_Statistician2566@reddit

I have an alarm on my phone that goes off at 5pm and says “Time to make the donuts” to remind me to make dinner. The kids all want to know why we never have donuts.

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brianb8976@reddit

That's good. I remember that commercial. Sometimes just being able to use a line like that is all the fun.

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tomnevers99@reddit

I did a “yadda yadda yadda” the other day at lunch and my younger coworkers were genuinely mystified. I had to explain “it’s a line from Seinfeld.” “Oh”one of them replied, “my dad used to love that show.”

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brianb8976@reddit

The "my dad used to love that show" had to get thrown in. A little dig from the younger generation.

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pocketdare@reddit

But they all seem to know Friends. It had a resurgence among Gen Z.

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PrognosticPeriwinkle@reddit

I’ve gotten a similar reaction with “No soup for you!”. Sigh.

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smokiechick@reddit

No. I mentioned the bisque 🦞

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JasonMaggini@reddit

I grew up with Silent/Greatest-Gen grandparents, so not so much slang, but occasionally I'll use really old references, without thinking about it.

For example, I recently referred to "Fibber McGee's closet" to describe a cluttered storage room at work.

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NotoldyetMaggot@reddit

My husband used to call that "Fred Sanford's garage" at work, nobody else ever got it but I was always laughing my ass off.

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BravestBlossom@reddit

That's awesome. I dated a boy who spent a lot of time with his grandparents, and he referred to the movies as "the pictures", aw man. Love that kind of thing!!

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JohnnyRelentless@reddit

They had slang back then, too.

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JasonMaggini@reddit

True, but there wasn't as much used that I picked up like I did the old pop culture references.

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cormunicat@reddit

I was mentoring a younger colleague fresh out of school and mentioned that it felt like Groundhog Day. He said (approximately), “the day in February when they bring the groundhog out to see his shadow?” Like, it’s not even cold out why would it feel like February and that day specifically?

His parents are Gen X like me, how have they not said this to him before? I was tickled actually, he’s a good kid.

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NotoldyetMaggot@reddit

How has he not seen or at least know about the movie?!

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RetroBerner@reddit

I'm 47 and I have no idea what that means, might be regional

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Reader47b@reddit

The region being North America.

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cleg74@reddit

My staff don’t even know who the Beastie Boys are.

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OkHighlight6213@reddit

Fire them!! That’s an abomination right there. Kidding (kind of)😝

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NotoldyetMaggot@reddit

I was going to say this! Joking, but...

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Any-Section8203@reddit

This one shocks me more than anything else in this thread but to be honest I have no clue if my boys 26 & 23 know because one listens to Old school outlaw country and the other listens to whatever one year olds like lol but my 21 year old daughter knows

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Low_Cook_5235@reddit

about 10 yrs ago my kids were into watching the classic Batman TV show. They turned it on when our babysitter was there and she said Mayor Adam West is a real person?!

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DaftPump@reddit

They've no right to party.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

No way

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actual-trevor@reddit

It's a shame that the younger generations don't even know who fought for their right to party.

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kayakdead69@reddit

Anytime a make a reference/joke from and older movie like Animal House or Blue Brothers Im am left standing out in the cold with anyone younger than 45.

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stefanica@reddit

I had a bad habit of forgetting that I watched so many comedy films only on network TV, full of overdubbed curses and objectionable scenes I never saw because they had been cut completely. Kids, we're gonna watch Revenge of the Nerds tonight! 😔

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kayakdead69@reddit

We've got bush!

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RevolutionaryAd851@reddit

I came out of surgery after an accident and my head and face were bandaged totally. I was still out of it and I yelled, "I am not an animal!" thinking they would understand the "Elephant Man"quote and they all just looked at one another.

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pocketdare@reddit

Ha. Did you say it with the slurred voice and everything?

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user86753092@reddit

😂😂😂😂😂

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

I often wonder if these stories are outliers, or if gen z is way less in touch with things of the past than we were.

I knew all the 50's music and references from my parents, and even older shit from the 20's and 30's from my grandparents, like big band music and the actors she liked.

Hell the wizard of oz was from 1939 and we watched it every year.

I was just in another thread about names and this guy was talking about knowing a white tyrone and I said that name actually reminds me of the old actor, tyrone powell.

With the whole of the internet and social media, you'd think it'd be the opposite and they'd know even more references from the past than we did. But I guess they'd need to be interested enough to look and maybe they're just not?

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Curious-Pirate-1776@reddit

Younger generations don’t have to assimilate their parents’ culture like we did so that our parents might pay attention to us. Kids went from being seen and not heard to “isn’t so and so precious?”with parents being more invested in their kid’s culture than their own.

We also got more points of access to entertainment and businesses figured out that younger Boomers no longer had disposable income and were spending all of it on their kids, who turned out to be a growing subset of the population.

I first noticed this with Millennials. I’m right at the cutoff point and noticed a huge difference between my friends who had older siblings and friends with younger siblings.

Think about it. We all grew up with the same Fisher-Price toys for decades. The popcorn vacuum, the rolly horse, the stacking rings, the little people farm. Universal to any attic, basement, or doctor’s office waiting room, we all had the same stuff.

Then suddenly new versions of everything came out. First in pastel, then the black/white/teal/lime green Baby Einstein colors for brain development. Products and merch for every little sub genre instead of the like 1 big kid movie every year. (George Lucas is a teensy bit to blame for starting this).

We went from 13 channels to HBO to cable. There’s airtime to fill and money to be made from merch. We end up with Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and all the dang “mischievous child smarter than the adults” movies. (I refuse to count MTV in this group)

We had TVs in more rooms and we didn’t all watch the same thing anymore, which has now expanded exponentially with streaming, social media, and smartphones.

Case in point? I had to explain to a 30-year-old coworker who Mr. Rogers was this week. Never heard of him. Grew up with plenty of other options and didn’t watch PBS. Couldn’t believe the Disney Channel didn’t exist when I was little. But she knows who Daniel Tiger is, so I guess there is some validity to doing reboots!

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GroundbreakingRip970@reddit

They are able to find an abundance of media that is targeted directly at them and their demographic. We grew up watching whatever was on tv or in print at the time and often the choices were made by our parents or other family members

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notabadkid92@reddit

True. I saw enough John Wayne to last a lifetime, lol. Our son is 12 & we are 50 so he is exposed to all that remains in our memory & in our life, plus the new stuff. He doesn't have any access to the internet except through my Google account, & no social media so he isn't being targeted, yet. So, parents can decide what & how much their child is exposed to.

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notabadkid92@reddit

Take all that then add everything made since. It's way more media & pop culture than we ever had to draw from.

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jonwar5@reddit

The entertainment apocalypse is upon us!

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ontime1969@reddit

My Grandmother told me when I was a kid when we were watching some old black and white movie where that the phrase "tying one on" came from at least what she said.

In the movie a city guy kept opening a window in his home pulling up on a rope and getting a bottle of booze from outside and taking a drink. I asked my grandma is that like when you send me stuff in my tree house? (I would pull stuff up in a basket She out in there)

She said no, He is "Tying one on, again" and thats how they hid it from his wife. If she finds out she will break them.

So allegedly in late 19th century when there were large immigrant populations in the cities on the eastern sea board. Larger buildings were being build. People would hid bottles of alcohol from spouses by tying a string to the top of a booze bottles and hanging them from a small nail from the windows of their tenet buildings. Thats one theory I am sure there are others. I do remember there was a outside view of a 10 or 15 story building and there were like bottles hanging out of a ton of windows. Sort of funny when I think back.

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

Might have been hanging out there to keep cold. Personally, in the colder months i will often put a beverage in between my window and screen to keep cold overnight. I doubt there was really effective refrigeration in tenements back then 🤷🏼‍♀️

Seems unlikely to be much of a secret from the spouse if you could see them dangling all over the outside of the building 🤷🏼‍♀️

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ryguymcsly@reddit

There are *lots* of exterior parts of a building in Manhattan you might live in but never see. The back of the building might not be accessible by tenants at all and there's no alley back there so it's not visible from any street. There are also commonly interior windows that face either another building or a weird little air shaft for rooms that need windows but because all the buildings are right up next to each other there's no way to see them from anywhere unless you crawl out of a ground floor window in the same room of another unit.

A friend of mine used to hide his porn and weed in a plastic bag tied on a nail in the same way. His mom never found either. He had one of those weird windows that just faced a brick wall of the building next door.

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Apart-Cream-4940@reddit

We used to do that in college. We'd get ice cream in the winter then put it outside the window

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

Totally!!! Same!! I lived on the upper west side of Manhattan at the time in a shared SRO with the only window on the air shaft; we totally hung our ice cream out the window!! I had completely forgotten about that until i read your comment!! 😄👍🏼

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cockblockedbydestiny@reddit

That movie has gotta be "The Lost Weekend" from 1945. A quick Google search shows the phrase is of unknown origin but became popular around that time period, so it's possible it originated with the movie but I can't find a single conjecture that ties it to the film.

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kidde1@reddit

Heck of a movie reference, I’ve not thought of it in nearly half a century!

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Disassociated_Assoc@reddit

Norm!

I’m sure that wouldn’t be recognized by the younger generations.

Also sounds like the likeness could easily apply to you, given your friends at that establishment, and the warm greeting you receive when arriving.

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

My ex husband was in the theater seeing a movie that George Wendt was in and actually yelled “Norm!” When he came on screen the first time.

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IRingTwyce@reddit

My 2 favorite 'Normisms' of all time:

1) What are you up to Norm? 'My ideal weight if I was 11 feet tall.'

2) It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear.

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SN_Mac_91@reddit

Not a Normism per se, but one of my favorites is where this random guy comes in, says he was living out of state for a long time and hasn't been in the bar in 30 years, then starts pointing out all the stuff that's changed, and after point at a wall, Woody (I think) says you mean over there and he replies, no, over there behind Norm.

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iftheygivinitaway@reddit

Cracks me up every time.

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ATGSunCoach@reddit

Woody: “Beer, Norm?”

Norm: “A lil early isn’t it?”

Woody: “For a beer?”

Norm: “No, for stupid questions. Of course I’ll have a beer.”

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SlowPokeInTexas@reddit

I'm GenX but have never been a huge drinker- what exactly does it mean?

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WhiteyDude@reddit

getting fucked up. Over doing it.

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SlowPokeInTexas@reddit

Ah, getting "tore-up from the floor up!'

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blackom@reddit

I was talking to a younger coworker about life in the 80's, and I had to explain what 'getting blotto' meant.

I think I aged 900 years that day. So dunzo.

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umair01@reddit

Same, maybe it's regional; more common east coast? I'm on the west coast and never heard it before..

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AntheaBrainhooke@reddit

New Zealander here and it was reasonably common

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IRingTwyce@reddit

Non-drinking Texan and I know it too.

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suburbanplankton@reddit

Not regional. Born and raised in California, and I've always been familiar with the phrase.

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spikewilliams2@reddit

I never heard of it either. Google says to get drunk, the meaning being like tying on a nose bag.

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Mimble75@reddit

To tie one on is to drink too much and get really drunk.

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GeneralJavaholic@reddit

"Tie one on" dies with us? Daaaaammn.

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Persy0376@reddit

I used “Stay golden Pony boy” the other day and my coworker just stopped and looked at me funny. Luckily someone close by chuckled.

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Green_Aide_9329@reddit

How can they not have even read The Outsiders?! My 16yo read it in high school 2 years ago!

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Tinytiger1973@reddit

Sacrilege!

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Deaner_dub@reddit

Plenty of school boards have banned the Outsiders. It hurts baby jesus or something.

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KrofftSurvivor@reddit

That's weird as fuck - used to be assigned reading!

So I looked this up, and it turns out there were a lot of attempts to ban it in the 90's due to gang violence, but it is still part of the curriculum in most districts for middle school or high school.

Apparently there are also school districts that have been accused of banning it that have responded publicly with saying that it's never been banned, and they teach it, so that's weird.

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Deaner_dub@reddit

I should say that I haven’t checked my own facts here.

It’s been in the news over the years about being banned. I think I saw it in a banned books section of a books store recently- but that’s marketing.

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GenX-ModTeam@reddit

Misleading Content - Misinformation, disinformation, anti-science, pseudoscience, or any other misleading posts/commentary will be removed.

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GenX-ModTeam@reddit

Misleading Content - Misinformation, disinformation, anti-science, pseudoscience, or any other misleading posts/commentary will be removed.

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memento_morrissey@reddit

Let's do it for Johnny!

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Mr_Mumbercycle@reddit

I remember when we read it in high school. I was in this whole Strat Cats rockabilly phase complete with leather jacket. It was like our English teacher had done a personal favor for my dating life.

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Legitimate-Donkey477@reddit

I still teach The Outsiders to freshmen and they eat it up.

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SignificantApricot69@reddit

I read “That Was Then, This is Now” in middle school but never read the Outsiders

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Bob_Sacamano7379@reddit

Tiny correction: Stay gold, Ponyboy

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Acceptable_Stop2361@reddit

If you tie one on your probably three sheets to the wind. That said, let's blow this Popsicle stand.

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cash5724@reddit

I say "let's blow this popsicle stand" every Friday when I leave work.

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Tinytiger1973@reddit

I say "let's blow this joint".

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

I thought it was a taco stand 🧐😄

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Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit

sun's over the yardarm ...

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MaSpoonIs2Big@reddit

My kids were very confused when I said that I was tired so I was going to "crash out". Today that means to freak out about something.

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NothingNewOnEarth@reddit

I was so confused at first seeing kids text “FTW”. I grew up punk-scene-adjacent in the 90s and I only knew that as “F*ck The World”. lol

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TheCenterOfEnnui@reddit

My kids are 24 and 27 and they know what that means. And we're not heavy drinkers.

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oh_what_a_surprise@reddit

I'm from the 70s and I've never stopped saying "Right on" and "Far out". They just come out of my mouth.

For decades no one else used them. For decades I got funny faces from people. For a time in the 90s people actually mocked me when I would say them.

Now, I've been hearing "Right on" again from the kids. And no one looks at me funny. I even heard a character on a new TV show say, "Far out" the other day.

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hondo9999@reddit

My much older brother-in-law would say, “Right arm!” and “Farm out!” back in those days just to be goofy. Miss that guy.

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jkki1999@reddit

When I say “3 sheets to the wind” young people look at me weird.

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hondo9999@reddit

Used to be a cool bar/pub near me called “3 Sheets” with a British double-decker bus parked out front. They had awesome food too and I miss it so much. 😢

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ThatOldG@reddit

It’s been ages since I’ve heard tying one on

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AuntJibbie@reddit

Almost every damn day, lol.

Congrat's on getting off the meds!

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Happy_Machine_1@reddit

Copacetic— no one in my office under 45 knew that word.

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

Did you know that copacetic is likely totally a made-up word invented by an author for a 1919 book?

I actually found This cool link on another reddit post discussing this very word!

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Zinjifrah@reddit

Now that's a bodacious term.

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

lol nice😂✌🏻

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arcenierin@reddit

Blame Local H for those over 45 knowing the word, tbh...

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SacriliciousQ@reddit

I'm 53 and know what "copacetic" is but have no idea what Local H is.

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SBInCB@reddit

Searched. Some 90’s band that never made it.

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Scary_Film2478@reddit

Not sure what your definition of “made it” is, but a 2 man band that has been touring since 1990 must be doing something right.

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Happy_Machine_1@reddit

Actually it has nothing to do with local H. That word has been used since the 1920s.

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EarlyMoose2481@reddit

I have this feeling that I learned the word from a sitcom such as Cheers or Night Court.

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arcenierin@reddit

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GoWestGirl@reddit

The same thing happened to me a few months ago.

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cwcharlton@reddit

I love that word!

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

I work in an elementary school. A substitute who the kids love (a Boomer) was at lunch and it was meatballs that day. A kid dropped a meatball and the teacher starting singing the “meatball song.” *On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese…*

These kids had no idea what this was. We sang it all the time. No idea where/when it originated but when we were kids it was memorized.

I say “Time to make the donuts!” when leaving for work and my son looks at me weird. I love using that line going into work.

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chapaj@reddit

I've only heard that meatball song in movies or shows. Never heard it in real life. I'm 48.

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

Northern Virginia, we definitely sang that on elementary school, I’d just forgotten about it 😄

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

I’ll be 55 soon. Maybe it’s a regional thing. I’m Great Lakes region.

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SoniaFantastica@reddit

I'm 56, grew up in southern AZ, and we sang it in elementary school. (I still sing it quietly in my head when I see/eat spaghetti.)

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OryxTempel@reddit

Sang it in Tucson

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Volleyballmom23@reddit

I'm in the Northeast US, and we sang it at Girl Scouts and on school bus trips.

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DorktorJones@reddit

We learned it probably around 3rd grade from our teacher. I remember singing it in class. Denver area. 🙂

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Unique-Quantity4542@reddit

We had an album with a bunch of kids songs.

Pretty sure this was it ^(\^)

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

Cool! That’s the one! Love it

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Acceptable_Stop2361@reddit

We did the meatball song in second grade music class.

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Pointless_Lawndarts@reddit

Was this “boomer” around 75 years old?

Please say yes.

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

Actually yes! He’s retired but still wants to be involved.

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lopix@reddit

Yeah... we've hit that point. If my wife and I speak 80s or 90s slang, our teenage kids have no idea what we're talking about. And if they speak in their Gen Z slang, we have no idea what they're talking about.

I now officially have no idea what the kids today are talking about.

Fuck.

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wezelboy@reddit

I cringe every time my kid says skibidi. That shit is so over already.

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AntheaBrainhooke@reddit

If you want them to stop using it, start using it yourself. They'll declare you and it to be cringe and move on to the next idiom you'll hate.

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lopix@reddit

THANK DOG mine never said that. And mocked anyone who did. But they say all sorts of other weird stuff.

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lime_lecroix@reddit

Yep, same here. My 16 year old keeps calling me “twin” and it’s driving me crazy. Along with all the other “crash out” and “”about to slime you out” and all that other nonsense.

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OhSassafrass@reddit

Aww, twin is a form of endearment!

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lime_lecroix@reddit

Yeah, I know nuts just that not too long ago I was referred to as “fam” and then it changed. 😂

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Coppergirl1@reddit

Six seven

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topsyturvy76@reddit

Dead ass, no cap!

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Steakonanopenfire@reddit

One of the great things about being a parent of teenagers is using their slang wrong and making them cringe. Never to embarrass them in front of their friends (unless they are close friends we know)

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OryxTempel@reddit

Remember all those sayings for “I’m going to leave now”? Yesterday I said to my younger coworkers, “I’m gonna make like a baby and head out” and they all groaned and laughed like they’d never heard it. We used to sit around thinking up different ways to say it.

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3secondcountdown@reddit

Make like a tree and leaf!

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Spickernell@reddit

my dear friend who was the epitome of gen x and also drank himself to death at age 56 used to say "lets make like a tree and get the fuck out of here". miss him every day

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Lima3Echo@reddit

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AntheaBrainhooke@reddit

... and f... f... f... FUCK OFF!

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Positive_Ad_1751@reddit

Lettuce get outta here... :)

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theBananagodX@reddit

Similar vein is Duckie’s “I’m off like a dirty shirt!”

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copernicus8843@reddit

I’m off like a prom dress

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ontime1969@reddit

That was one of our favorites.

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umair01@reddit

I'm Audi 5000

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primeweevil@reddit

Outy Like A Saudi

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

On the way out we'd say '5000'.

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SN_Mac_91@reddit

I occasionally like to quote Biff, "lets make like a tree and get out of here" just to mess with everyone.

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Lima3Echo@reddit

You gotta slap your knee and say “whelp…” as you stand before making these statements

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GmaDoo2@reddit

Fellow Midwesterner? 😂

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Lima3Echo@reddit

You would think so with my use of words like “whelp” and phrases like “ope, let me squeeze right past ya” but alas, PNW born and raised!

Great grandparents were from the Midwest though and went west along the Northern route of the Oregon Trail.

The casserole gene is strong in my family though!

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gargoyle030@reddit

I have noticed that casserole is also pretty strong in Lutherans. Grew up son of a Lutheran minister, and church basement potluck was casseroles from one end of the row of tables to the other.

I still hate 95% of all casseroles. Possibly 99%.

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umair01@reddit

I'm Audi 5000

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QueenRotidder@reddit

make like a tree and… get outta here

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3secondcountdown@reddit

Biff, that you?

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JoeNoble1973@reddit

“Let’s blow this pop stand” is met with stares by my children

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jolly_bien-@reddit

The youth still seems to understand “let’s bounce”

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dae_giovanni@reddit

...make like a drum and beat it

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151Ways@reddit

Like Pee Wee...

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Certain-List-6779@reddit

I think the youngin’s call that a “low key” night out now . 😜

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eperker@reddit

I high key can’t stand the overuse of that one.

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seeingeyegod@reddit

unironically dead ass low key annoying

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Lucky_Dragonfruit_88@reddit

Low key agree

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Certain-List-6779@reddit

Agreed! Drives me insane 🥴

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AlarmedTelephone5908@reddit

6-7

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Certain-List-6779@reddit

😂

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Ziggity_Zac@reddit

Clock it!

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Duke-of-Glenmont@reddit

I was nursing a bit of a hangover once and a younger co-worker asked me what was wrong. I said I got involved with John Barleycorn last night. He said “I don’t know him.” I am pretty sure that was even before us Gen X people. lol.

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

That seems to be a major difference between Gen X and everything that came afterwards. We are knowledgeable of what came before us, and use their references and slang freely. Somehow there's a wall from Millennial onwards, where they know nothing of what came before. It's very odd.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

That's what I said.

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Lucky_Dragonfruit_88@reddit

Because mono-culture is dead and everyone has their own algorithm. We aren't all tuning in to Walter Kronkite every night.

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Passing_Open_Windows@reddit

Yes! I've had Millennial coworkers reply "before my time" to my references to classic TV or music. I wasn't alive in the 60s either, bitch, I'm just culturally literate.

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OkHighlight6213@reddit

They’re clueless, much like the movie they claim is theirs!🙄🙄🙄

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ontime1969@reddit

Right, I hate that they all believe history started with "thier" person awareness. It so common with Millennials and below.

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Sarsmi@reddit

I, too, watched a lot of nick at night during the summers lol.

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DollaBill89@reddit

My daughter had an epiphany about why everyone her parents age knew & remembered all the same commercials and why everyone her age have no such connection or shared memory (she’s 24)… now, ads are targeted & because of streaming & algorithms, not everyone sees the same ad. Back when there were 3 channels, every ad was targeted at EVERYONE. She feels the disconnect.

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Xiolaglori@reddit

It was easier for us to have connections to the past because there were only three channels and we saw lots of reruns from the '60s like Gilligan's Island. It's why my elderly clients like me, because even though I might not know every movie that so and so actor was in, I at least recognize their names.

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jonwar5@reddit

One of the fun things I used to do with my daughter was show her some of the music I grew up with. She loves Rick James btw.

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JerseyGirlD@reddit

Greater times with greater music. We were so lucky. My daughter loves Slick Rick too

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Spear_Ritual@reddit

I just lean into. I work with young 20s kids and I always say “let’s do it to it, my dudes” like Ben Wyatt from parks n rec.

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lolagoetz_bs@reddit

That goes back to an old Mtn Dew commercial. “Do it to it Mountain Dew!”

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SN_Mac_91@reddit

Wasn't that Snowman's go to phrase in Smokey and the Bandit? Let's do it to it?

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lolagoetz_bs@reddit

Oh I don’t remember! And I watched it not terribly long ago. 😫

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Substantial-Wolf-883@reddit

I say this one all the time, from Heavyweights 1995

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AdhesivenessEqual166@reddit

I used "is it live, or is it Memorex" in a conversation. Everyone was around my age except for one 42 yo guy - he clearly did not get the reference. I immediately said something like you're too young to remember this commercial about cassette tapes and explained it quickly.

Bonus: He was confused because he thought I was only a couple of years older than me. I'm turning 60 this fall. 🤣

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revdon@reddit

I suppose a more modern version would be, "Is it practical or is it CGI?" Maybe, "Is that Real of Photoshopped?"

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AdhesivenessEqual166@reddit

Yeah, but you know I'm not going to use that.

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Angelunatic74@reddit

In the late 1990s, I asked my child to bring me something that was beside the tape deck.
They just stood there so I asked again. Again, nothing. So I asked them to bring me the thing by the cassette player. My child looked at me and said," I don't understand the words that are coming out of your mouth!" It was very amusing. The same child asked my husband what was wrong with the TV when a black and white movie was playing on the TV

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WordleFan88@reddit

I'm sorry, I was busy tying an onion to my belt, as was the fashion when we were young.

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MojoDuff27@reddit

Haha ! You made me cackle in the Chinese restaurant

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SpinachInquisition@reddit

Gimme five bees for a quarter!

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planetfour@reddit

Gimme 5 bees for a quarter my man

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wormil@reddit

Often it seems I'm speaking a different language than anyone under 35. I understand them but they don't understand me or any pop culture references and slang. Even when I reference movies or media from 10-15 years ago -- nothing, blank stares. Unfortunately, I have no friends my own age. They have either moved away, drifted away, or become angry. So I spend most of my time with people half my age.

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RealCrazySwordGirl@reddit

Right?!

I spend most of my time with people 20-25 years younger than me. I make an effort to learn their references and slang 👍🏼 they're usually super happy to show me their music, videos, memes, etc

I love millennials and gen z; they keep me young!

It helps that I'm definitely not one of those "woe to me, I'm getting old, everything sucks" genxers who just wants to dwell in the past. Inside i still feel 30, so why not act like it haha! 👍🏼😄

I think it's actually really sweet and funny when they express things like wishing they had been born early enough to "really experience the nineties" 😆 in the same way that I idealized the sixties (before i was born) back in the day lol

I'll never really understand why people get "old" before their time when they really don't have to. Life isn't just a miserable downhill slide into the grave just because you've had another birthday!!

And before anyone asks, yes, of course my knees hurt, but i do the thing anyway! 😄👍🏼✌🏼

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PuzzleheadedTruth200@reddit

My college students thought I made up the fact that people used to put cement geese on their front porch and dress them up.

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

I pass lIke 4 on the way to work, all of them have a little house with a door.

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Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit

I took a Greyhound bus through a town called Wawa, where i swear every driveway was lined with geese on sticks.

I love a bilingual pun. favourite thing that I saw in Ontario.

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pineapples_are_evil@reddit

Wawa has a giant, if not the biggest statue of a Canadian Goose in front of the hotel/diner on the highway

It's interesting. Wawa was our "mid way" over night stop when driving to Thunder Bay for school from SWO. That was i think still another 4-6 hours... yet. It's been a long time... lol

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ebeth_the_mighty@reddit

Am bilingual. Was today years old when I finally got that geese in Wawa made a pun. “Oie, oie”. Feeling stupid—and chortling.

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Vast_Needleworker_32@reddit

My millennial daughter just discovered porch geese and excitedly described them to me, like we weren’t tripping over cement geese on porches wearing dresses for the entirety of the 90s

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United_Concept1654@reddit

Used to? My goose would like to have a word. They are making a big comeback.

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alicecuriouser@reddit

Right, I just bought my millennial daughter-in-law one for Christmas. They're plastic now though.

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Forsaken-Repeat-7657@reddit

I was born in 75 and didn’t know what this meant. Had to look it up. Maybe some of it is geographical.

That said, I say “old things” all the time and know how you feel.

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Well-well-well@reddit

You are a tweener Gen X like me, I think we belong to the Xillennials. I’ve heard this expression but definitely had no idea what it came from, only that it means getting a drink

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CitySpare7714@reddit

I made a joke about 1950s “bobby soxers” and a young woman in her 20s looked at me, and in all innocence said “Who’s Bobby Soxers?”

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

For reference, the movie: The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, (Cary Grant, Shirley Temple) came out in 1947. So, you may have been going back even further than you thought for that one.

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CitySpare7714@reddit

I know exactly how far back I was going, thanks. That movie came out only 23 years before I was born.

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

You must be the man with the power!

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DepartmentNatural@reddit

Who?

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bbonerz@reddit

Aka "I wanna bop with you, baby"

1985 new country song

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cwcharlton@reddit

Green Day's latest album has a song called Bobby Sox .

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DominicPalladino@reddit

Was she an influencer?

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HZLeyedValkyrie@reddit

remind me of the Dan Seals song “ Put on your Bobbi sox baby”

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kate_the_squirrel@reddit

This post made me grin and remember my dad, who used this phrase a lot and is the reason I know it. I think it’s older than Gen X though! He was actually tail end Silent Generation (born in ‘43).

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sedona71717@reddit

It is an old expression. It seems like the pre-internet generations like us picked up more of those expressions from our parents and grandparents than the post-internet generations have picked up from us. When we went to visit grandma and grandpa, we had to spend many hours sitting around with them, playing cards, talking. Younger generations today have phones to look at during these visits. My theory anyway.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

My dad did too. But for some reason my mother said "get a buzz on" which I found hilarious.

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metametamind@reddit

It’s ok. The pure joy of being GenX is we have never, and never need to, care what the boomers or millennials think.

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OkHighlight6213@reddit

Or Gen Z!!😐🙄😝

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DaoFerret@reddit

The millenials grok us (if they want to).

It’s the Zoomers whose heads we go over.

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TheMrsT@reddit

Amen!

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booleanerror@reddit

I made a Schwarzeneggar reference "boys have a penis. girls have a vagina" and my Gen Z co-worker asked what it was from, and I explained. Her response? "Who's Arnold Schwarzeneggar?".

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brucebigelowsr@reddit

I’m surprised the Gen Zer didn’t lose their mind and try to get you fired for your gender bigotry.

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Gisselle441@reddit

This is why I wouldn't ever even consider dating anyone from Gen Z,even if they actually wanted to date me lol.

I would get tired of constantly explaining things like what a 45 rmp record was or that "time to make the donuts" does not mean I am actually going to make donuts.

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TalFidelis@reddit

Ha. My daughter (22) is a professional baker. She definitely understands (and lives) that reference.

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Sarsmi@reddit

...and also that's pretty gross. The oldest gen z is like 28. Eww.

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Auntie_Venom@reddit

We say “time to make the donuts” all the time! Well… I do. My mom and I used to say it to each other when it was time to get moving for just about everything. We still will before the inevitable “welp” 87 times before actually leaving.

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GooseySill@reddit

I'm born in '73. To be honest, am kinda enjoying becoming the old codger now. Ha ha!

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Charming-Insurance@reddit

Right? I enjoy my afternoon naps and not remembering “important” things. (Spoiler: not so important.) when people comment, I’m like, “eh, I’m old.”

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GooseySill@reddit

Ha! Yep.

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DumbScotus@reddit

I recognize it… but I don’t know that I could explain it to someone who doesn’t.

Like, I know what it means when you are “three sheets to the wind,” but I have no idea where that comes from or how to explain it.

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

“Three sheets” is a 19th century nautical term. “Sheets” refers to the ropes that connect sails to the ship. With three sheets loose and flapping (to the wind), a ship would lurch and stagger uncontrollably, mirroring the movements of a sailor drunk as shit.

I was a bartender for a long time, this kind of amateur pub linguistics was a fun and common exercise. Also, I’m a recovered alcoholic, and we tend to talk about drunk stuff a lot. My favorite antiquated euphemism from the AA big book is “boiled as an owl.” Cracks me up every time.

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TheSpitalian@reddit

Boiled as an owl?! That’s a weird one. I’ve never heard it till this minute.

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

Yeah, it’s a fun one. I hadn’t heard it either until I read the book. Which was originally published in 1939, hence the outdated (if delightful) language. The concept of “whoopie parties” is also in there, which always tickles me.

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primeweevil@reddit

First, Congrats on sobriety especially as a bartender I know that has to be hard as hell.

Did you know Bob Smith did LSD and it could have helped him create the idea behind AA? I had a strange group of guys that I went to meetings with back in the day. Lets just say slightly disgruntled and more aware of the program as a whole rather then just the sobriety. If that makes any sense

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Legitimate_Jump142@reddit

Look at Cliff Clavin up in here

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

I understand this reference, and I will allow it.

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timewilltell2347@reddit

There’s some other drinking idioms described here if you’re curious

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OryxTempel@reddit

For the longest time I thought it referred to bedsheets drying in the sun on a line. In my mind, the wind would come and whip them off the line and they’d go sailing away, lurching and moving with the gusts.

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worrymon@reddit

Three sheets to the wind means your sails aren't tied down and are flapping around. The sheet was a sail.

If the sails aren't kept taut, the ship will lurch as the wind catches them.

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wsox74@reddit

Close, but in sailing, “sheets” are actually the lines (ropes). Not the sails themselves. But yes - if you had three sheets flailing about then your boat would be unsteady, just like a drunk.

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worrymon@reddit

“sheets” are actually the lines (ropes). Not the sails themselves

I guess that makes sense to a drunken sailor...

I do know they're all lines except the bell rope.

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Juanfartez@reddit

Nautical term for having loose sails causing loss of control.

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mouse_attack@reddit

I would have thought that slang was much older than us.

But, I guess my “what are you talking about” moment happened when a coworker asked for my opinion on Johnny Depp and I said that I couldn’t really be objective since I’d fallen in love with him as a teenager when he was on 21 Jumpstreet. My coworker looked at me with literal pity in her eyes and informed me that Channing Tatum was the star of 21 Jumpstreet.

Cue zero productivity for the rest of the afternoon as I schooled my infant colleague on the origins of her beloved pop culture.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Thank you for performing this important service.

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mouse_attack@reddit

Right?

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ontime1969@reddit

Poor coworker.

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onetwentytwo_1-8@reddit

I walked in to a dispensary once and asked for a lid. Everyone was puzzled. 😂

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Lemonhaze666@reddit

GenX here and someone had to explain that to be in my older years.

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tapcaf@reddit

I watched a Cheech and Chong movie during the pandemic and that inspired me to look up 'lid' to see how much dope they were talking about. I watched those guys a lot as a teenager in the early 80's but didn't smoke much weed so I never bothered to learn the lingo.

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ontime1969@reddit

Can I get a lid of your best Labrador and Maui Wowie?

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ParsnipDecent6530@reddit

The other day I was bemoaning the fact that I'd never be understood if I went to a dispensary and requested a lid of grass.

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False-Storm-5794@reddit

I'm trying to picture buying grass without having a bunch of shake in it!

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False-Storm-5794@reddit

I haven't heard that unit of measurement forever!

I wonder how big a dime bag is now? 😁

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romeodread@reddit

GenX here. I understand what it is, but maybe explain it so younger people reading will know?

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

A “lid” is an ounce of weed. It can also mean “hat” which can cause further confusion. Also, apparently, it can refer to an unskilled HAM radio operator, but that cut’s too deep for anyone but seriously upper level old nerds.

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Juanfartez@reddit

I walked into Lids and was disappointed they sold hats.

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elev8or_lady@reddit

Yea this one definitely pre-dates Gen X. My husband (b. 1970) has told me that’s what HIS dad (b. 1943) called it.

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l0st1nP4r4d1ce@reddit

Tying one on is too hard on the body now.

Beer or two, then a gummy to finish off the evening at home.

But I still remember $1 craft beer pint nights in my college town.

And the outrage when the price went to $1.75

Now, $6-8. Ooof.

Plus hangovers suck now.

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Charming-Insurance@reddit

I don’t like beer, but one time in my 20s I was so poor I went to a bar and spent about five dollars and drank all night.

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l0st1nP4r4d1ce@reddit

A beer and a burger are a deal now at $15.

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Charming-Insurance@reddit

Don’t remind me. When I worked at BK, whoppers were .99! Alas, we are the complaining, old people now. 👵🏻👵🏻

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Extension-Wedding-74@reddit

I remember .10 Sunday nights at my favorite college bar. They were smallish plastic cups of draft beer. Good times!

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l0st1nP4r4d1ce@reddit

Our version was $.25 4oz pours.

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Deltron_Zero30@reddit

$0.75 cent pitchers, bring your own pitcher at one of the bars (I think it was the country bar) near my school in southern Georgia. 18 year old me and my friends were in heaven every Thursday night

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hdroadking@reddit

This ☝️

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PaperBead341@reddit

Gen X but I use sayings even older because of lots of time spent with my grandma and my Greatest Generation father. My 23-year-old daughter thinks I'm making them up on the spot and that I'm a brilliant comedian. So it's working for me.

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Possible_Excuse4144@reddit

Someone being "in their cups" = drunk. I think it's crazy old. I also think the context might carry it for a first-time listener?

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mouse_attack@reddit

I’m a big fan of calling someone a “dipso” (short for dipsomaniac), but I don’t fool myself that it was ever a common thing to say in my lifetime.

I watched a LOT of American Movie Classics as a latchkey kid. Back when it was all, like, black and white Ray Milland movies and Robert Osborne intros.

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

My best friend and I spent a lot of time learning to roll a cigarette with one hand like Humphrey Bogart from his old B&W movies. We thought he was the coolest.

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ontime1969@reddit

I learned it from Tom and Jerry.

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DarthGuber@reddit

Only 12 step folks know that one anymore.

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Cat_the_Great@reddit

And gen x

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Helpful_Link1383@reddit

They only know what they are interested in...they hang out with their phones while we had to hang out with people..

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LazyDramaLlama68@reddit

Do people still use the expression "hair of the dog"

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wormil@reddit

Only people our age or older.

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Sarsmi@reddit

Nothing like a little hair of the dog that bit ya.

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Simon-Says69@reddit

Absolutely. My girlfriend disagrees with it, but she doesn't drink much, so what does she know? ;-)

A little alcohol the next day does help clear out the nasty leftovers from tying one on.

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ent_idled@reddit

Fuck no, been bit way too many times, my friend....

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LazyDramaLlama68@reddit

I don't use it anymore either. Was just more for curiosities sake

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cormunicat@reddit

I do! 👋🏻

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MamaPajamaMama@reddit

Ooh I have one! I was away last weekend with some friends - 4 of us Gen X, 2 Millennials. The Millennials had never heard the phrase "I need that like I need a hole in my head" and were rather taken aback by it.

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ontime1969@reddit

I love that our common phrases are so abhorrent to them.

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myeggsarebig@reddit

I told one of my students that she’d be “bored to tears” and she laughed so hard, so I guess we’re funny at least

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doubletwist@reddit

Yesterday I had to help a 20-something running a cash register because she looked at the screen showing that I needed 61¢ change, then looked at me and says something about how much..

I didn't understand her at first, I thought she asked how much she owed me, so I looked at the total again which was $X.39, so said "Yes, 61 cents"

And she said, "No, I'm not good with counting out coins. How do I make 61¢?".

I kind of "Uhhh"'d, and blinked in disbelief before telling her "2 quarters, a dime and a penny" , mentally shaking my head.

I weep for the future.

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Brilliant_Test_3045@reddit

I’m thankful for my first W-2 job @ Burger King when I was 13. I worked drive-thru by myself from 6am-2pm on weekends, plus a night or two during the week (saving up for a car). I had to make change in my head for every order because I had to total out the order to be able to take the next order, so when the first order came to the pickup window, you were 5 to 10 orders deep. Every once in a while, I have to tell a cashier what my change is. What’s weird is I try to add the difference in change so I get a $10 back instead of 9.87. Doing that blows their minds! You would think it would be easier! 😅

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Brilliant_Test_3045@reddit

BTW, my till was never off except one time - exactly $50 was missing. I got fired. Went home, told my dad who knew I was honest to a fault, and he said, “get in the car.” My dad gave them Hell. Turned out, six cashiers had exactly $50 missing from their tills. Asst Manager got arrested. They offered me my job back plus training for management.

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TheSpitalian@reddit

That’s scary. Unless it’s some kind of learning disability. In either case she probably shouldn’t be running a register.

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Kindly-Might-1879@reddit

55F here, about 10 years ago my kid worked at a local, drive thru rinky dink juice/slushie stand. The owner was way too cheap (and quite elderly) to upgrade to electronics so all the teen workers had to take orders by hand, totaling them in ledgers and counting out cash. I’m sure several used their phones at times but I just absolutely loved that a handful of kids were learning the checkout process the old fashioned way!

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TheSpitalian@reddit

Dude probably lost more money than if he would’ve just upgraded. I can easily see some kids saying giving more change back than they should’ve.

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timsfsn@reddit

As a teacher of 23 years, I’m weeping with you.

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Zealousideal_Lab_427@reddit

I recently worked at a mall store with several high school kids. One got flustered when there was a cash transaction, despite the register clearly providing the change amount. She asked me to handle those.

The other was counting the register at close, and didn’t know how to count the nickels. She wasn’t sure of their value. 😳

I’d blow their minds when I counted back the change ex: $12.74 out of $20, .26¢ is 13, one two is 15, and 5 is 20. I previously worked retail in college, and before my mall job, I worked at a small bead shop that had paper invoices to fill out, and I had to make change in my head.

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merrittgene@reddit

I wish staff were just trained to “count”

As in “.39 (penny) .40 (dime) .50 (quarter) .75 (quarter)”

Much easier than trying to do public math.

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systemfrown@reddit

This is actually pretty common. Just patiently help them because clearly their parents didn't.

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CardMechanic@reddit

Should have continued with….

Twelve nickels and a penny……61 pennies……one quarter, a nickel three dimes and a penny…..6 dimes and a penny……

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SuspiciousMeat6696@reddit

20 something Coworker loves to bake. He asked us colleagues what is the hardest thing to bake as he wanted a challenge.

I told him a Souffle. He had no idea what that was.

Then I told him to go watch Julia Childs. He had no idea who that was either.

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Crewstage8387@reddit

How many of you remember a “Baked Alaska”?

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Ihaveamazingdreams@reddit

You can still get Baked Alaska sometimes on cruise ships, which I guess makes sense, because cruises are full of old people.

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imightbeadud@reddit

Tbf I’m 56 and I don’t know what a soufflé is. I’ve heard of it but I don’t know wtf it is

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Watchguyraffle1@reddit

It’s the thing that when it’s baking you have to be really quiet otherwise it will collapse and Jack will be in big trouble.

I really thought that soufflés collapsing would’ve been a much more important part of my adulthood

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DrEnter@reddit

I always wondered why his soufflés were so incredibly fragile. It has to be pretty noisy for that to be an issue. Maybe Janet and Chrissy liked to shoot skeet off the balcony?

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pippi_shortstocking1@reddit

And if it collapsed, it would be straight down to the Regal Beagle to tie one on

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SoUpInYa@reddit

Where the beer's flat but the barmaid isn't

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DrEnter@reddit

It’s usually something like a patisserie cream mixed with egg yolks then folded into whipped egg whites and then baked in a ramekin. Because of all the air incorporated by the whipping and mixing, when made right it puffs up over the sides as it bakes and comes out of the oven light and fluffy.

They are difficult to get right and even when you do they are prone to collapsing in on themselves if not served almost immediately, if the environment is too noisy, or there is too much vibration.

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ebeth_the_mighty@reddit

I keep hearing that they are hard to have come out right.

I’ve only ever made two soufflés: one when I was eleven, and one in my 20s, and they both came out fine.

I’ve never made another, because they are a pain in the ass and the ROI is not good (they are yummy, but don’t justify the effort).

I guess ymmv.

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

Fluffy & airy when it comes out, flat & heavy when it doesn't, which for many, option 2 is the likelier of the 2 :-/

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

Now that's really a shame. Sorry, but Martha Stewart is no Julia Childs, but she's the one the younger gens of today recognize.

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TheGreatRao@reddit

I resolve to live long enough to see bro, lit, crashing out, and reggaeton forgotten by Gen B.

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

No cap on god frfr, bruh. Skibidi toilet Ohio purple monkey dishwasher.

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TheGreatRao@reddit

And what the hell is 6 - 7?

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CharleyDawg@reddit

Don’t forget “am I cooked?”

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worrymon@reddit

I regularly hang out with a group of friends who are all younger than my TV (bought in 1995).

They keep me relatively current with slang and I teach them historical slang.

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jolly_bien-@reddit

TVs aren’t crazy expensive anymore. You should treat yourself, the difference in picture will be awesome dude

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worrymon@reddit

It's not about money. I bought a different TV when I lived in Europe for 5 years because their wiring is all different (and then this one was given back to me when I came back to the states)

I don't care about picture quality of shows/movies enough for it to matter.

I spend extra money on making sure my gaming laptop is the best it can be because that's the screen I focus on.

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OneHoop@reddit

You still use a CRT TV???

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worrymon@reddit

It's still working. I've thought about getting a new TV, but I'm at a point now that I have to see how long it lasts.

Plus, the government bought me a free digital converter box for my antenna when they switched the airwaves over. I haven't paid for cable in 20 years.

I have a spare laptop that I use for streaming shows. (But I just mute the TV in the background and keep it on. It'll never die if I don't use it!)

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Substantial_Lab_8767@reddit

My grandchildren live with me. I have to explain almost everything I say to them. But I do, so the old sayings are not forgotten!

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MhojoRisin@reddit

I recently said “you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting” something. The Millennial I was talking to was tickled to hear it. She said her dad was the only other person she’d heard use that expression. So I guess I talk like a Boomer!

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Ike_In_Rochester@reddit

That’s great you got a laugh! A Millennial at work once heard me say “Kill two birds with one stone” and asked that I refrain from using terms like that. I should have responded “gag me with spoon”.

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Legal-Afternoon8087@reddit

I learned that it has been replaced with “feed two birds with one scone.” So there’s that!

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Ike_In_Rochester@reddit

I think hearing that just aged me five years and awarded me with a free AARP membership. It is truly horrible.

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Legitimate_Finger_76@reddit

Next time they say “Slay” tell them your going to HR because they threatened you lol

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KrofftSurvivor@reddit

Love this!

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

I'm a big Trailer Park Boy's fan, so I use the Ricky version..."Get two birds stoned at once"

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Deaner_dub@reddit

I don’t love the Trailer Park Boys but I love every Ricky-ism I’ve ever read. Checking for a Reddit sub now…

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2ndChanceAtLife@reddit

I just tried explaining to my son what “rode hard & put away wet” means. We’re watching Peaky Blinders & Pol got smashed & smashed a stranger before heading home to find her “forcibly adopted but finally found” son waiting for her. She looked rough. Lol

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JohnnyRelentless@reddit

I mean, it's not that hard to explain. Like you said, it means to look rough. It refers to improperly caring for a horse.

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

Oh, a horse! That makes more sense. I've always thought it was about motorcycles. LOL

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gpradar@reddit

That's pretty funny.

My teenager knows that phrase because she listens to Son Volt, which I honestly think is where I learned it from back in college in 1995.

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prentiss29@reddit

I was talking to a manager of mine (early 30’s) and was describing what a guest looks like. I said he looks like George Michael. Who? George Michael! Like from Wham. What’s that? Are you friggin kidding me???

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SheriffBartholomew@reddit

What a lucky guest!

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AirlineSingle4699@reddit

I had to explain “I’m off like a prom dress” to my younger coworker.

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ShartlesAndJames@reddit

that one should be self explanatory! but.. they do say the younger gens don't drink and don't have sex....

don't drink don't smoke what do you do?

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DominicPalladino@reddit

Bur dies their daddy rock 'n roll?

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ShartlesAndJames@reddit

no, but Momma's got a squeezebox

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Lalamedic@reddit

Goody two shoes

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ShartlesAndJames@reddit

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HalFWit@reddit

And they are AdamAnt about it.

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ShartlesAndJames@reddit

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Civil_Inspector_5697@reddit

Okay, that’s one that’s pretty easy to figure out..kinda defies the ages…

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Stop-Being-Wierd@reddit

I had to explain that one to my coworkers before as well. They thought it was horrible and "rapey". They definitely have a different take on life.

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Brief_Ad7468@reddit

Whaaat? There is no implication of anything ‘rapey’ here! Ugh, I know it’s hard for some younger folks to imagine enthusiastically consensual fornication these days. Damn shame. One of the greatest joys in life.

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Stop-Being-Wierd@reddit

I hear ya, I explained it but at a certain point you just have to walk away. :(

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InsertRadnamehere@reddit

That phrase is so old the internet can’t decide how old it is. So I’d be inclined to go with the oldest possibility which is the Victorian era/old west. Tying a feed bag on a horse.

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SN_Mac_91@reddit

So you’re saying as GenX we have more in common with old west cowboys than the next generation 🤣

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BloodyBarbieBrains@reddit

God, I hope so.

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MostlyHarmless88@reddit

Did you hit her with “three sheets to the wind”? Get that one out of the way at the same time.

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Vast_Needleworker_32@reddit

“Half in the bag” is my favorite!

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Chimayman1@reddit

Love that expression! Great show too.

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miranda62743@reddit

I substitute teach jr high and jokingly did the shame finger gesture and no one knew what it was

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RebRenee@reddit

Or this one! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Cowboy_Buddha@reddit

I first saw the phrase “Tie one on” in Mad Magazine in the 1970s, don’t think I’ve heard it much elsewhere.

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ReturnOfPooky@reddit

A bunch of clods out there these days. Blecch!

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Cowboy_Buddha@reddit

That totally tracks! There was this one bit about a commercial for coffee, comparing two different brands, and one was “Ummmmm, that’s good!” and the other was “Blecch, blecch, blecch!”

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Spickernell@reddit

this cracked me up! definitely rarely saw "clods" outside of mad magazine

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badhoopty@reddit

i had 2 junior level creatives working under me once, a writer and an art director. they f'd off on a project and came to a work in progress with hardly nothing to show and it was due to the client in a few days.

i told them what had to be done and pretty much done overnight, they kinda huffed about it and i said 'eye of the tiger guys, make it happen', and they had zero idea what that meant.

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Even_Antelope_1085@reddit

I’m an old dad. 46 with a 4 and a 5 year old. The kids just got their t-ball hats and none of the other parents got the movie reference

We’re the bulls.

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PanTroglo@reddit

Double miss, because the Durham Bulls are a real team from a very real city...

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lolagoetz_bs@reddit

Durm!!!!

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Ordinary-Sentence6@reddit

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dinkeydonuts@reddit

I’m pretty sure the first time I heard the phrase “tie one on” was on NYPD Blue.

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MountainBrilliant643@reddit

I of course know what it means, but if you ask Google, "it's an idiom from the mid-1900s." LOL! Why does that make it sound so much older?!

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JoeNoble1973@reddit

YES my son asked me about something “in the nineteens”. Not the ‘nineties’…the ‘nineteens’.

I was like dude at the end of Last Crusade

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CityCabCat@reddit

Yikes… I’ve never heard of “ tie one on”

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Nice_Expression7778@reddit

GenX here and I’ve also never heard the phrase. I’m still not sure what it means, but I assume means get drunk? Am I right?

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SusannaG1@reddit

Sloppy drunk, yeah.

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flipside888@reddit

I had forgotten all about “tie one on” but man that brought back memories of two buddies (now dead) that used to say that all the time. Ironically, tying one on is why they are gone.

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melmsz@reddit

No shit Sherlock

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theBananagodX@reddit

I never understood the retort “Dig deeper, Watson.”

Why are we “digging” for the shit? Shouldn’t it be “Squeeze harder, Watson “ or “Try exlax, Watson”?

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Lima3Echo@reddit

Dig deeper Watson

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suffaluffapussycat@reddit

I was born in the sixties and yet I’ve never heard anyone say “The Wife” who wasn’t born in the ‘50s or before.

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Dada2fish@reddit

I was born in the 60’s as well and that term always made me cringe. “The wife”, like she’s an inanimate object or something. And I never once heard a woman say “the husband” unironically.

Glad it’s not a common thing anymore.

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Gelisol@reddit

I often use “my man” or “her man” to refer to husband/boyfriend. Picked it up from a ESL friend and love it.

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OryxTempel@reddit

Reminds me of Ireland

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Gelisol@reddit

They were Swedish.

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Curlypeeps@reddit

Old lady makes me cringe but that's pre Gen X.

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AMTL327@reddit

Thank god for that. Makes my blood boil.

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melmsz@reddit

How.do you feel about co-eds?

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AMTL327@reddit

Also stupid

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melmsz@reddit

I was going with the blood boiling.

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HandleSubstantial169@reddit

I was born in 1979 and I say it all the time. The wife and I dropped some acid last night and spent the evening laughing and swimming in the pool. It was lovely evening.

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ScooterMcTavish@reddit

Love it.

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Away_Ad_5390@reddit

It only gets worse from here.

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Merfette410@reddit

I was “only” born in the 80s, but frequently say “alright it’s time to get outta Dodge” before I leave work. I probably got it from my Dad, but to me it’s a very common saying. My assistant, who’s in her 20s, one day asked me “why do you always say that, what’s it mean?” And it hit me. I’m officially old.

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spacetstacy@reddit

I wake my teenage son up for school with "Time to make the donuts" or " Get up, get out of bed, drag a comb across your head." Of course he thinks I'm crazy.

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diente_de_leon@reddit

Ah now I'll be singing that song all day!

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Randeth@reddit

Yep, started playing in my head before I got to the end of the line. 🙂

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No-Manager7374@reddit

I went to tire dealer and told him I wanted some new slicks for my truck. He had never heard that term.

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Junior_Statement_262@reddit

I just tell them my dawg needs noo shoes.

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Same-Inflation@reddit

I like when Gen Z starts using an old slang and says oh you won’t know this because it’s new. “Throwing hands” was one that comes to mind.

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First-Ad-7960@reddit

Sometimes they change the meaning and then the fun really begins.

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VorpalBunnyTeef@reddit

The fact that “crash out” now means something different really bothered me for a while.

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Junior_Statement_262@reddit

Right. That just means you're gonna go crash - as in sleep or pass out.

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OryxTempel@reddit

I mean it could be fun. On a Friday afternoon telling the younguns that you’re going to crash out for the weekend…

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Junior_Statement_262@reddit

It's not that you're too old. The bartender was too young.

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captainwizeazz@reddit

I am 46 and have no idea what that means.

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Narrow_Economics_466@reddit

Along the lines of getting shit faced, pie eyed, plastered, highly inebriated

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LordZantarXXIII@reddit

Pickled, slizzurd, spun, sloshed, well into one's cups

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doctor-rumack@reddit

He’s three sheets to the wind! He’s drunk as a skunk! Where is my automobile?

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OryxTempel@reddit

Dude where’s my car

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Dirty_Wookie1971@reddit

Automobile? Wreck, Big Wreck!

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ScooterMcTavish@reddit

Smashed, trashed, blitzed, filling the hollow leg, have a skin-full!

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bippityboppityhyeem@reddit

Same! 47 and never heard it before lol

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chopper5150@reddit

I always thought it was just going out for a drink, but never actually heard it outside of tv.

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muffsnake@reddit

Funny how “tie one on” has origins dating back to the 1800s… and it FINALLY becomes anachronistic when Gen-x uses it.

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DaoFerret@reddit

Really shows how fractured new culture is, compared to when we grew up, still consuming movies from the 30s and sharing popular culture with our parents and grandparents.

That’d be like kids now consuming movies from the 80s, which they mostly aren’t.

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88secret@reddit

I was trying to explain that to my 16 year old last night. I knew pop culture from my parents’ and grandparents’ generation because we didn’t have a choice on what to watch.

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wojonixon@reddit

I’m about 15 years older than my average fellow employees; happens all the time.

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88secret@reddit

A GenX colleague made a reference to Mork from Ork yesterday and everyone around us said, “who?!”

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heyyabesties@reddit

Things I've said at work that didn't go over. Usually resulted in a blank stare:

-Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life, son.

-I got a rock

-What's your damage Heather!

-I'm not even supposed to be here today! (Someone actually answered "you're not?")

-Party on Wayne

And almost everyday: Time to make the donuts. They get that one now.

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

Years ago I posted a photo of me and some friends “whooping it up” and captioned it “Party on Wayne!!”

Somebody younger made a comment about who is Wayne?

Good times.

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First-Ad-7960@reddit

My personal favorite is “show us ‘far’”

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Old_but_New@reddit

What’s I got a rock from? I knew the others

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JoshuaEdwardSmith@reddit

Charlie Brown Halloween special

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SeattleSteve62@reddit

Last time I went to a Halloween party I dressed as Charlie Brown. Yellow shirt with zig zags, black shorts, sheet with big black tape dots all over, and a cloth bag of rocks.

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heyyabesties@reddit

Peanuts. All Charlie Brown got while trick or treating was rocks.

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Old_but_New@reddit

Of course! (Smacks head like I coulda had a V8)

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Tasty_Marsupial8057@reddit

The Peanuts Halloween special. Charlie Brown says it when they’re trick or treating.

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Ginger_mutt@reddit

Mine is “Death is but a doorway, time is but a window. I’ll be back”. I guess not much of the younger generations got in to Ghostbusters 2.

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TaterOT@reddit

If someone answered, “you’re not?”. I would have to leave.

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666ForMySorrow@reddit

First time I heard the expression was on Taxi and Jim responded, "I love Chinese food!" or something like that.

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spunquee@reddit

Gotta love ignatowski

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Dirty_Wookie1971@reddit

What does a yellow light mean?

Slow Down!

Whaaaat Does a yellooooooooow liiiiiiight meeeeeaaaaaaaaan????

Sloooow Down!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat does a yelloooooooooooooooooooooow Liiiiiiiiiiiiight. Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaan?

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spunquee@reddit

huh, I must’ve had lessons

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DaoFerret@reddit

Growing up I don’t think I realized how talented all those actors were.

Only now, looking at the amazing careers from the cast, can I appreciate what a unicorn it was.

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AnniemaeHRI@reddit

😂

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VerbalGuinea@reddit

Finish this, “God as my witness…”

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kanrad@reddit

Along with "I got a monkey on my foot!"

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cleveland_leftovers@reddit

I thought turkeys could fly.

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superbad@reddit

I thought turkeys could fly

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Big-Mind-6346@reddit

I have a business with staff made up mostly of 20 something’s. One day something creepy happened and I started singing the music from the twilight zone. Crickets all around me. Made me so sad.

The other one was when I suggested we take a picture with the Charlie’s angels pose. Again, crickets. It sucks to get old.

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DumbScotus@reddit

Ha ha, for the briefest second, when I read “music from the Twilight Zone” my brain started playing the X-Files theme song. Then it re-set and played Twilight Zone. Recency bias 😅

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tinyacorndreams@reddit

Did the exact same thing!

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karma_the_sequel@reddit

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2026-04-10/charlies-angels-50th-anniversary-paleyfest

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drew_almighty21@reddit

I had a psych eval as part of the hiring process for a firefighter job back in the 90's. During one part, the psychologist would say an idiom and ask me to explain what it meant. It's really disturbing to find out that we easily understand what these things mean, but they are also soooo hard to explain.

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KenMediocre@reddit

I am more annoyed with current day slang being applied to things from our era. This fascination with the ‘90s and labeling songs from our era as “bangers” makes me roll my eyes. Or, when they voice their opinion and start or finish their opinion with “This is the right answer” makes me gag. I guess I have reached the “get off of my lawn” chapter of my life and I am weirdly ok with it! 🤣

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KrispyBeaverBoy@reddit

Yep. Also, 'zesty' doesn't mean what you think it means anymore.

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KenMediocre@reddit

Or, raw dogging. That one destroys me.

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diente_de_leon@reddit

Every. Single. Time. They say that! I saw some article about a young person saying he was raw dogging his flight. I was like, the fuck?

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ProductOdd533@reddit

Gag with a spoon?

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Deaner_dub@reddit

“This is the answer. The end”

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AnchorScud@reddit

heard a political analyst say "that's the $64,000 question". no way the hosts knew the reference.

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diente_de_leon@reddit

Oh my God I was talking about that a couple days ago with a fellow Gen X. I have said that and people have absolutely no idea what I mean.

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Civil_Inspector_5697@reddit

I went to my local grocery, bought a bottle of champagne and some snacks on a Friday evening. The clerk, which I’ve chatted with on several occasions before, asked what my plans were for that evening and if I was celebrating something. I said I wasn’t and was just looking forward to an evening in, lounging in my pj’s and watching the boob tube. He, in his 30’s, looked at me like I was nuts.

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orangeiswhoreish@reddit

Ya, I told my kids I was going to veg out.. they were very confused.

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spacetstacy@reddit

Tell them it's "to be still, like brocolli."

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DorktorJones@reddit

"What are you doing tonight?" "Just vegging."

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2014Subaru@reddit

Instead of boob tube, should’ve used, idiot box. 😂

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Tall-Skirt9179@reddit

This made LOL

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

And living your best life as a homebody ✌🏻☺️

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Civil_Inspector_5697@reddit

True dat! 🤣🤣🤣

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wormisprime@reddit

A young coworker didn’t know who Mick Jagger was.

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swazhoo@reddit

My 25 year old daughter thought his last name was McJagger and wanted to know what his first name was.

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lgoodat@reddit

McLovin's older brother

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Crewstage8387@reddit

We used to say give me my McFucking change so I can get the McFuck outta here

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Tinaturtle79@reddit

😂

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80s_baby90s_mademe@reddit

Lmao

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MeaningParticular765@reddit

Offf, that was painful to read. I’m also reminded of my mom telling me it was Lucille Ball NOT Lucy O’Ball!

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pieohmi@reddit

The song Centerfold came on yesterday and I had to explain to my son what that was. He understood it and remembered what it was when I explained (because of movies, he loves 80s and 90s movies). Magazine’s aren’t something that people look at much these days so it wasn’t something in the forefront of his mind.

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Crewstage8387@reddit

Damm I never even considered this

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DorktorJones@reddit

My blood runs cold.

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bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit

At this point, just start making shit up. "I think today we're flyin' a new fishtank, my brer!"

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missmarple94@reddit

If I refer to something as "[Whatever] 2: Electric Boogaloo." Crickets.

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_ItsTheLittleThings_@reddit

My 23 yo does this often. She’s never even seen the movie, and it’s not something she picked up from me, but it cracks me up every time.

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jason4747@reddit

Automatic update for 2 Electric Boogaloo reference

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unbroken_cycle@reddit

I had to stop telling clients that I was going to give them the Reader’s Digest version of documents…

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Crewstage8387@reddit

I had a boss who used to tell me that every time I told him something

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ProductOdd533@reddit

Was in a meeting recently and someone said that. Fortunately all of us got it, but I recognized how anachronistic it sounded.

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bemenaker@reddit

Does RD even still exists. This one has definitely lost its relevancy.

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DaoFerret@reddit

As of COVID they’ve moved to on-line only.

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JessieColt@reddit

Or Cliff Notes.

They probably would have asked who Cliff was!

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funnyctgirl@reddit

Apparently it's called Spark notes now.

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Smoking0311@reddit

Not so much slang but movie quotes 😔

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solemn_penguin@reddit

I once made a joke at work about an automatic door not working properly. I said the flux capacitor was out of alignment. The person I said this to (early 30s) was confused about what a flux capacitor had to do with an automatic door. I think I felt my knees give out it that moment.

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ClownShoeNinja@reddit

Automatic doors that open slowly are a problem that I often run into.

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Old_but_New@reddit

That surprises me. Have most people seen Back to the Future? Maybe only kids who grew up w Gen X parents.

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solemn_penguin@reddit

You'd think that even if you haven't you'd pick up some idea of what it was through cultural osmosis.

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littlebigmama810@reddit

It's Miller Time! and Put a little weekend in your week. Obviously the beer ads worked.

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DorktorJones@reddit

The bar I worked at severed Tots, my buddy used to call it 'the beer of champagnes'.

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FalseEvidence8701@reddit

I was walking with a younger friend back to my place, and he asked what I was gonna do next that night. Joking around I said, The same thing we do every night Pinky, Try to take over the world. He just goes Huh? Up to that point I was half asleep, and it jerked me back to full awake going we have got to fix this.

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murphybt@reddit

You said it in his voice, right?

The Pinky response I loved best was something like "Sure Brain, but where will we find rubber pants at this time of night?" 😂

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WarPotential7349@reddit

But burlap chafes me so.

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doctor-rumack@reddit

That’s a great one, but I think a lot of people even our age wouldn’t have gotten a Pinky and the Brain reference.

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Impossible-Company78@reddit

Eh? Am I too old for this reference?

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cwcharlton@reddit

My boss (58) will randomly throw an 80s movie line into conversation in meetings, then thank me (56) when I'm the only one who chuckles or snickers.

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missblissful70@reddit

For some reason the only line I know from “Risky Business” is “I don’t think so, Joel.” And my son changed his name to Joel, so I get to say it fairly often.

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DorktorJones@reddit

My buddies son is named Dillion. I asked if every time he sees him does he give him the bro shake and call him at son of a bitch? Because I would.

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Itchy_Undertow-1@reddit

Saying “spaghetti Wednesday” and crooning “Hey Aaaaaaaaanthonyyyyy!!!”

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stefanica@reddit

But I feel like chicken tonight!

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SBG214@reddit

I just chalk that up to: Tell me you’re not well read without telling me you’re not well read. 😊 I don’t feel old that way.

Except there will be some who won’t know about chalking up.

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kittybigs@reddit

They’ll “chock” it up.

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Disastrous-Taste3322@reddit

There used to be an old "watering hole" where I'm from named "Tye one on".

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Kodiak01@reddit

You used to be able to get a drink in Baltimore at The Admiral Fell Inn. (It's now reopened as "The William Fell")

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Bl8kStrr@reddit

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Cheers to you!!!

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SBInCB@reddit

Yeah. I’m over being mad at Gen Z for being kids…like we were…and having their own culture that doesn’t include older folks….like we had.

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LargeMarge-sentme@reddit

This is accurate. Millennials choose their own path. They could have been cooler if they wanted. Instead they embraced mustached hipster culture which was decidedly anti-cool.

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SageObserver@reddit

Gen X is basically tasked with showing younger generations how to be cool.

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LargeMarge-sentme@reddit

I feel like this every day at work. Although to be fair most of the people I work with have a PhD in a scientific discipline so it’s not exactly an accurate representation of the population.

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72vintage@reddit

Last summer I was working with a group of 8 guys - 5 Gen X, 2 older Millennials, and one 22 year old. That little piece of Gen Z shit was utterly worthless. We started quoting Full Metal Jacket at him whenever he would fuck up and he was confused as hell...

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holidayoffools@reddit

What is your major malfunction, Pyle??!!

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doctor-rumack@reddit

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peteandpenny@reddit

Mine is more of a cultural reference. If I start spouting of some facts and trivia, I’ll joke that I’m “pulling a Cliff Clavin”. That has earned me many a blank stare from Gen Z and younger millennials.

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judgiestmcjudgerton@reddit

Aww good old Cliff

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WarPotential7349@reddit

I said something about "If I had my druthers," and one of my former coworkers asked me if I'd looked for a new on on Amazon.

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MhojoRisin@reddit

Zounds!

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bendingoutward@reddit

Back before Gadzooks went under, I desperately wanted to open a competitor across the way in the mall, Egads.

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WarPotential7349@reddit

And the down-tempo, generic "Oh My" down the hall. LOL

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Zinjifrah@reddit

I hear Gadzooks and all I can think of is the bear from the The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town.

https://youtu.be/Q5X4SNFt01M?si=0ksF81wI64Q9gAzz

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PhiloLibrarian@reddit

Gadzooks I’m hornswaggled!

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LastCookie3448@reddit

My undergrads don’t know SCHLEP. I almost cried.

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LargeMarge-sentme@reddit

We were taking about a product change which was just a rebrand of an existing product and I said something along the lines of “Oh that’s like Coca Cola Classic” and everyone looked at me like I was an idiot. I realized none of my younger colleagues got it. I felt retribution weeks later when our CEO (who is my age) made the same reference to the same change (which no one got then either, but at least they all knew we both knew it meant something).

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n00b71@reddit

I had to explain what “cream always rises to the top” meant to a couple of twenty-somethings not too long ago.

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gcpuddytat@reddit

I said to someone "It's on like Donkey Kong" and their response was "Huh?"

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chapaj@reddit

That phrase was in the first Mario movie from a couple of years ago.

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Baking_Dude@reddit

I asked a bartender if they could turn up the volume of the baseball game to 11. He said “that’ll turn it down - did you mean 50?”

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lunicorn@reddit

I asked my anesthesiologist if she could turn it up to 11 because I was really hurting and she had no idea what I was talking about.

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m149@reddit

Spinal Tap is very confused right now.

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LeoPelletier@reddit

50 is 39 louder, innit?

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Impossible-Company78@reddit

Too busy looking for another drummer.

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m149@reddit

Well, they would be looking for another drummer if they weren't so heavily sedated.

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ImCaffeinated_Chris@reddit

I once said to a coworker from India "We eat our own dog food." Absolute look on his face of confusion 🤣

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canfullofworms@reddit

I've never heard that either!

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missblissful70@reddit

Me either! What does it mean?

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UnderaZiaSun@reddit

It’s used in the tech world to mean “use our own products” so that employees understand the product and see what works and what doesn’t and better understand what the customers experience. And eventually someone in marketing will try to rephrase it as “drinking our own champagne”, implying that the products are like fine champagne rather than dog food, but these are the same people who think their shit doesn’t stink. The point of it is that there are always problems and you want employees to find them before customers, or at least understand them.

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GoWestGirl@reddit

“It’s a Conundrum.”

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thorpcreek@reddit

Wrapped in an enigma...

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missmarimck@reddit

I've noticed that there's an entire idiomatic sub-genre missing from younger folks that I attribute to them not having seen some of the older 40s pre-movie shorts and cartoons that we saw on tv as kids. Tom & Jerry, the Little Rascals, the Three Stooges, etc.

I was telling my kids about the joke of the boss asking for a volunteer and every one stepping back except one person, and they were like, 'why?' That type of thing was just known for our age group...

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zephyrthewonderdog@reddit

Just reminded me when I was doing training in my brand new uniform. Staff told me I had a rip under my armpit, I lifted my arm to look.

‘Oh good we have a volunteer, step forward that man’.

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jaimonee@reddit

Haha! Great example.

Id take it one step further (see what I did there), and say that the last 20 years have removed any "water cooler talk" when it comes to media. With unlimited choice everyone branches and dives into their niche. No more common choices, no more "everything is coming up millhouse" or "is he sponge worthy" or "id buy that for a dollar!"

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denzien@reddit

The first time I heard "tie one on" was in Rick and Morty. I never bothered to look it up though.

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dstarpro@reddit

*overdo

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VonGrippyGreen@reddit

I told a young co-worker some story about my high school job and "reading the paper" in the break room. No idea.

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Baking_Dude@reddit

I’m in an improv troupe with younglings (20-30s). They’d never heard of ‘a fish called Wanda’ or ‘fast times at ridgemont high’…I even had to explain ‘sex and the city’ to them when it was a suggestion from the audience - I told them “talk about sex and relationships and how awful your partners are”. They had no clue. (They now, however, understand my IDGAF attitude on stage more)…

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NerdfestZyx@reddit

Yesterday, I had to explain the song “Insane in the Membrane” to a kid 19 years old

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

but the words are right there! (🎵🎶... Insane in the brain!🎵🎶) 😩

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DaoFerret@reddit

“ ‘Insane in the meme brain’? I don’t get it?”

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SisyphusCoffeeBreak@reddit

my back hurts

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KrofftSurvivor@reddit

Realizing the kids today have no reference point for some of those lyrics makes me feel old as hell...

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KaterinaKiaha@reddit

Akasha haven't heard that one in 40 or 50 years 🤓

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Patient_Doctor4480@reddit

I now say, "I sound like a broken vinyl." so the kids will get the joke.

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CoolFirefighter930@reddit

30s . Tie and strap are pretty close. Oh well

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PDM_1969@reddit

At work all the time I'd reference a TV show or a song and would get the blank stares

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cwcharlton@reddit

Just chiming in because my (56F) first date with hubby (53M) was at a Thai restaurant called Thai One On. We definitely "get it."

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SunnyPsyOp23@reddit

Likewise, you wouldn't know what Gen Z meant when they said they were "crossfaded." American English changes with every generation. It's how we piss off our parents.

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FloppyFerrett1@reddit

This is a new one to this genx-er!

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Buckeyebornandbred@reddit

Type shit type shit!

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jonnydemonic420@reddit

Cross faded has been around since the 90s rappers! Gen Z had nothing to do with that. We were getting cross faded in high school lol.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Most of GenZ's AAVE slang I remember hearing back in the 90s. It's just "new to them."

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so2017@reddit

Yeah. Gen Z says “Ohio” and “Skibbidy” and the such.

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idio242@reddit

Crossfaded, candy flipping, nothing new under the sun.

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jonnydemonic420@reddit

Candy flip was a good time in the day…

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RitaRaccoon@reddit

I’m 1968 and know exactly what crossfaded means!

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DetroitsGoingToWin@reddit

She must not be a very good bartender

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Cat-servant-918@reddit

Did you say you couldn't get three sheets to the wind? 😂

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MyNewPhilosophy@reddit

At trivia the other day the clue was “dressed in drag with his bosom buddy” for a celebrity and none of my friends knew that was Tom Hanks

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InebriousBarman@reddit

Peter Scolari

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Top-Nose2659@reddit

"We're in Schafer City"

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KrofftSurvivor@reddit

Pop, pop, sittin' pretty, all together in Schaefer city!

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JonnyredsFalcons@reddit

Never heard this saying, born in 72. Maybe it's because i'm in the UK, we'd say this usually:

Going to get wankered Proper pissed up Shit faced

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Happy_Machine_1@reddit

UK slang and American slang has always been VASTLY different.

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

“Shitfaced” was the admin passwords at one of my first IT jobs.

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its_a_multipass@reddit

I'd like to get shit faced in your land one day

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JonnyredsFalcons@reddit

Come on over, we're pretty friendly!

Can start off in Spoons with a full English and a few pints, line the belly, get proper on it and finish off with a ruby.

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chicadeaqua@reddit

I want in on this

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JonnyredsFalcons@reddit

Everyone's welcome!

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CapstickWentHome@reddit

Google's describing it as an older North American idiom, so that tracks. Despite being in the US for over 20 years now, this is the first time I've heard it.

I typically use "trolleyed" for equally blank stares.

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tlcnet@reddit

Love the UK expressions, and we used Shit faced in highschool in the 80’s here in Texas. I never imagined it was a world wide phrase

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Ike_In_Rochester@reddit

Yeah. Yankee here. To be fair, I know all those terms from Sean of the Dead.

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Public-Life6632@reddit

All the time! My millennial colleague at work laughs bemusedly at my "old" expressions she's never heard before.

Bitch.

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vwaldoguy@reddit

The phrase actually dates back to the 30s to 50s. I’m surprised the bar manager wouldn’t know of it.