Post words from your youth you never hear anymore.

[a_random_joel]

My word is "mel"

Which is a synonym for geek or nerd. I am not sure if this was just an 80's thing, or even just a localized word in the NW Chicago suburbs.

Anyone else ever hear that word used?

Name some more...

[flamingyouth]

1. Rad

Big in the '80s

[Catch22Dem]

4. Rad's still out there

In certain circles, believe it or not.

[flamingyouth]

5. Wow

I only hear it used in an ironic sense. Perhaps I should change my circles.:D

[a_random_joel]

34. Rad, short for radical...

Yes I remember.

[Skittles]

2. "keen"

from the 60's

[Catch22Dem]

3. Tubular

Vally thing...here and gone.

[flamingyouth]

8. Now, that one I hear

We use it among my friends. Again, kind of ironically and as a joke. And "gnarly." :D

[Catch22Dem]

30. Gnarly is so rad! n/t

[RetroLounge]

6. Fender Skirt

RL

[bo44]

40. curb feelers to protect those fender skirts.

Lead Sled, Kustoms and Rat Fink

[parasim]

7. Keen

Haven't heard that one since the 60's.

[AlCzervik]

9. Pissa

or in my case...wicked pissa. I dont live in masschusetts anymore, maybe that why i never hear it, well except from me.

[daisygirl]

41. I grew up near Boston

and I used to hear that one all the time. Now that I've moved to Ohio, I only hear it from my sister, though...

[johnnie]

10. Book

As in split or move in a hurry. "Let's book". " I was booking down the street as fast as I could". "The keg ran out so we all booked".

[flamingyouth]

11. LOL - yeah, I remember that one

And it was indeed usually used in the context of "the keg ran out so we all booked." :D

[AlCzervik]

12. another new england fave

bookit! Theres a copcahhh coming!

[SoCalDem]

13. "neat-o"

or "blast"...as in " we had a blast"..

[underpants]

14. Impeachment

at least they STOPPED saying it recently :grr:

[XNASA]

15. Let's blow this pop stand.

"Let's leave."

Also.......Flip me some cake.

"Give me some money."

[NightTrain]

16. Unisex

[Estel]

17. Everything was

bitchin'

[Blue-Jay]

18. Cool Beans

[Ready4Change]

25. Where does "cool beans" come from?

A friend of mine was wondering about the origin of that phrase. I haven't been able to find anything definitive.

[Ready4Change]

27. "Bad" meaning really good or cool.

Oops, meant to attach this to the original message.

[AlCzervik]

19. stop bogarting that joint.

[SiouxJ]

20. Surfer-bangs

as in a 70's hairstyle popular with both guys and gals. You had to have a pooka shell necklace to go with it. I've noticed pookas are back in style, though they seem much bigger than when I was a kid.

[a_random_joel]

35. Popular with Cali skaters in the early & mid 80s as well.

Unless I am thinking about a similar haircut with long bangs.

[Texasgal]

21. LOL!

Mine was "Right On!"

[Speck Tater]

22. Squaresville daddyo

[SiouxJ]

23. Boss

as in, "this is a boss thread man."

[Canuckistanian]

24. Nifty

Slang, meaning a student in grade 9. c.f. "Nifty Niner"

[On the Road]

26. "Mother"

used in very special sense of the 60s and 70s.

[Snow]

28. "catty" meaning the same as "cool"

we started using both at about the same time, early 60's in high school in Indianapolis.

My great-grandmother liked to "23-skidoo" out of somewhere. She was quite a woman - married at 17, but jailed three times for marching for the vote. Progressives forever!

[asianjoanne]

29. hahaha!

I don't hear kids these days actually coming out and saying on television (like when I was really young):

"I love our President!"

lmao!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. So like I went to this totally "boss" party

my youth is older than yours :D

[BiggJawn]

32. "Wanna Fuck?"

And the other part of that, later on:
"What'd you say your name was again?"

[kmla]

33. Well this thread would be really groovy....

... if it would have included the saying "far out".

But it doesn't.

[a_random_joel]

36. Check out pseudodictionay.com

Cool site. It pointed out that my word, mel, is actually short for melvin... which I had forgotten. THus the word was more widepread than I originally thought.

[MisterP]

37. "hot-doggin'," "right on," "wagaqaanqh,"

and "dies mies jeschet boene doesef douvema enittemaus"

[lpbk2713]

38. Heavy

or cherry
or primo

[Lydia Leftcoast]

39. From the 1960s in Minnesota

"Neat" or "sharp" as terms of approval

"Society"--the kids who were the aristocracy of the school, set the fashions, and were mean to the other kids. They even referred to themselves as "society," as in "I've invited all the society kids to my birthday party."

"Hood"--a working class kid who broke all the rules and affected a defiant attitude.

"Playing car-car"--having sex in a car

"Hold me back."--said when one sighted an attractive member of the opposite sex.

"Church key."--bottle opener

"Simple"--a term of disapproval, usually meaning unfashionable or awkward. "I look so simple in this dress."

"Swear to God?" or "Swear to God!"--"Really?" or "Really!"

"No lie"-- (see "Swear to God")

"Chugging"--drinking booze at one gulp.

"Zero"--an adjective meaning "completely lacking." "Have you ever seen him in swim trunks? He has a zero bod!"

"Plowed"--drunk

"Ratting" and "teasing"--what girls did to their hair during the early 1960s to make it appear fuller. I believe the technical term is "backcombing."

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

42. Harsh

as in Stop it man, you are harshing my mellow.

[eyesroll]

43. Where'd you go to school, Joel?

I also grew up in the northwest suburbs (Arlington Heights -- Greenbrier Elementary, 1979 - 1986) and used the word "mel" -- sometimes "melvin" -- in that same context.

I haven't heard it since -- even a year later, when I moved to Buffalo Grove, it disappeared from my vocabulary. Weird.