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Originally Posted by JusticePete
Back at you. 
Like FUBAR and SNAFU and a laundry list of politically incorrect racial and ethnic terms that back then were not offensive. My Dad would ask if we wanted to go eat at the DAGO's joint. That is now an ethnic slur. Where I grew up we had Dagos, Pollacks, Serbs, more Serbs. I would tell my mother I was going to the Pollocks house for dinner. He would do the same when he came to mine. I'm going to the Serbs to play. If you were mad you called the other guy the same thing you called him when you weren't. It was all in the tone of voice and context.
My mother had a list of politically incorrect rhymes and slang terms most of which I'll not repeat on the forum. This one is priceless.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Take my Advice
Pull down your pants
And slide on the ice
It is a Greatest Generation comment on life that was made famous to the Boomer Generation on MASH. Translation -- don't take life so seriously. |
Speaking of sayings.... I heard this one recently.... kinda like it.
"Don't let the door hitchya where the good Lord splitya".....