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hipster speak

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Peel your ears (1) and get this, nickel rats (2). Some nighthawk (3)has been using his noggin (4) so much that rather than hittin’ the hop(5) they’ve compiled a collection of the best US slang from the 1920s to the 1960s. So grab a flop (6), chill your chat (7) and learn how to talk like a real hipster. Or something.

BARBECUE

A hot-looking lady.

CHICAGO OVERCOAT

Coffin.

CHICAGO LIGHTNING

Gunfire.

DEAD SOLDIERS

Empty beer bottles.

DIME DROPPER

An informer (someone who drops a dime in payphone to call the cops).

FACE LIKE A RUSSIAN FLAG

Embarrassed, ie red.

FREE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

Out of work, unemployed.

HAEMOPHILIA OF THE LARYNX

A blabbermouth.

HARLEM SUNSET

Knife wounds.

HAVE ONE ON THE CITY

Drink some water.

KNOW YOUR GROCERIES

Be hip, aware, alert to the situation.

OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE

Vintage liquor or wine.

PREPARING BAIT

Putting on makeup.

ROUNDHEELS

Party girl (deriving from a supposed natural ability to regularly fall over backwards).

SINHOUND

A priest.

SNIFFING ARIZONA PERFUME

Going to the gas chamber.

STRAIGHT FROM THE FRIDGE

Cool. Obviously.

TAKEN OFF THE PAYROLL

Killed/assassinated.

THAT VIBRATES ME

I’m impressed, I really like it.

VOMIT ON THE TABLE

Speak up.

YOUR ROOF IS LEAKING

You’re a bit crazy.

Intro footnotes…

1 Listen up 2 You cheap crooks 3 Late-night person

4 Brain 5 Doing drugs 6 Have a sit down 7 Shut up

The third edition of Straight From The Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné is out now (No Exit Press)

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a new kind of blackface

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“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”- John Wayne

Mark of stupidity: Burglary suspects drew masks and beards on their faces using permanent marker pen

There was little to disguise what these two had been up to moments before police pulled them over.

Would-be burglars Matthew McNelly and Joey Miller’s masterplan had one tiny flaw –their ‘disguises’ comprised of masks drawn on their faces with permanent marker pen.

American police stopped their car after a witness reported two men ‘with painted faces’ were trying to break into a flat in Carroll, Iowa.

article-1223724-06FC467F000005DC-92_306x462article-1223724-06FC4755000005DC-357_306x462Marked men: Matthew McNelly, 23, and Joey Miller, 20, were arrested after trying to break into an apartment in Carroll, Iowa. Police found they had drawn masks and beards on their faces in permanent marker pen

The caller added that the pair were wearing dark, hooded tops and had driven off in a big white car.

Police soon spotted a 1994 Buick Roadmaster matching the description and stopped it at gunpoint.

Inside they found the two men, both of whom had what appeared to be masks, beards or moustaches scrawled on to their faces.

McNelly, 23, and Miller, 20, were both charged with attempted second-degree burglary and released on bail.

McNelly was also charged with drunk driving.

The pair are due in court next month. Hopefully the disguises will have washed off by then.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1223724/Burglars-Matthew-Allan-McNelly-Joey-Lee-Miller-drew-masks-beards-faces-using-permanent-marker-pen.html#ixzz0X1uaycNV

 

speaking of candle on the water

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I never should have brought that up because now I cannot stop thinking about Pete’s Dragon.  After Annie, this was my favorite movie as a child.  I think I’ve tried to block it out.  I loved it so much!  I was terrified of Shelley Winters.  This movie is all I know of the work of Mickey Rooney.  It’s just so darn good.  I need to rent it asap.

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My record looked like the above.  I remember playing it over and over on my grandparent’s record player that was one of those huge cabinet type things with a record player in it.  I would try to act the whole thing out by myself in the living room.  I probably only did that once, but the memory is so very vivid that it seems like I did it every day or something.

A few fun facts from the movie:
– It was the first Disney film to be released on VHS
– The song “Candle on the Water” received an academy award nomination
– The movie was actually filmed in California and the crew had to get special permission from the Coast Guard to use the lighthouse so it wouldn’t confuse passing ships.
– There’s an episode of Family Guy with a parody of the movie (involving Ben Stiller)

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One last thing…

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Women working on Pete’s Dragon in Walt Disney’s Ink and Paint Department which was off limits to male artists.