The barbary corsairs are less of a factor than i was led to believe in school
Quicksand.
Bermuda Triangle.I used to think these would have a greater impact on my adult life.
Ditto.
I'm probably around the same age as the guy who wrote that.
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The term is newer than I thought. It was created in 1964 and it first appeared in print in this magazine.
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It took Vincent H. Gaddis to coin the catch-all phrase that would enter popular culture; his article in the February 1964 issue of “Argosy” [later incorporated into his book "Invisible Horizons"] was titled “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.”
both those things used to be my childhood obsessions.
then i made quicksand in my yard with a hose and nothing sank in it but it was cool how it instantly hardened when the hose turned off. little green army men survived.
and i was dragged on my one and only cruise straight through the triangle and most that happened as a cool storm where i got to sit in the huge porthole as it repeatedly was lashed with waves. i survived.
I envy you. I have no stories to share of violent battles and treacherous sea voyages. But I did watch a ton of tv and think about quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle with wonder. If I remember correctly in the 70s I watched Spock (I called the actor that too) narrate something about the Bermuda Triangle.
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I watched a few seconds here or there - In Search of the Bermuda Triangle ... With Leonard Nimoy! (1976). - YouTube
Unfortunately it gave me a sort of negative nostalgia value. Now that I'm an adult it's clear In Search of... episodes are surely nearly all are piles of shit and pseudo science. Google says there are ~145 episodes. I really wish Nimoy had narrated something else. Something of actual value about science or technology or history anything else that's real. Oh, well.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Slurs aside,
- blazed (meaning stoned, as in "420 blaze it")
- pwn
- lamer
- lamesauce
- g2g
- rofl (I find it really interesting that lol and lmao stood the test of time but rofl fell into obscurity...too over-the-top, maybe?)
- brah (as in bro)
- rekt
- noice (as in nice)
- gangsta (as in "that's so gangsta")
- ghetto (specifically when meaning scuffed or jury-rigged)
- ratchet
- (a specific term equivalent to cross-faded that I cannot for the life of me remember)
- Macarena
- (A)IM ((AOL) instant message)
- Gchat
- Pogs (not as in PogChamp but as in these guys)
- Toonami
- Psych!/sike!
- Jinx (personal jinx ten! Nice try)
and probably a bunch more dated slang which I've memory-holed
slurs aside
Ugh. It can’t be overstated just how pervasive the f-word slur was when I grew up.
lol and lmao are quicker to type for more people than rofl on qwerty keyboard. That's always been my guess. rofl is a little awkward to type
It used to be a composite too, it was often typed out fully as roflmao. That's what I think actually became lmao over time
Me and my partner still use "noice" all the time, we're keeping the flame alive. Whether anyone wants us to or not
I feel like brah has increased if anything. Or maybe Im combining it with bruh.
25% of my verbal communication is various forms of brah/bruh/bruv
Yeah, I'm specifically excluding brah. I still hear (and use) both bro and bruh, but the frat-bro-coded brah seems to have fallen to the wayside. Maybe actual frat bros still use it...not really my scene.
Toonami
Remains my guiding light for all of my creative endeavors. My primary ambition is to make something that would make it on Toonami. Something my younger self would dig. I just want TOM to do some ice cold voice-over promo on my work. That's what I want my c/gamedev projects to be. Toonami worthy.
jury-rigged
Jerry-rigged actually, and apparently this phrase predates the term "Jerry" used for Germans by a century so no relation
Depends, is ghetto meaning poorly built or shoddy (jerry rigged)? Or is it meaning effectively, even stylishly, Improvised from on hand materials (jury rigged)
Ive seen both definitions used.
lmao i didn't realize both were phrases but in retrospect it's obvious. english is weird
Trickle down economics
They don’t have the guts to say it out loud anymore
Everybody used to use the word "clicks" to mean 'kilometers' but I don't think I've heard it in years
Who I am and what I'll be, comes from inside me
Who I am comes from my inside out, my character matters
Who I am comes from my inside out, my character counts
Those first were ones I was gonna mention. Those last two are I think a more local dialect…
Lateral circuit was my first buzzword. No clue what it was ever supposed to mean.
tubular
bodacious
ring-a-ding-dinging (phone call)
far out
phat
These are just the levels from Super Mario World's special zone
most of the vocabulary of multicultural london dialect
haven't spoken to anyone who speaks mld in like 8 years
