Wednesday, August 3, 2011

What are the meanings of these 1970's words?

I lived in the 70s. From what I remember, hangin' means sitting around doing nothing or having a good time with your friends. hassle is something difficult and undesirable to do or get accomplished. Idiot-stick I do not remember, but perhaps they mean joy-stick, which is the control for the first videogames that the world knew. Kook is someone who is crazy or expresses crazy ideas, as opposed to a freak, which is just your standard hippie. Melvin and Moby I have no clue about. (Those are from the 1870s whaling trade?). Punk in the 70s was different than the punk in the 50s-early60s. Punk in the 70s means a peculiar kind of hippie that had hair spray-painted in multiple colors and sticking out everywhere, along with tatoos and maybe a body piercing as well. Punk Rock was the music they liked. Razz means to tease, and i think that is a hold-over from the 50s and 60s. Stoked means replete with plentiful drugs, especially MJ, Stoned means spaced out on drugs, usually MJ but sometimes other drugs as well. Threads are clothing, What-say I guess is self explanitory, wiped out means ultrastoned and/or emotionally overcome with good feelings, usually drug induced. I hope this helps.

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