February 11, 2026 ⢠21 mins
Glossary of early twentieth century United States.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Meme stops. How long have you been using that word regularly?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
When did it this?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
At least fifteen ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Ten to fifteen years? Right? When was it last used
so regularly?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Meme?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It predates the internet fifty years ago? Is it British?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The I don't know. I'm in America?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The uh?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So, do you do you do you believe this?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I was reading this thing yesterday. Do you do you
believe this? Kids today and they don't. They don't give
me an age on kids. Kids today are starting to
sound more and more like their grandparents. And they talk
about a resurgent of old time words getting used regularly again.
(01:02):
And one of the ones that they talk about is
meme and they go, people don't realize meme is fifty
years old. No idea like that word was being used
regularly fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What did it describe back then?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I think maybe it's British. The I have no idea.
I have no idea, that's her.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Meme was coined in seventy six by British evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins. It was defined as a unit of cultural
transmission or imitation. It is derived from the Greek word mimema,
which means that which is imitated.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
There you go fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Obviously I was right, that is British. I didn't know
it went back to the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But they talk about how they talk about how words
that and they said a couple of things. So either
somebody hears it and it catches on, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Or it becomes an earworm.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You hear it, it becomes an earworm, and then it's
just top of mind. But for some reason it takes off.
So another word that they point.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Out, brain rot.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's old.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Henry David Thureau coined the term brain rot. Didn't know
that in the nineteenth century. Why But here's the part
that frustrated me. They don't They don't talk about number one,
what did it when when Henry David Thereau, who is
a very very famous old they don't talk about famous
(02:42):
the like what was he what what context was he
using it in?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Like I don't think it was from scrolling.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I'm trying to see here for throw brain rot describes
what happens to our minds and spirits and we suppress
our innate instincts for curingosity and wonder.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now it's just mindlessly doomed, which doomscrolling, I bet is
very old.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, we just don't know if meme and brainrod, I
wouldn't now doubt it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Calling someone a goon is no longer nineteen twenties habit.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's common squad. You see goon all over the place. Yes,
he's a goon acting like a goon. Yeah, No, you're righton.
That's been around since eve.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The But they say like that was a big thing,
like in the nineteen twenties, because that that was like
a bad guy, a bank robber, a mafioso, was a goon.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Another good one, she sh sheesh.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah you see that online.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, you see it everywhere, mostly online. You're right, that
goes like that. Your grandparents' grandparents use.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That because I feel like if I said she, you
would make fun of me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Absolutely, but you do see it, you do see it
written out, Yes, absolutely. Older slang is basically nothing more
than an earworm.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You just need to hear it once for it to
be top of mind.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But if you hear it over and over, it's going
to get It's going to stick. Somewhere in your brain
and could pop up unexpectedly at any time.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
True, But then what which I get?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Like like, for example, like yap is another one?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Where like way back in the day, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Rosie the Riveter, when somebody was saying, shut your yap
and then it went away forever, But now now yap
is normal.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wasn't Kristen skeating all over the place the other day?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
She was singing?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's an old term.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Skeet's an old term, yeah, like twenty years or older.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Like, no, doesn't skeep mean to to leave to go skidaddle?
Well that's another one, yo. I bet if you look
up skate the definition will be scattle.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why are you writing down?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Because I thought with a J or a G is g.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's definitely a j elliott.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh isn't that with ski?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well maybe in your context.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But you just said it was to skidaddle? Like, oh,
skidattle out of here? Diane?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
What did what does skeet mean to you? You know?
Okay what the song says?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, exactly, Oh skate skate skates skate skate.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That just means skidadda.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here we have a glossary of early twentieth century slang
means to scatter, depart or skidaddle.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh not in the song? Can I go to line one? Hi,
Elliott the morning morning Elliott Dan, Hey, what's up An?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I didn't know my grandparents had the riz before any
of them.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
By the way, is sus what what? What list? Were
you just on?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The glossary of early twentieth century slang.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Is sus on there? But can't you just see an
old gum shoe? O.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
God, gum shoe. No.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Apparently they used hanky for suspicious hanky.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, oh that's what Jake Joe Hansen keeps.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
In his pocket, hanky hanky.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now, I will say I'm scrolling quickly. A lot of
these are racist the well, it's the nineteen twenties ant sexist.
But there's quite a few, and we should play. I
should give you some and see if you can guess
what they are.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Wait, guess the old word?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, no, guess what it means? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh, but you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, I won't do one that's obvious, don't.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, But I mean that if what if?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What if? No word has changed more over time?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And I'm including brain rot with Henry David Thureau no
word has changed in the last fifty years, more than
ski or one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I could I'm going through. I could get you a
couple here to do. This is fun.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's a lot on here. I'm not gonna lie. I'm
only in the bees the bee's knees. Oh, that's an
old saying.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I sink, Kristen say that. Yes, Kristin, you might be
good at this.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, this might be her game.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
This could be you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You want to come in, Yeah, bring your cans? Okay,
let me get a couple more water cans?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Are cans on there? What did cans mean in nineteen twenty?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oops?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No, Diane, No, they didn't. Was kan slang for anything.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
In nineteen Looking up? I'm looking it up.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Like when the like when he was eavesdropping, did the
gum shoe put his cans on?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Can? Is on?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Here? Is it really what it means in nineteen twenty?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
A prison or a holding cell at a police station,
or a run the can a rundown automobile?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Geloppy? No?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That can?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh is JELOPI races?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I gotta be careful here, Hey Elliott, how did you
how'd you finally lose your license?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I uttered jeloppy.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Now that is on here and it just says dumpy
old carve that ski Oh, I know what songs celebrate.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's all that's in my head right now.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, well, okay, I got I got a couple. I'll
give you the term. Well, it's not like this is
an established game.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'll just give you the term and the first person
to give me the proper definition that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Can we just guess? Can we just guess? Yeah? But
who's right?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
What if someone comes with a very similar answer after
another person, Like somebody spelled.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It with a G and somebody spelled it with a J.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, I'm ready, I'll just I'll start in the a's
right here. I like this one. Ready.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wait, this is.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Early twenty I'm so nervous, early twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Why are you writing that down?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Twentieth century? I liked, I gotta see the word.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You're going to write down the word? I will have
screamed the answer five times?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What's the word?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Well, I haven't given it yet, Diana, you're ready, yep,
Jaloppe acknowledge the corn.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
See you soon, So you're out right?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, that's Joe acknowledge the corn, oh truth, and I
can tell you how I got there.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Truth.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You're saying the word, so that's what that means. You're
saying truth is the meaning of acknowledge.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
The corn is truth.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Is anyone else got to guess? I don't even know
what to say because.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You're not thinking. I can tell you exactly how I
got there.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Every story has a kernel of truth. Kernel corn comes
from a kernel.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I would say it has something to do with looking
in the field. And if the corn is ready to
be picked, then can I just tell you what it is? It?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Smitt responsibility for? So I do think that Elliott.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Was kind of there? You were warm? Yeah, yeah, I
don't know if you would get a point.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
For I don't need a point. Well I do because
I'm not winning it.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Here's another corn one ready, corn shredder. Remember I'm staying
away from the ones that I can tell erasis.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So wait, corn shredder.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Corn shredder.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That there is a corn shredder. I got it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
We'll just go you one credit braces.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's like for your teeth and polio back. Then, wait,
what am I the only one guessing?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I can't even know. I can't even think of a
well dress. Let's vodeo dough.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And Kristen is still like just staryeth century corn.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm seeing radios on this list. Explain to you guys
once again. I got it work, I got it. You
didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
What at least I came with a guess.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's a bad dancer, a young man who steps on
ladies feet.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh, like corns on my feet, the hot boils.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Don't forget No one con tickets tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
How about baggage smasher?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Brah, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Is it like a train conductor?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It is not. That's a good guess, though, Christ are
you gonna go with this?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
For some reason, twentieth century, Yeah, baggage smasher.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm thinking of like at a grocery store and the
melons or something. I don't know. This is a hotel
porter who handles trunks.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh my god, you're like Ken Jong, a mass singer.
It's like twentieth century. I'm thinking Megan markle.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
By.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
The next one, pull a bone, pull or pull hole.
I can't see you, Okay, pull butcher.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No, I've heard this and I can't remember what it means.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh, did Mike utter it?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I heard it growing up? You did?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, I was I right, butcher.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I would need you to use that in a sentence,
in a sentence, or pull a bone in a sentence.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I'm a butcher, Ellie, you're wrong. I asked the butcher
to pull a bone.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
But Elliott's now wrong. Definition of butcher should help you, guys.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Did you give a clue by asking that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I wanted you to tell me what version of butcher
you were thinking?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, now I know what it is. Now I know
what it is. You know what it is. You know
what it is? What do I do to the English
language every day?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But thank you?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It is to make a stupid mistake here there you go.
How about boob tickler?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Elliott?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
What is a boobtickler? According to early twentieth century US
slang TV repair man, I get where you're going. You're wrong,
but that was good.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Oh my god, I gave two wrong answers.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I know, yeah, that's a boob tickler.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
What's a boob tickler, you bather?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't know? Is it is? It is?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Is?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It kind of like a like a jesture or a fool?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh very good, Diane.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
No, it is a girl who has to entertain her
father's clients or customers from out of town.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh my gosh, no, I like that. That's good.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But I can't put those together anyway. It's not nineteen twenty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Diane, you'll like this one. What's a canceled stamp?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Canceled stamp, A canceled stamp, A canceled stamp, damp.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Ah, God damn it, Diane, you collect stamps.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's why I said she'd like it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Canceled stamp, something that is no longer relevant.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Goodbye, the canceled state.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Like a buzzer. It's a shy girl at a dance
or a party.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That's good. That's good. I like that. I like that. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This one.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I feel like Kristin should get a Chicago typewriter.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh a journalist.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No, oh, they have to be in a sentence, right,
not what it like? No, just kidding, what is it?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I don't know what definition? But Butcher has multiple definitions.
Just what is the Chicago typewriter?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
If I said to you, what is the Chicago typewriter?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
A Chicago typewriter is a journalist. No, it is not,
at least I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Think of the era, Think of the location.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh, I got another guest. Can I guess I guess I.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Have something to do with the murrcantile exchange?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It is the guy who keeps it's the it's the
the mafia boss who keeps track of who owes what money?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No, Kristen, that's the being the Windy City Jesus what.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's a Tommy guy. It's a Tommy guy.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That's good with circle this If you guys don't get
this one because it was already referenced on this show
this week this week, but it's on the list here.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, do Dad balls Grease man?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I'm like he's correct for the Greaseman's accessory.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
An accessory Dad is.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Dad Dad's How would you use it then? In the
nineteen twenties, sure, early twenty century?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, can I use it on the good ship Grease?
Or am I on dry land?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh? My god, guys, I already answered three times.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's just a thing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'm a bob.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh, great candy, bar, great candy.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
This one has been trouble for Elliott in the past
on the show Hoity Toity.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh yes, pretentious or snobbish behavior.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
There you go, good one, Diane, that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Is the only person on point? No, yes, no, yes, no?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
How about this? Elliott Gambs legs, Yes, I got that one.
Bobby Sherman, Jizzy skeevy j I z z i E
Jizzyyon husband.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Which jesu Christen?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What's the spelling.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
J I z z i E. Yeah, M A drink?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
No is would it be like a like a like
a like a flashy dress?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Oh? What is it? What is it? It's an unattractive
dame or broad bron was on the list too. I
thought you would know that. What does it mean? If
you're on a toot?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I just got off the phone with doctor Hall. If
I'm on a tune, you're on a roll.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Like a train. No, you sort of guessed this for
the last one.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I don't even remember what she said, oh the Windy City.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh the last one was jizzy. Oh what I don't
remember what I said? A drink?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So if you're on a tune, oh, you're drunk. You're
on a bender, you're on a drinking spree. You guys
worked as a team for that one.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
No point.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What's the petting pantry? Zip? Pretty warm?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Elliott like the petting pantry, said he's warm?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I was gonna say, like like the like a barnyard
or something.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh, dear God, the petting pantry, the petting pantry, massage parlor.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It is a business.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Massage.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You used to work at one movie theater? Yes, really
because of all of the heavy petting.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
The that's good, that's good, remember by Buddy Patrick got
an HJ in the go ahead?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
How about a couple more? One or two more? It's
going great? What's the V spot? Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You want me to yell vagina? But I ain't going
to the B spot intersection. No, No, I swear to God.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
If the answers vagina, you can brainstorm out loud. I'm
trying to think of what that would be in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But John, the bugoon, the B spot, the B spot,
what would that be?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
In the try is victory? No?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
No, no, you're onto something like V day, V Day?
When was that? When was that?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I'll give you a hint. Think more Roman numerals.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Five. Yes, there is two points.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And the last one wang doodle.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Dian wang doodle wangod wang doodle. No, that is a caricature.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No, it is not.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
A wang doodle is also a sun catcher?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Also a thing, Bob, No, it is not.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
A wang catcher. Is a real thing?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, a wang catcher?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
No, well maybe wang doodle.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I tried to avoid the racist ones.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Whang doodle food, give me my pail.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Raymond, Raymond Ramen, everybody loves raymin.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It is lively, noisy, energetic music at a gathering, a
party of performance specifically used for early twentieth century jazz
and ragtime.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Who won?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Who won?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Half to one and a half.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't know that you won?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I did.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I didn't think any of us won game. It was
quite impromptu.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Okay, so so you think out the test when they
go we're gonna have a pop quiz, but you're dancing
Speaker 1 (21:50):
To touch my wing, dude,
Meme stops. How long have you been using that word regularly?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
When did it this?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
At least fifteen ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Ten to fifteen years? Right? When was it last used
so regularly?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Meme?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It predates the internet fifty years ago? Is it British?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The I don't know. I'm in America?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The uh?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So, do you do you do you believe this?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I was reading this thing yesterday. Do you do you
believe this? Kids today and they don't. They don't give
me an age on kids. Kids today are starting to
sound more and more like their grandparents. And they talk
about a resurgent of old time words getting used regularly again.
(01:02):
And one of the ones that they talk about is
meme and they go, people don't realize meme is fifty
years old. No idea like that word was being used
regularly fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What did it describe back then?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I think maybe it's British. The I have no idea.
I have no idea, that's her.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Meme was coined in seventy six by British evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins. It was defined as a unit of cultural
transmission or imitation. It is derived from the Greek word mimema,
which means that which is imitated.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
There you go fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Obviously I was right, that is British. I didn't know
it went back to the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But they talk about how they talk about how words
that and they said a couple of things. So either
somebody hears it and it catches on, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Or it becomes an earworm.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You hear it, it becomes an earworm, and then it's
just top of mind. But for some reason it takes off.
So another word that they point.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Out, brain rot.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's old.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Henry David Thureau coined the term brain rot. Didn't know
that in the nineteenth century. Why But here's the part
that frustrated me. They don't They don't talk about number one,
what did it when when Henry David Thereau, who is
a very very famous old they don't talk about famous
(02:42):
the like what was he what what context was he
using it in?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Like I don't think it was from scrolling.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I'm trying to see here for throw brain rot describes
what happens to our minds and spirits and we suppress
our innate instincts for curingosity and wonder.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now it's just mindlessly doomed, which doomscrolling, I bet is
very old.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, we just don't know if meme and brainrod, I
wouldn't now doubt it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Calling someone a goon is no longer nineteen twenties habit.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's common squad. You see goon all over the place. Yes,
he's a goon acting like a goon. Yeah, No, you're righton.
That's been around since eve.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The But they say like that was a big thing,
like in the nineteen twenties, because that that was like
a bad guy, a bank robber, a mafioso, was a goon.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Another good one, she sh sheesh.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah you see that online.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, you see it everywhere, mostly online. You're right, that
goes like that. Your grandparents' grandparents use.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That because I feel like if I said she, you
would make fun of me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Absolutely, but you do see it, you do see it
written out, Yes, absolutely. Older slang is basically nothing more
than an earworm.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You just need to hear it once for it to
be top of mind.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
But if you hear it over and over, it's going
to get It's going to stick. Somewhere in your brain
and could pop up unexpectedly at any time.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
True, But then what which I get?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Like like, for example, like yap is another one?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Where like way back in the day, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Rosie the Riveter, when somebody was saying, shut your yap
and then it went away forever, But now now yap
is normal.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wasn't Kristen skeating all over the place the other day?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
She was singing?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's an old term.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Skeet's an old term, yeah, like twenty years or older.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Like, no, doesn't skeep mean to to leave to go skidaddle?
Well that's another one, yo. I bet if you look
up skate the definition will be scattle.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why are you writing down?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Because I thought with a J or a G is g.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's definitely a j elliott.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh isn't that with ski?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well maybe in your context.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But you just said it was to skidaddle? Like, oh,
skidattle out of here? Diane?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
What did what does skeet mean to you? You know?
Okay what the song says?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, exactly, Oh skate skate skates skate skate.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That just means skidadda.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here we have a glossary of early twentieth century slang
means to scatter, depart or skidaddle.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh not in the song? Can I go to line one? Hi,
Elliott the morning morning Elliott Dan, Hey, what's up An?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I didn't know my grandparents had the riz before any
of them.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
By the way, is sus what what? What list? Were
you just on?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The glossary of early twentieth century slang.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Is sus on there? But can't you just see an
old gum shoe? O.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
God, gum shoe. No.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Apparently they used hanky for suspicious hanky.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, oh that's what Jake Joe Hansen keeps.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
In his pocket, hanky hanky.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now, I will say I'm scrolling quickly. A lot of
these are racist the well, it's the nineteen twenties ant sexist.
But there's quite a few, and we should play. I
should give you some and see if you can guess
what they are.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Wait, guess the old word?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, no, guess what it means? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh, but you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, I won't do one that's obvious, don't.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, But I mean that if what if?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What if? No word has changed more over time?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And I'm including brain rot with Henry David Thureau no
word has changed in the last fifty years, more than
ski or one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I could I'm going through. I could get you a
couple here to do. This is fun.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's a lot on here. I'm not gonna lie. I'm
only in the bees the bee's knees. Oh, that's an
old saying.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I sink, Kristen say that. Yes, Kristin, you might be
good at this.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, this might be her game.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
This could be you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You want to come in, Yeah, bring your cans? Okay,
let me get a couple more water cans?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Are cans on there? What did cans mean in nineteen twenty?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oops?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No, Diane, No, they didn't. Was kan slang for anything.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
In nineteen Looking up? I'm looking it up.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Like when the like when he was eavesdropping, did the
gum shoe put his cans on?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Can? Is on?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Here? Is it really what it means in nineteen twenty?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
A prison or a holding cell at a police station,
or a run the can a rundown automobile?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Geloppy? No?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That can?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh is JELOPI races?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I gotta be careful here, Hey Elliott, how did you
how'd you finally lose your license?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I uttered jeloppy.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Now that is on here and it just says dumpy
old carve that ski Oh, I know what songs celebrate.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's all that's in my head right now.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, well, okay, I got I got a couple. I'll
give you the term. Well, it's not like this is
an established game.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'll just give you the term and the first person
to give me the proper definition that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Can we just guess? Can we just guess? Yeah? But
who's right?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
What if someone comes with a very similar answer after
another person, Like somebody spelled.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It with a G and somebody spelled it with a J.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, I'm ready, I'll just I'll start in the a's
right here. I like this one. Ready.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wait, this is.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Early twenty I'm so nervous, early twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Why are you writing that down?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Twentieth century? I liked, I gotta see the word.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You're going to write down the word? I will have
screamed the answer five times?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What's the word?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Well, I haven't given it yet, Diana, you're ready, yep,
Jaloppe acknowledge the corn.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
See you soon, So you're out right?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, that's Joe acknowledge the corn, oh truth, and I
can tell you how I got there.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Truth.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You're saying the word, so that's what that means. You're
saying truth is the meaning of acknowledge.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
The corn is truth.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Is anyone else got to guess? I don't even know
what to say because.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You're not thinking. I can tell you exactly how I
got there.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Every story has a kernel of truth. Kernel corn comes
from a kernel.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I would say it has something to do with looking
in the field. And if the corn is ready to
be picked, then can I just tell you what it is? It?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Smitt responsibility for? So I do think that Elliott.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Was kind of there? You were warm? Yeah, yeah, I
don't know if you would get a point.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
For I don't need a point. Well I do because
I'm not winning it.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Here's another corn one ready, corn shredder. Remember I'm staying
away from the ones that I can tell erasis.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So wait, corn shredder.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Corn shredder.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That there is a corn shredder. I got it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
We'll just go you one credit braces.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's like for your teeth and polio back. Then, wait,
what am I the only one guessing?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I can't even know. I can't even think of a
well dress. Let's vodeo dough.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And Kristen is still like just staryeth century corn.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm seeing radios on this list. Explain to you guys
once again. I got it work, I got it. You
didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
What at least I came with a guess.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's a bad dancer, a young man who steps on
ladies feet.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh, like corns on my feet, the hot boils.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Don't forget No one con tickets tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
How about baggage smasher?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Brah, I'm out.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Is it like a train conductor?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It is not. That's a good guess, though, Christ are
you gonna go with this?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
For some reason, twentieth century, Yeah, baggage smasher.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm thinking of like at a grocery store and the
melons or something. I don't know. This is a hotel
porter who handles trunks.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh my god, you're like Ken Jong, a mass singer.
It's like twentieth century. I'm thinking Megan markle.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
By.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
The next one, pull a bone, pull or pull hole.
I can't see you, Okay, pull butcher.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No, I've heard this and I can't remember what it means.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh, did Mike utter it?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I heard it growing up? You did?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, I was I right, butcher.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I would need you to use that in a sentence,
in a sentence, or pull a bone in a sentence.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I'm a butcher, Ellie, you're wrong. I asked the butcher
to pull a bone.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
But Elliott's now wrong. Definition of butcher should help you, guys.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Did you give a clue by asking that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I wanted you to tell me what version of butcher
you were thinking?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, now I know what it is. Now I know
what it is. You know what it is. You know
what it is? What do I do to the English
language every day?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But thank you?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It is to make a stupid mistake here there you go.
How about boob tickler?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Elliott?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
What is a boobtickler? According to early twentieth century US
slang TV repair man, I get where you're going. You're wrong,
but that was good.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Oh my god, I gave two wrong answers.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I know, yeah, that's a boob tickler.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
What's a boob tickler, you bather?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I don't know? Is it is? It is?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Is?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It kind of like a like a jesture or a fool?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh very good, Diane.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
No, it is a girl who has to entertain her
father's clients or customers from out of town.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh my gosh, no, I like that. That's good.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But I can't put those together anyway. It's not nineteen twenty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Diane, you'll like this one. What's a canceled stamp?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Canceled stamp, A canceled stamp, A canceled stamp, damp.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Ah, God damn it, Diane, you collect stamps.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That's why I said she'd like it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Canceled stamp, something that is no longer relevant.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Goodbye, the canceled state.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Like a buzzer. It's a shy girl at a dance
or a party.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That's good. That's good. I like that. I like that. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This one.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I feel like Kristin should get a Chicago typewriter.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh a journalist.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No, oh, they have to be in a sentence, right,
not what it like? No, just kidding, what is it?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I don't know what definition? But Butcher has multiple definitions.
Just what is the Chicago typewriter?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
If I said to you, what is the Chicago typewriter?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
A Chicago typewriter is a journalist. No, it is not,
at least I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Think of the era, Think of the location.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh, I got another guest. Can I guess I guess I.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Have something to do with the murrcantile exchange?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It is the guy who keeps it's the it's the
the mafia boss who keeps track of who owes what money?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No, Kristen, that's the being the Windy City Jesus what.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's a Tommy guy. It's a Tommy guy.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That's good with circle this If you guys don't get
this one because it was already referenced on this show
this week this week, but it's on the list here.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, do Dad balls Grease man?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I'm like he's correct for the Greaseman's accessory.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
An accessory Dad is.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Dad Dad's How would you use it then? In the
nineteen twenties, sure, early twenty century?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, can I use it on the good ship Grease?
Or am I on dry land?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh? My god, guys, I already answered three times.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's just a thing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'm a bob.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh, great candy, bar, great candy.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
This one has been trouble for Elliott in the past
on the show Hoity Toity.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh yes, pretentious or snobbish behavior.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
There you go, good one, Diane, that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Is the only person on point? No, yes, no, yes, no?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
How about this? Elliott Gambs legs, Yes, I got that one.
Bobby Sherman, Jizzy skeevy j I z z i E
Jizzyyon husband.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Which jesu Christen?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What's the spelling.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
J I z z i E. Yeah, M A drink?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
No is would it be like a like a like
a like a flashy dress?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Oh? What is it? What is it? It's an unattractive
dame or broad bron was on the list too. I
thought you would know that. What does it mean? If
you're on a toot?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I just got off the phone with doctor Hall. If
I'm on a tune, you're on a roll.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Like a train. No, you sort of guessed this for
the last one.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I don't even remember what she said, oh the Windy City.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh the last one was jizzy. Oh what I don't
remember what I said? A drink?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So if you're on a tune, oh, you're drunk. You're
on a bender, you're on a drinking spree. You guys
worked as a team for that one.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
No point.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What's the petting pantry? Zip? Pretty warm?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Elliott like the petting pantry, said he's warm?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I was gonna say, like like the like a barnyard
or something.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh, dear God, the petting pantry, the petting pantry, massage parlor.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It is a business.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Massage.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You used to work at one movie theater? Yes, really
because of all of the heavy petting.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
The that's good, that's good, remember by Buddy Patrick got
an HJ in the go ahead?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
How about a couple more? One or two more? It's
going great? What's the V spot? Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You want me to yell vagina? But I ain't going
to the B spot intersection. No, No, I swear to God.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
If the answers vagina, you can brainstorm out loud. I'm
trying to think of what that would be in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But John, the bugoon, the B spot, the B spot,
what would that be?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
In the try is victory? No?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
No, no, you're onto something like V day, V Day?
When was that? When was that?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I'll give you a hint. Think more Roman numerals.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Five. Yes, there is two points.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And the last one wang doodle.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Dian wang doodle wangod wang doodle. No, that is a caricature.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No, it is not.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
A wang doodle is also a sun catcher?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Also a thing, Bob, No, it is not.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
A wang catcher. Is a real thing?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, a wang catcher?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
No, well maybe wang doodle.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I tried to avoid the racist ones.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Whang doodle food, give me my pail.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Raymond, Raymond Ramen, everybody loves raymin.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It is lively, noisy, energetic music at a gathering, a
party of performance specifically used for early twentieth century jazz
and ragtime.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Who won?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Who won?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Half to one and a half.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't know that you won?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I did.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I didn't think any of us won game. It was
quite impromptu.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Okay, so so you think out the test when they
go we're gonna have a pop quiz, but you're dancing
Speaker 1 (21:50):
To touch my wing, dude,
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