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Topic: Photo of the week 651 (April 15, 2017)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-15-2017 03:06 AM
   
 Signs in the crew quarters at Cape Kennedy welcome Gemini 8 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott after their arrival from Honolulu, where they were taken following their pickup from the Pacific Ocean on March 17, 1966. |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 04-15-2017 07:20 AM
Who's Big Al? |
Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 244
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 04-15-2017 07:37 AM
Shepard.
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carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-16-2017 09:33 AM
Nifty and dandy? |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 04-16-2017 06:58 PM
Nifty meant like "swell" or someone very handy; Dandy, like a clean cut fella or well manscaped for the times.There was a brief span of time then where, well, you just had to be there, to acquire the meaning of the slang then. |
DFBrunswick
Member Posts: 40
From: California, USA
Registered: May 2015
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posted 05-14-2017 02:02 AM
Carmelo, you were curious about what some of the slang words meant. Those words fell out of use by the early 1970s but people growing up in the 70s still understood what they meant. I knew these kinds of words would eventually be forgotten but I am curious when that happened, with what generation. May I ask what age you are? Yours might be the first generation that never heard those kinds of words. |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 05-14-2017 06:27 AM
Could be that Carmelo is from Italy ... hard to pick up slang in any foreign language, particular 50-year-old slang! |
SpaceyInMN
Member Posts: 355
From: Andover, MN
Registered: Dec 2013
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posted 05-14-2017 03:50 PM
I'm guessing, also, that the language difference is what tripped Carmelo up, rather than the time period of the slang. I'm 41, and while I didn't live in the time period these words were used, they're not out of the lexicon entirely.On the other hand, I had nine years of German, and majored in it in college. I understand it fairly well, but still struggle with slang and regional words and phrases (particularly since I haven't used it much since graduating). It's very difficult to acquire that without being continuously immersed in the language. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 05-19-2017 10:06 AM
I think that are many slang dictonaries from the different ages (many on eBay). But the terms "nifty" and "dandy" are from post war slang or more old? |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 05-19-2017 04:26 PM
Both from mid 1800s from my Google research. |
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