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Here is some slang from the 20's. Time to bring it back (1 Viewer)

i still use some of those and other anachronistic words because they are still a factor in gamblespeak. deadpiece, aniscule, mallards, etc. my director cousin has wanted to update the musical Guys & Dolls for a long time and, when he goes back to working on it now & then, he consults me on which words would still play in that world.

 
i still say things are the berries because my old man said it take that to the bank brohans 

 
i still use some of those and other anachronistic words because they are still a factor in gamblespeak. deadpiece, aniscule, mallards, etc. my director cousin has wanted to update the musical Guys & Dolls for a long time and, when he goes back to working on it now & then, he consults me on which words would still play in that world.
What does mallard mean?  Upperclassmen used to call freshman "mallards" when I was in high school.  I don't remember anyone knowing why.\

Edit: Maybe just an "easy target"?

 
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NOTHING will top Brando singing Luck Be a Lady, and Sinatra kvetching around like a schmuck. So tell him to sit down, he's rocking the boat.
:lmao:  It's the first thing he wanted to do after his Chicago and, the only time i've taken compensation (and my 1st laptop) from him was when i suggested i could change  "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" to the World Series of Poker @ Binion's (now @ Rio, of course). I would STILL love to see the opening he conceived at the Fremont Street Experience. We even worked on a modern gamblespeak language with which to capitalize on the burgeoning popularity of the game (this was the year of the Chris Moneymaker win, which really kicked off the poker boom), but we couldn't work a way to keep the corny romantic sentiments of too many songs and we finally crapped out.

 
:lmao:  It's the first thing he wanted to do after his Chicago and, the only time i've taken compensation (and my 1st laptop) from him was when i suggested i could change  "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" to the World Series of Poker @ Binion's (now @ Rio, of course). I would STILL love to see the opening he conceived at the Fremont Street Experience. We even worked on a modern gamblespeak language with which to capitalize on the burgeoning popularity of the game (this was the year of the Chris Moneymaker win, which really kicked off the poker boom), but we couldn't work a way to keep the corny romantic sentiments of too many songs and we finally crapped out.
Sky Masterson betting he could corrupt a Vegas showgirl instead of Sarah Brown probably wouldn't have worked as well.  

 
Sky Masterson betting he could corrupt a Vegas showgirl instead of Sarah Brown probably wouldn't have worked as well.  
We had Sarah Brown worked out - i was proud of finding a way to keep her Salvation Army. It was actually Adelaide - we'd have lost three of Rob's favorite G&D numbers updating her.

 
We had Sarah Brown worked out - i was proud of finding a way to keep her Salvation Army. It was actually Adelaide - we'd have lost three of Rob's favorite G&D numbers updating her.
The Wikipedia article about the movie says that she was shoehorned in because the actress they wanted wasn't 'pure' looking enough to pull off Sarah Brown but they wanted her in it anyway. Wasn't a fan of Adelaide, now I know why.

 
The Wikipedia article about the movie says that she was shoehorned in because the actress they wanted wasn't 'pure' looking enough to pull off Sarah Brown but they wanted her in it anyway. Wasn't a fan of Adelaide, now I know why.
yeah, i wanted to kinda lose/rewrite Adelaide cuz her songs were too anachronistic, but that turned out not to be an option. And by that petard was the project hoisted. Another close call for an imdb credit....whew!!

 
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Been saying “don’t take any wooden nickels” since I was a kid. Didn’t realize it was from way back in the ‘20’s.

 
... so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

 

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