27 Mar 2021, 7:28 am
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea 
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They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
27 Mar 2021, 8:39 am
maycontainthunder wrote:
Originally the word "gay" meant happy. If you listen carefully to the original Flintstones theme there is the line "we're gonna have a gay ol time." but this actually means happy. It is used in old films to mean happy but to our ears now it doesn't make sense without understanding the past meaning.
So, Gaytime actually means Happytime but to modern ears it means something else.
So, Gaytime actually means Happytime but to modern ears it means something else.
You talk about this as if it were actually newsworthy!
Or maybe I am old fashioned. But I assumed that everyone knew that "gay" means "carefree, happy", but also has that other newfangled slang meaning.
I watched the Flintstones when it was first run as a grade school kid, and grew up singing "don we now our gay apparel" in school, and heard about "the gay Nineties", and "gay Paree (Paris)", and the word didnt take on its present meaning until I was like college age in the Seventies.
So to me its really weird to read someone earnestly dissect the word usage of "the Flintstones" like a scholar dissects the word usage of Shakespeare for a modern audience. I must be as old as Mathuselah! My childhood having a "gay old time" watching the Flintstones is now as archaic as Elizabethan Times!
27 Mar 2021, 8:49 am
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27 Mar 2021, 9:20 am
27 Mar 2021, 10:04 am
IsabellaLinton wrote:
I know women named Gaye. I don't know what the big deal is. Whether it means "happy" or has the newer meaning, none of the meanings are offensive. I hate when society decides to make a big deal out of words, but they do nothing to change their own private bigotry.
Back in the 80s I helped run a little two man branch of a store chain with another guy my age. We played a local easy listening station in the store for the public. The other guy would get embarrased just from them announcing the station's call letters: W-G-A-Y fm.
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27 Mar 2021, 11:50 am
I've had plenty of golden gaytimes. 
Never tried that ice cream, though.
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27 Mar 2021, 6:32 pm
Juliette wrote:
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea .
They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
. They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
There's plenty of pollywaffle in canberra
27 Mar 2021, 6:36 pm
Aprilviolets wrote:
Juliette wrote:
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea .
They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
. They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
There's plenty of pollywaffle in canberra
I still remember the polly waffle adverts from the 1970s.....pollywaffle....mmm.....crunch.....ahhhh
27 Mar 2021, 6:37 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
I know women named Gaye. I don't know what the big deal is. Whether it means "happy" or has the newer meaning, none of the meanings are offensive. I hate when society decides to make a big deal out of words, but they do nothing to change their own private bigotry.
Back in the 80s I helped run a little two man branch of a store chain with another guy my age. We played a local easy listening station in the store for the public. The other guy would get embarrased just from them announcing the station's call letters: W-G-A-Y fm.
Did you have a branch in San Francisco? You would have made a lot of money playing that music
27 Mar 2021, 6:39 pm
cyberdad wrote:
Aprilviolets wrote:
Juliette wrote:
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea .
They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
. They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
There's plenty of pollywaffle in canberra
I still remember the polly waffle adverts from the 1970s.....pollywaffle....mmm.....crunch.....ahhhh
I remember that too and kids at school would pull your finger back.
27 Mar 2021, 6:40 pm
27 Mar 2021, 6:41 pm
Aprilviolets wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Aprilviolets wrote:
Juliette wrote:
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea .
They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
. They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
There's plenty of pollywaffle in canberra
I still remember the polly waffle adverts from the 1970s.....pollywaffle....mmm.....crunch.....ahhhh
I remember that too and kids at school would pull your finger back.
is that to simulate the "aaahhh": noise?
27 Mar 2021, 6:42 pm
cyberdad wrote:
Aprilviolets wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Aprilviolets wrote:
Juliette wrote:
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea .
They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
. They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
There's plenty of pollywaffle in canberra
I still remember the polly waffle adverts from the 1970s.....pollywaffle....mmm.....crunch.....ahhhh
I remember that too and kids at school would pull your finger back.
Yes.
is that to simulate the "aaahhh": noise?
27 Mar 2021, 7:27 pm
Aprilviolets wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Aprilviolets wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Aprilviolets wrote:
Juliette wrote:
^^^ I’ve not seen that before(I used to make a special tea for my voice before performing). It used to be a case of chewing gum or tea .
They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
. They’re bringing back the classic Polly Waffle in Aus in 2022 I hear ...
There's plenty of pollywaffle in canberra
I still remember the polly waffle adverts from the 1970s.....pollywaffle....mmm.....crunch.....ahhhh
I remember that too and kids at school would pull your finger back.
Yes.
is that to simulate the "aaahhh": noise?
In our school boys would simulate doing a number 2 while singing the Polly waffle jingle
27 Mar 2021, 7:53 pm
Juliette wrote:
I sometimes read books that use the older meaning of gay and it can be difficult to maintain, well, a straight face. My aunt gave me a book not too long ago which featured the quote "Being around all these women sure makes me feel gay!" and I burst out laughing. I know it meant that being around the women made him happy because he found them attractive, but I found it amusing to just imagine him walking into the room and looking at the women and proceeding to bluntly insult them.
Personally I think if I ever I went to Australia, I would buy one of these just to make bad puns. And for the ice cream
. Nice to know the name was kept.
27 Mar 2021, 7:57 pm
Lost_dragon wrote:
Juliette wrote:
I sometimes read books that use the older meaning of gay and it can be difficult to maintain, well, a straight face. My aunt gave me a book not too long ago which featured the quote "Being around all these women sure makes me feel gay!" and I burst out laughing. I know it meant that being around the women made him happy because he found them attractive, but I found it amusing to just imagine him walking into the room and looking at the women and proceeding to bluntly insult them.
Personally I think if I ever I went to Australia, I would buy one of these just to make bad puns. And for the ice cream
. Nice to know the name was kept.I know right....It's hard to believe the Streets marketing team didn't make that pun "Its hard to have a gaytime on your own" without knowing the double entendre
