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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 19, 2015 21:49:12 GMT -5
Remember when '60s Spider-man went around calling all his villains "Bright Eyes?" Was that a thing in the sixties? Howcome the Scorpion was never "Bushy Tail?"
I never heard that outside of comics.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 19, 2015 21:53:33 GMT -5
Remember when '60s Spider-man went around calling all his villains "Bright Eyes?" Was that a thing in the sixties? Howcome the Scorpion was never "Bushy Tail?" I never heard that outside of comics. Bright Eyes was slang for a lookout on a criminal caper. It was a bit long in the tooth in the 60s. But there you go.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 19, 2015 21:54:13 GMT -5
Remember when '60s Spider-man went around calling all his villains "Bright Eyes?" Was that a thing in the sixties? Howcome the Scorpion was never "Bushy Tail?" I never heard that outside of comics. Bright Eyes was slang for a lookout on a criminal caper. It was a bit long in the tooth in the 60s. But there you go. Huh. I had no idea.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 19, 2015 21:55:23 GMT -5
Bright Eyes was slang for a lookout on a criminal caper. It was a bit long in the tooth in the 60s. But there you go. Huh. I had no idea. It seems like it evolved from a term for a lookout for smugglers bringing stuff in from Mexico in the American Southwest.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 22:08:38 GMT -5
I love the way they talked in the 30's and 40's. My favorite stuff is the stuff they wouldn't replicate in a period piece today because it's just so corny. The ruthless gangsters in Dick Tracy saying the funniest things.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 22:21:26 GMT -5
Ya know...maybe I'll finally get this book in 2016? I've only failed about 10 years so far.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 19, 2015 22:24:26 GMT -5
As I discovered a few years back while reading something completely unrelated to comics, "blue beetle" was a 1930s-era slang term for a police squad car. Thus there was more to that hero's name than a simple echo of the Green Hornet.
Cei-U! I summon the entomological etymology... or vice versa!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 19, 2015 22:26:57 GMT -5
Ya know...maybe I'll finally get this book in 2016? I've only failed about 10 years so far. If Humberto Ramos drew the update to this story, it would look like Peyronie's disease
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Post by realjla on Dec 19, 2015 23:55:38 GMT -5
As I discovered a few years back while reading something completely unrelated to comics, "blue beetle" was a 1930s-era slang term for a police squad car. Thus there was more to that hero's name than a simple echo of the Green Hornet. Cei-U! I summon the entomological etymology... or vice versa! Wasn't the original (pre-Dan Garrett) Beetle a policeman? I used to like the phrase, "Holy Hannah", although for much of my childhood, I misinterpreted it as "Holy Hyena". Jonathan Kent helped preserve a lot of "rural religious slang", such as "Jehosophat!", "Land O'Goshen", and "Tarnation!"
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 20, 2015 2:52:49 GMT -5
As I discovered a few years back while reading something completely unrelated to comics, "blue beetle" was a 1930s-era slang term for a police squad car. Thus there was more to that hero's name than a simple echo of the Green Hornet. Cei-U! I summon the entomological etymology... or vice versa! Wasn't the original (pre-Dan Garrett) Beetle a policeman? Yes, police officer Dan Garret.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 4:07:00 GMT -5
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Post by Nowhere Man on Dec 20, 2015 5:40:21 GMT -5
Some of my favorites are "Great Scott!" and "What's the big idea?" I also like it when someone is called a "piker." One that I never understood, but found hilarious, was when a villain would say something like, "And now I will destroy you...forever!" Some of that's not technically slang, granted.
I'd estimate that 80% of my favorite bits of comic book slang were uttered by The Thing in the 60's.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Dec 20, 2015 6:46:51 GMT -5
Ya know...maybe I'll finally get this book in 2016? I've only failed about 10 years so far. The Joker would have had a lot more success "making boners" if he'd teamed up with Harley Quinn at this point.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 20, 2015 7:18:29 GMT -5
I love and sometimes even use the early Judge Dredd made-up slang from 2000AD, like "Drokk!"
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Post by Nowhere Man on Dec 20, 2015 8:02:15 GMT -5
I want DC to publish a small comic that's devoted entirely to translating the gang-slang from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.
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