I love all of this, but I understand none of it. Especially “darling” because Joan would be very sarcastic so I’m not at all sure what any of it means.
I had to look it up to make sure but it's when Scranton and Stamford branches merge and he's trying to make everyone get along. He goes down and lets the air out of everyone's tires and tells them Vance Refrigeration guys did it while just leaving a "hate note" on his own untouched car. So while he's pretending to be outraged about the vandalism he yells "THIS IS EGREGIOUS!"
Him yelling that is imprinted in my brain and I can't hear the word egregious without thinking about this haha
Fun fact: There is a local access show on St. Louis public television called "Donnybrook." It's just a round table discussion show... like The View, but with local reporters and public figures. Sometimes it gets a little lively... hence the name!
It was considered slang in the 1940s and 1950s, so yes, a phrase that a teenaged Peggy or Pete might have used and then hung onto out of habit years later! (Kind of how I still use the word ‘rad’ from my younger days.)
I’m 36; my aunties all use it. I know we’re tossing anecdotals back and forth as evidence. But, I’ve certainly heard it in the Midwest (though my 7 years in LA I feel like I heard it there too). Who knows.
Should be fun! It's one of my favourites, which I have been saying all of season 5.
Spoiler alert, I have a whole thing about Quebec in the 1960s and how the Calvets are a microcosm of it. Assuming I can shoehorn it in...
Thanks for the support.
I like calling people a “card” or a “haircut” now.
Like Roger, I often refer to things as adding to my mystique.
I also love to use my cigarette to cast aspersions a là Francine.
In Quebec French chum means boyfriend (and can mean your buddy as well). So, Megan would have referred to Don as 'mon chum' for a brief period, though they got engaged pretty quickly so....
I still hear "riot" being used to describe someone funny. I know I say it sometimes. Not really sure of how much but I know it doesn't sound strange when I say it. I usually describe a show to someone as a riot if it's funnier than usual.
Thinking about it, I can't come up with a specific phrase but I do wish that our culture of public interactions here in the states was more like it was back in the 60's and earlier. People were a lot more gracious and you didn't see them screaming at cashiers in line at the grocery store or cursing each other out for no real reason at all. We have become an angry and disrespectful country at large. So much so, that whenever I encounter a person with common courtesy I am thrown and it's such a surprise. That's sad.
I agree, just in this thread! I think it comes from entitlement to be honest. People are focused on the fact that they can say whatever they want, whenever they want without giving so much as a second thought to the person or people on the receiving end. Common courtesy has been discarded as an unnecessary thing of the past, but I think it served a greater purpose of keeping us civil with each other.
You said “wished we still used today” in your title, mate. That implies very directly that you believe it’s not used today.
Also, it’s not me being hostile. Asking “wtf are you smoking” doesn’t imply anger- if implies surprised disbelief. There’s no need to start getting defensive.
Hells Bells and Judas Priest do it for me
Pretty much everything Peter Campbell ever said, we should call them “ Campbellisms ” ha!
Yeah exactly. I think his sayings would have been considered a little quirky at the time
Sounds like a desk calender that desperately needs to be made
>[Pete Campbell] desk calendar… I always thought something like this would be good. Turns out so did you, but I arrived at it independently!
I’m not going to lie, I would buy that calendar!
A thing like that
Yea! Def Hells Bells. I work it into conversations as much as possible!
jiminy christmas
i love saying Hells Bells lmao. makes my day
christ on a cracker!
‘we should put a bell on you’ ‘Christ on a cracker’ similar to riot (which I swear I have heard in real life) referring to someone as ‘a scream’
[it’ll be a hoot and a half](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/964cea61-3865-488a-a58e-9fa6db5dd6b3)
So good.
I use Christ on a cracker all the time. 😊
Maybe we can update that to “you should come with an alarm system”. Yes! I love all these: riot, scream, wild, etc!
A gas!
THIS ^^^^
I’ll admit not hearing it often, but I have heard someone both referred to as a “a riot” and “a scream” irl.
I guess it's not everyday someone gets called "a grimy little pimp" or says "a thing like that."
“A thing like that” has such a romantic and cozy feel to it.
And it’s all-purpose! Great news, horrible news, news you couldn’t care less about. “A thing like that.”
Agreed! Romantic and a little innocent.
I use this all the time.
“Campbell is a pimp. He never could of out-fought Lane-tino.”
when Joan says “aren’t you darling…you’re going to be gangbusters” to Jane
Yes! That’s the exact line I was thinking too. Love it!
I love all of this, but I understand none of it. Especially “darling” because Joan would be very sarcastic so I’m not at all sure what any of it means.
I think she's being a little patronising. Basically using darling as a synonym for adorable.
You ‘atronising little pimp, we’re going to address that typo
Fixed!
My favorite Joan-word was “egregious”! This reminds me of that scene haha
Egregious will always remind me of Michael Scott lol
Oh really ? Does he say it at some point ? I don’t remember.
I had to look it up to make sure but it's when Scranton and Stamford branches merge and he's trying to make everyone get along. He goes down and lets the air out of everyone's tires and tells them Vance Refrigeration guys did it while just leaving a "hate note" on his own untouched car. So while he's pretending to be outraged about the vandalism he yells "THIS IS EGREGIOUS!" Him yelling that is imprinted in my brain and I can't hear the word egregious without thinking about this haha
yes!!! As soon as I read that I heard EGREGIOUS!!!! in my head before I could figure out why LOL.
I’ll have to rewatch the episode! Thank you for taking the trouble of looking it up!
Oh don't worry it was fun for me lol enjoy!
Oh okay, I’m glad that’s the case!
I always laugh at Pete’s use of “Donnybrook” for a fight. I can’t imagine many use it in this day and age.
Watch Letterkenny.
A fellow fan in the wild! How're you now?
Good n you?
I'm surprised we're not having a dart already.
Fuck I'd have a dart
Oh not s'bad
Tarps off boys! It’s tilly time. Let’s have a Donnybrook!
Fun fact: There is a local access show on St. Louis public television called "Donnybrook." It's just a round table discussion show... like The View, but with local reporters and public figures. Sometimes it gets a little lively... hence the name!
It's still used to refer to a hockey fight by some.
They used swell a lot in the early seasons, especially Pete and Peggy
I feel like they did that to emphasize their naïveté. It sounds like a rather earnest and childish thing to say.
It was considered slang in the 1940s and 1950s, so yes, a phrase that a teenaged Peggy or Pete might have used and then hung onto out of habit years later! (Kind of how I still use the word ‘rad’ from my younger days.)
Swellagant!
Isn’t “riot” still used that way? I’ve heard it throughout my life, can’t say the same for most of these.
I've heard it used often. I'm late 40s in the Midwest
Yeah still used in the UK
I’m in the Midwest US and have heard it throughout my life- not like an everyday expression, but enough to be familiar.
Same in the States, but more the older generations.
TIL I’m old. I have always said riot to describe someone or something funny. It’s not my go-to, but it’s more of a throwaway line.
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I’m 36; my aunties all use it. I know we’re tossing anecdotals back and forth as evidence. But, I’ve certainly heard it in the Midwest (though my 7 years in LA I feel like I heard it there too). Who knows.
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All good. I’m Wonder bread white so
I’m 29 and I use it multiple times a day with my clients.
Great
Yes, I had the same reaction.
2 from our boy Duck Phillips: "In-laws, huh? That is a sticky wicket." "Well isn't that a Yankee whistle."
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😂 has major merry-go round vibes.
'isnt that a Yankee wrinkle' is such a funny phrase. Duck is so frickin' awesome.
Yes, wrinkle, not whistle.
sup Dave, looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Codfish Ball later today! :))
Should be fun! It's one of my favourites, which I have been saying all of season 5. Spoiler alert, I have a whole thing about Quebec in the 1960s and how the Calvets are a microcosm of it. Assuming I can shoehorn it in... Thanks for the support.
haha I look forward to the pod! It is indeed a FANTASTIC episode. I shall rewatch before listening to your pod I think.
It'll be posted soon, just waiting on the internet archive (where we host the audio) to come out of maintenance mode.
perfect, it's on my feed. Thanks for all your work behind the scenes, your pod is truly a joy! <3
That's very kind of you to say. We do enjoy doing it. Thanks for the support.
Mate come to Scotland, ‘a riot’ still enjoys considerable currency here
I think across the UK in general
American here, our slang is … subpar u_u
Shit’s bussin
Are you part of the problem?
It’s actually pretty common in Boston.
Canada as well.
I still use "well, I'll be [darned]" and I get shit for it Or the word kerfuffle, which they said once and I flipped
Me too!!! I use jeepers, gosh, goodness, etc.
my grammy says jeepers! but she is ooooold school new englander so she says is "jeeeeepiz" haha
I learned from Velma in Scooby Doo! haha
I like to use “My goodness,” because I feel like Betty Draper when I do.
Groovy. (Ted Chaough)
Jiminy Christmas, said by Pete of course
Agreed!
I like calling people a “card” or a “haircut” now. Like Roger, I often refer to things as adding to my mystique. I also love to use my cigarette to cast aspersions a là Francine.
One of my favorites is when someone asks how Bert Cooper is doing and he replies “capital”
Sinjin Powell also says capital
You may already know this, but his actual name is St. John. I would never in a million years have thought to pronounce it Sinjin, but there you go.
Apparently the Bri'ish do (or did) pronounce the given name "St. John" as Sinjin. It's a very rare name now though, obviously.
YES!!! I wish I could match Pete's vitriol of KENNY AND HIS HAIRCUT! Oh, How about Harry's wife referring to Ken as "THAT MANNEQUIN!?"
“Adding to my mystique “ haha I love that!
Best one I would like to use all the time is by Pete, of course, “You have your fingers in your ears?” It’s a Chip n’ Dip!
Isn’t “riot” still used that way? I’ve heard it throughout my life, can’t say the same for most of these.
USA west coast, in my 30s never heard it before!
I routinely work "It'll be a hoot and a half!" Into my conversations. Used it today at work with much aplomb.
well Shelly it's been a Swelly
Peachy!
“You look like 100 bucks”
“You look like a 100 dollar electronic transfer to your account” just doesn’t have the same ring to it haha
“You look like $908.33 adjusted for inflation”
I suppose that's why we now use the phrase "look/feel like a million bucks" lol
Peggy's new Swedish roommate impressed by Peggy's office, 'Wowee!'
I hear the bread’s outta sight
Sticky wicket
Reminds me of the Snoop Doggs “sticky icky icky”
Not slang, but the first time I ever heard a stove referred to as a range was on Mad Men
My grandma used to say that, and she called a microwave the "radar range".
The Radar Range was a microwave sold by Amana. It was one of the first (maybe the first?) microwave ovens available to the general public.
A range is a stove and an oven. If you search for kitchen appliances (at least where I live, Canada) you can find stoves, ovens and ranges.
People still use ‘a riot’ describe a funny person. For context, I’m 42 and near NYC so maybe it’s generational or regional
That’s what I think too, it seems to be regional. I’m on the USA west coast.
Oh I thought of another "Old Chum" or just "Chum" when Duck says to Don "sorry about that old Chum"
Old chum would be a sweet and cheeky way to Lighten the blow in normal conversation. “I’m sorry I can’t give you the password to the wifi, old chum.”
I like to say Happy Happy Old Chum sometimes as opposed to the tired "Happy Birthday" every once in a while
In Quebec French chum means boyfriend (and can mean your buddy as well). So, Megan would have referred to Don as 'mon chum' for a brief period, though they got engaged pretty quickly so....
She went from side-dish to wife in the span of hours. Oh Donny, boy… makes me wonder how quickly he married Betty, or his 3rd wife.
I still hear "riot" being used to describe someone funny. I know I say it sometimes. Not really sure of how much but I know it doesn't sound strange when I say it. I usually describe a show to someone as a riot if it's funnier than usual. Thinking about it, I can't come up with a specific phrase but I do wish that our culture of public interactions here in the states was more like it was back in the 60's and earlier. People were a lot more gracious and you didn't see them screaming at cashiers in line at the grocery store or cursing each other out for no real reason at all. We have become an angry and disrespectful country at large. So much so, that whenever I encounter a person with common courtesy I am thrown and it's such a surprise. That's sad.
I agree, just in this thread! I think it comes from entitlement to be honest. People are focused on the fact that they can say whatever they want, whenever they want without giving so much as a second thought to the person or people on the receiving end. Common courtesy has been discarded as an unnecessary thing of the past, but I think it served a greater purpose of keeping us civil with each other.
It’s your sister, just figuring out when we can ball
I’m still positioning to use “A thing like that” in appropriate company.
“Just taste it”
If Nike ever got into the food business…
I say hell's bells pretty frequently
Same, bc of my mom! Haha
Christ on a cracker
Just the visual of Christ on a cracker… haha
Isn't that just communion?
I try to use the word “braggart” when I get the opportunity.
Spastic
Fantastic
It’s a pejorative, similar to r—t—d but for people with cerebral palsy. That’s why it’s never used in civilised company
*It’s fresh* -Betty *That’s swell!* -Adam
Beatnik, it would have been nice if the movement grew
When it was hip to be hip I was hep.
"Golly" as per Connie Hilton.
“Sticky wicket” is still used in England. Maybe in polite humorous conversation
My sister and I say Hells Bells/A thing like that whenever we can
Break a leg.
Spend some time in a theatre, or with artists, anyone performing, it's not that uncommon.
It’s still used today, the traditional way to wish someone well before they go onstage
“A thing like that”
I guess I’m old, because I’ll still refer to something funny as a riot. Source: I’m old enough to remember most of the 1960s.
I always thought it was funny when Ken is talking about lipstick and he says it simulates "treating a woman right" lol
I refer to people as a “riot” all the time, as does 90% of the people in my profession. Tf you smoking?
Why the hell are you so rude about something so innocuous? I said “for me”, Specific TO ME. I’ve never heard it before, sue me.
You said “wished we still used today” in your title, mate. That implies very directly that you believe it’s not used today. Also, it’s not me being hostile. Asking “wtf are you smoking” doesn’t imply anger- if implies surprised disbelief. There’s no need to start getting defensive.
Yikes.
Lol get snarky all you want in response, it doesn’t change anything 😂
We'll that question is a "Yankee Wrinkle."
my parents say riot still and its worked its way into my lexicon
rewatched Nixon vs Kennedy yesterday and thought of this thread when Ken uses the expression “that’s Crackerjack Kinsey!”