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August 18th, 2008 by RodneyQuite a few years ago, a classmate of mine started working at The Advertiser. I admit that I didn't recognize her at first (sorry Karen), but she recognized me. We got to talking and we were recalling the good ol' days and Karen said she still had my senior picture that I gave her. So one day she brought it to work. As I was reading what I wrote on the back of the picture, I just had to laugh; "Have a righteous summer".
Righteous?
Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't a super religious guy back then, but that's one of the words that we used to say - back in the day.
Which got me thinking of other words or terms we used to use back then, such as:
Far out - "That is so far out!"
Bitchin' - "It was a bitchin' wave"
Geev 'um - "Go for it brah, geev 'um"
Fast - "Us country girls not fast like you town guys" (Thanks for that one, Barb)
Boss - "It'll roll, it'll toss, the hula hoop is really boss"
Neato - "Wow, neato!"
Ice out - "We went ice out LB"
Trip - "Da guy was one trip"
Trippin' - "Nah, they not going steady, they just trippin'"
Bag - "Eh you guys, I going bag. See you tomorrow."
Okay, that should get you folks started. What other words or terms do you recall using back in the day? If you can, use it in a sentence or give the definition. Slangs allowed, but no racial slurs. And keep it clean.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Some Good - term used by Mauians as in "Huuuu, da saimin was some good."
August 18th, 2008 at 7:26 am
bitchen - Whoooa that chick stay bitchen looking....
August 18th, 2008 at 7:37 am
"Chick", young girls, boys are interested in. I don't know if young guys use this term anymore( sorry NKHEA).
August 18th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Rodney,
This is an AWESOME post. I hope people comment and no SHAFT you.
OL
August 18th, 2008 at 7:45 am
But it is impossible to hold with such tranquillity states constituted like that of France. Hence arose those frequent rebellions against the Romans in Spain, France, and Greece, owing to the many principalities there were in these states, of which, as long as the memory of them endured, the Romans always held an insecure possession; but with the power and long continuance of the empire the memory of them passed away, and the Romans then became secure possessors. And when fighting afterwards amongst themselves, each one was able to attach to himself his own parts of the country, according to the authority he had assumed there; and the family of the former lord being exterminated, none other than the Romans were acknowledged.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Bummer = opposite of "boss", junk,. "Dat movie was a bummer."
August 18th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Spock, or spahk - to people watch, to check out the chicks and dudes and spot out the 10's
August 18th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Choking = Plenty; He get choking pencils.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Scab - same as spock
I'm not gonna be able to play with you folks today. I got way too much work to get caught up with. But I know I'm gonna enjoy reading this blog tomorrow. Shucks...You chicks and studs have fun!!
August 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Groovy, cool - same as neato
August 18th, 2008 at 8:04 am
cut line - what you said when somebody crack one fut. i gotta go work too. Laters daddy-o.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Pilut = Drunk as in, "Da buggah pilut."
August 18th, 2008 at 8:11 am
In keeping with Tankobu...
Wiffah - A stink one as in, "eh Nathan, wat you ate? ...dat one wiffah."
August 18th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Hey bro you forgot:
Muffler burn=hickey
kook=new surfer
gremmie=little kid surfers
what like beef=not asking if they want a steak
primo=the best
townies=the guys with the greased back hair
August 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
radical = "ho....seen my off-da-lip....was radical eh?"
August 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Vintage Electric Guitar...what the ___is he taking about?
August 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Sponge: tight wad, not "Sponge Bob!"
Mean: "that car looks mean"
Split: "gotta leave right now"
Go home cook rice: I forgot what dis mean?
August 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
vintage electric guitar= lose money,
August 18th, 2008 at 10:29 am
DOOBIES - what vintage electric guitar had too many of
I'm taking an early lunch
I get the MUNCHIES and so I going GRIND
August 18th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I think vintage electric guitar is talking about the Olympics - on drugs. I just cleaned up the daily spam but I'll leave VEG's post up so we can have some fun.
kini popo - "Right on the kini popo"
Right On! - "Right on, popcorn"
August 18th, 2008 at 10:46 am
ok, so history reference lesson..
the 60's = the really, really old days
the 70's = the really old days
the 80's = the old days
the 90's = recent history
the 00's = a blur
ok, so from the really, really old days..
"for sure" - said after every other frickin' word by old days DJ Dick Wainwright..
ok, and from the old days..
"guarren's ball-bearin's"..
good fun..
uj
August 18th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Good stuff uncle jimmy! but holy macaroni, dat means the 50's is like, ancient history - das me. You folks remember Kini Popo, da local TV personality with his side kick Bill Anderson ( to become Adam West, das right, da TV Batman).
Fo' real?! (and you gotta say'em loud and with expression) = no kidding?!
Tink fast = when somebody throw someting at you: "Tankobu, tink fast!" "ouch" (tankobu)
August 18th, 2008 at 11:51 am
1. oshare (oh-shah-de) - "she so oshare, all she do is shop Liberty House"
2. tantaran - make like you're IT and not be humble about it
3. search take - I can take'em if I find'em
"eh you get quarta?" says the big person of polynesian descent
"no" says the small person of asian descent
"search take" says the big person of polynesian descent
"nah, I get" says the small person of asian descent
August 18th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
tankobu.. yes, da 50's are pre-consciousness..
kay den, i get one or three from da old days for you..
ref:
1) what local guy sold used cars on Saturday movie TV?
2) how did he refer to large automobiles of the Cadillac brand?
3) what length of warranty did he offer?
on another note, what song did they play over 'n over when losing satellite TV coverage?
aloha, uj
August 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
@uncle jimmy and gmanoa - welcome to Midlife Crisis aka MLC and thank's for posting.
Search take - at first I didn't understand it, but after I read the dialog ->
That reminds me:
"Rough take" - When you like give something away to anybody, you just throw it on the ground and yell "rough take" and let the others dive for it.
"Not it" - When starting a game and you don't want to be the person to have to tag or find someone.
I think know the guy's name who sold used cars and the song that played when the TV lost it's signal.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
k, den, rod, geev um..
but what about the caddy and the warranty???
uj
August 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Eh, uncle jimmy, my stomach sore from laughing.
but please, no use big words!
I tink da car salesman is Lippy Espinda. Don't know 2 and 3.
Satellite tv, what's dat? nah, nah, nah. Da song is "Classical fut, I mean Gas" by mason williams.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
tanks, eh Tankobu.. can hear 'em now...
pum pum pum.. pum pum pum.. pum pum pum..
but really need rain outside and a blank TV screen to really catch 'em..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9nl3T31wI&feature=related
for those of you that missed it first time around..
So, Lippy Espinda used to call caddies, "papolo wagons". "we get this nice papolo wagon for you today, a caddy coupe da ville.."
oh, and the warrany, Lippy would say:
"warranty? we give you one warranty! while you can see me waving bye to you, da warranty still good.. wen you know see me wavin' no moah, da warranty pau!!
hahahahahahaha.. can still see da buggah's smilin' face.. ho, da classic..
aloha, uj
August 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Papolo? thought was popolo but hey, same-same. I all pupule anyway.
Tankobu...I like the "tink fast" one. Ha ha. Yeah, we used to call da guy and as he turning around you throw something at him but you warn em...tink fast...good one, braddah.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
oh, I said same-same but could also say, "same smell."
August 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Bumbutcha...az what we called the big marbles or anything humongous.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Sorry, just got back from lunch, but Tankobu get 'um.
Same smell - never heard that one in a loooong time.
Melvin's / Melveena's - what the townies at Punahou are called.
Char's / Charlene's - what the townie girls are called. I thought this was also a Punahou term but Melissa used it and she's a McKinley girl. Is that right Melissa? Describe a Char for us
August 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
and den from my pop's days...go fo broke.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
wow, you guys are rippeen'..
tink maybe went out with a char one time..
eh, what's the tag for a girl who pops her gum while you're.. well, you know..
oh, i have one for you.. key den, UH grads..
who was Velma Ko?
uj
August 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
OK so it's not just "righteous"--it's all in how you pronounce it, a soft, lingering hiss: Righ-cheeeeeeeeehhhsssss brahhhh.....
Rod asked me to stop by and give my 2 cents, so here's some terminology I learned back in 1978 from a guy at Roosevelt:
Charlene or "Char"=you call a girl this if she's kind of oshare, townie looking, dress nice, high maintenance. You know, the girls with the Farrah-kine hair.
Their counterparts are guys called Dexters.
Also when expressing disgust, you'd say, "Ahz!" Which I think was short for "Alluhz, balluhz." Which I have no idea what the origin was.
To add to the "right on popcorn" is the "How you, beef stew?" and "no worry, beef curry!"
August 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Ho wow, some of what you folks call old, I still use.
Since I put um on Queenie's blog, I put here too:
"XYZ" = eXamine Your Zipper
few more I heard:
"off tackle" = not all there.
"Brah, why dat guy eating the gum from undah da table? Shmall kine off-tackle!"
"Salt um up" = Save for later
August 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
@Melissa - thanks for the explanation. I guess Char's and Dexter's (too funny. Never hear that before) are the equivalent to Melvin's and Melveena's.
@BF - the "off tackle" guy, he must be chewing ABC gum (Already Been Chewed)
Never heard the last 2.
How about:
Fox - sexy looking girl
Dog - ugly looking girl
Rippa - what girls call cute surfer guys
August 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Wow Lau Lau - for like; why you when do dat fo, Wow Lau Lau
We neva used to say Dexters was Pointdexter (don't remember as usual how to spell the name, from old cartoon)
August 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
OK one more, the opposite of "Ahz." When you see something really good, it's like, "Ho, choice, brah!" or just "choice!" Meaning, that's a top-choice thing, I guess.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
And like "choice", there was "cherry" - usually referring to cars. "Ho, da '69 Camaro was cherry!".
August 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
shaft = we go giv-um da shaft = leave um behind
August 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Shoots = OK, is this considered local? Sometimes so commonplace not sure if slang words are local or from mainland...shoots, I live on this rock too long.
Ahh, uj, I used to see that Velma Ko written in every bathroom at UH back in the late 60's-early 70's...not sure if was one urban myth or fo real...never did call that number for a good time.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
fuzz = police = the fuzz stay coming
August 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Good one, NKHEA
Who remembers:
Here comes the fuzz,
Here comes the fuzz,
Here comes the fuzz...
August 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Woo NKHEA, that reminds me of "Bubble Gum Machine" Hilo had private police cars with the light on top. Look like bubble gum machine.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
How about "buss em out" = share what in the package/box. "Hey QPP, Buss out da cake."
August 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Scuff: to fall or lose ones balance and almost fall. "Ho, da floor was wet and I almost wen scuff" or "took a scuff" also to eat, similar to scarf. "I hungry, we go scuff"
On Maui I heard it was "take a hang"
August 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Stoked - another surfing term "The waves was so glassy, I was stoked!"
Head Shop - a place where they sold hippie stuff and drug paraphernalia.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Uji - A guy who is well like how the word sounds.....Uji
Badosh cake - Dobash cake
stink bomb -fart
Ala's - Ala Moana
Aiyah - Oops
August 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Pinch a loaf / Drop a stool - going #2
Remember Ralph & Herbie from C&C Big Bambu album?
Herbie: Come on Ralph, let's go find Fifi. I heard that she's in heat.
Ralph: Okay, but wait, I have to drop a stool.
Herbie: Drop a stool?
Ralph: Yeah, you know, pinch a loaf.
Herbie: Pinch a loaf?
Ralph: I have to make a doo-doo, alright?
Herbie: oh.. well, um... hurry up.
Ralph: Herrrrrrrr, herrrrrrr, herrrrrrr
Herbie: Op, here it comes. Wow Ralph, it's gonna be a big one!
Ralph: Wow, did I do that?
August 18th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Ahh, uj, I used to see that Velma Ko written in every bathroom at UH back in the late 60’s-early 70’s…not sure if was one urban myth or fo real…never did call that number for a good time.
aloha hemajang..
yah, poor velma mus' have pissed off the wrong guy, cuz he wrote her name and numbah on every freakin' bathroom door on campus..
velma ko does dis, velma ko does dat, call da numbah,,
oh, and "shoots ka-doots" is definitely local, brah..
mahalo for remembering..
aloha, uj
August 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
toke = to take a hit or smoke pakalolo (Puna Butter, Kona Gold or Maui Wowie)
"eh....meet you behind da gym.....we go toke one joint"
← try look....da buggah stay stoned.
this goes with CW's scuff/scarf cause da "munchies" start to set in.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Rodney - had the corn inside for texture to yeah....
August 18th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
knockers = whoa she get some big knockers yeah
August 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I nevah know this was a Maui term.
"Whoa! I almost wen hang! Who nevah clean dis up!"
"Yeah, brah, i hit dat wet spot and I wen huli maka flip! I almost puka my head!"
"Uji" hehehe I recall writing about that word I think on Queenie's blog. Something about guys being called to get rid of pests. I had to be uji guy repellent a few times. "Eh, come sit wit' me! That uji guy stay scamming me out, and I feel all, all, eeeeew! C'mon! Please? I buy you a beer! Hurry up! He walking this way!"
August 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
cut - goodbeer stay all cut, he wen stay to much good beer....
August 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Velma Ko - there's a name from the past! I neva hear that name since UH days. The phone number must have been HPD.
and dat Lippy Espinda warranty -- I don't remember that one but it's so damn funny! I'm like you UJ, I can imagine Lippy's face and saying that.
So, Uncle Jimmy, what about the gum popping girl? Inquiring minds want to know.
Crash =
1) go sleep - After lunch, at work, I like crash.
2) to go party without invitation - Eh, we go crash Shauna's manju party.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
@ hemajang (#42): speaking of shoots, did you guys see the LLWS game yesterday? towards the end when the coaches son came in to "close" the game (ending up throwing 20 pitches then got pulled because if he threw one more, he wouldn't be eligible [to pitch] for the next game) and they were commenting on how his nickname was (and this is how the graphic came up) "chutes." when one of the tv commentators was explaining the meaning behind the nickname, he actually meant, "shoots." apparently, he got busted once after practice for climbing up the dugout so his dad told him to do more push ups, he replied by saying, "shoots" so his nickname became "shoots." the tv guy said something along the lines of, "i guess back home that's slang for okay or something."
one of the slang words i just learned, don't know if it's from back in the day, but "teef" as in:
that guy went teef (thief - steal) Shauna's last manju.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
oh no, who went teef my last manju?!?
wow, this has all been educational. not sure what everyone can "learn" on my blog. we keep talking about pee pee and futs for some ODD reason...
August 18th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I have another definition of "cut" = big body ripped as in "Huuu, look at da guy, he all cut, making big body for da chicks."
Which brings up: Big Body = making tarantaran with his muscles (see above)
August 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Shauna reminded me of:
Manju = stingy, as in "Buggah he manju, he no like lend his sistah one quatha."
August 18th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
J.P.K. - funny story, wassamatta with those haoles, we gotta give em one edumacation on how fo talk.
Speaking of Lippy Espinda:
Lip = talking smat/stupid as in "ho, da lady, she give me lip about parking in her space. I was going karang her face."
Karang = smash em.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
patot = one small kid, as in "Watch out for the small patots wen you go drive in da garage." Not sure that came from...one filipino word o wat?
August 18th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Stick finger = Da Bird, as in "Wendell wen stick fingah to his teacha, and got suspended fo one week, stoopid da guy."
August 18th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Does anyone remember "faze" or "phaze" like, "I just going hangout at the benches and faze out" -daydream or stare with a blank look on your face.
It was probably from the Star Trek weapon, but maybe didn't become popular until the Star War movies came out in the late 70's.
Manju=jewfut. Even my mom said that. I always thought it meant "Jews" were considered tight, but since we pakes also had that label, as well as "short arm, deep pockets", I was glad to share that with another ethnic group.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Pee-u (no fo how spell dis) = To put out or expire, as in "I going pee-u da fire" or "Eddie boy! go pee-u da light."
I going pee-u pretty soon, almost bedtime. Latahs.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Uji=scebbei-maybe I am spelling it wrong, but if you say it out loud....
Spock<=Scab. I thought that spocking "chicks" was a little more casual than scabbing chicks.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
duck soup = easy, no problem
wop your jaws = sorta same smell as stick fingah
take a burn = slightly milder version of wop your jaws
shoyu burner asked about:
go home cook rice = an insult sorta like "go home to your mommy" but also heard it used like "I gotta go home and do something boring". see also "go home wash clothes"
August 18th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Sheez...... I still use and hear some of these! bahaha... but what a lesson I got today with all dis kine slang words! hehe...
August 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Welcome Chang I Am to MLC.
I thought maybe Go Home Cook Rice was a Kailua thing. Not too many orientals back then so that term used to be said to us. Unless you from Kailua
No Can Handle - means cannot handle (liquor, workout, big surf, etc.). But this term is still used today. My daughter tells me, "Eh dad, you Randal? - Randal, no can handle".
@Shoyu Burner - now I going come back with "Eh girl, you Chad?"
August 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
small kid time, when you see somebody who just cut hair, you go up to them, put your thumb against his sideburn and give'um a blast upside da head and you tell'um - "Baptize!"
Eh, I grew up weird, no can help.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Teef? - Dat da stuff in your mowf, right?
I never hear hagemoge long time.
"Dat buggah no brush his teef, so stay all hagemoge now!"
@hemajang - I only heard the word "karang" when used with "your alas."
Itai!
August 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
A few more:
Abalone - the cheeks that hanging out from hot pants "Yuk, could see all da abalone hanging out".
"Whistle or die" - a game guys used to play.
"Half Ass" - sloppy job.
"Bondo" - make up - "Ho, da girl use plenty bondo on her face"
"bus' up" - drunk - "by da end of the night, we was all bus' up"
"wasted" - see pilut
"ma'ke die dead" - dead.
"stub toe" - when play foosball and when the hitter gets the ball stuck between the player and the table.
"five man blast" - another foosball term meaning hitting hard with the 5 man handle "eh, no five man blast".
August 18th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
hemajang - was peel da fiya eh not pee-u, butt could b wrong
peeling = the guy was peeling rubba man = burn rubber with the car (not to be mistaken with peeling like in; feeling sorry fo u...aiiiisooooos I not peeling to good today )
August 18th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
"How you figga?" - What do you mean?
August 18th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I thought it was "pio" the light, when you turn um off?
Sometimes some peeps say "hemo da light" too.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
wow..
this was so freakin' hilarious..
laughed so many times reading through these.. can no moah see..
if you're bringin' out wop ya jaws.. den, RAZZ IT and WOP IT...
don't really have a name for da chick who pops her gum while you're at it, but tought you guys might since you get every udda one..
also da name for da chick who's so drunk, she falls asleep while you're whalin' on her..
also da name for da guy who keeps at it anyway..
ahahahahahahah...
uj
August 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
BFish = think you right bout "pio" you one smart bugga eh
Good night Rodney and all you MLC's
August 18th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Futless - anxious or frustrated "Da guy stay all futless"
Submarine races - duh.
Poke squid - see Submarine races.
Throw blows - fight.
Meat Market - the disco
August 18th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Staffer, staffa = awesome babe. Dat Jill, she's one staffa
In reference to cars; Sample or Smoke 'em = To burn rubber
Cherry, multiple meanings. Need I say more?
August 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
this is very entertaining, educational and brings back alot of memories on being a kid again! words phrases I haven't used in years and when I tell'em to my kids they look at me like I'm weird. how 'about these - I won't put the definitions because if you don't know, you don't know:
sham battle
chase master
side pain
suck pipe
"eh, no drink too much wata cuz you goin get side pain when we play sham battle or chase master, and no suck pipe!"
August 18th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
kakio legs - person dat get choke scars on their legs.
daikon legs - cankles
buta kau kau man - pig farmer that picks up your slop.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Ha! Suck pipe! You know what is gross, was always the kid with the hagemoge teet, kakio legs, ukus, and just LEPO, was the one dat suck pipe. Da buggah dat eat their hanakuso.
Even Pigpen from Peanuts would spock that buggah, and go "Damn! Dey DIRTY! Eeeew! No touch me!"
August 19th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Tankobu on #71, we did the same with the thumb burn on the side of head. We also did the baptize thing when somebody had new shoes.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Puka head = when you hit your head and get tankobu or cut.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Luau feet - beeg fat feet from going barefoot or only wear slippahs all your life.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Good clothes - local phrase when you wearing dress up clothes, as in "Honey, wea good clothes cuz we going visit my muddah."
August 19th, 2008 at 7:12 am
haolified = when one local guy try talk like one mainland haole or when local guy becomes assimilated with mainland culture and ack all high mucka muck.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Cool head main ting = be calm, no fight.
Plenty good words I never hear long time - duck soup, futless, suck pipe, daikon legs, luau feet - too funny!
August 19th, 2008 at 9:01 am
jus' glad long time get no ukus..
uj
August 19th, 2008 at 9:34 am
hard head - stubborn (don't remember if there is a pidgin phrase for it)
hana okolele or something to that affect
August 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Crammany Sakes and
Oh For Crying Out Loud - Don't know what they mean, just that my dad used to say that to me all the time - just before getting the slipper.
The Belt - Alternative to getting spanked with The Slipper
The Hanger - What my mom used to spank with.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I may be wrong but I haven't seen:
dig=let's leave, like in "let's dig already"
J_p slaps= Kailua term in da 60's for the townie guys cause of the slippa's
greasers= see above
olopop=same as popolo
And speaking of other's, how about Capt. Honolulu & Sgt. Sacto, bet you guys neva listen to the "Lone Ranger" on the radio, if you did man you one old fart.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
gulla-gullas = mucus in da throat but usually the stuff you spit out after clearing throat as in "Hooo gross your gulla-gullahs, all fat and yellow!"
August 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
called zories, too.. only pronounce 'em zaw-dies..
eh, you lookin' for old fut kailua side refs?
remembah da pinky's broiler fire?
not da recent ones, da original one.. ca. 1951-52..
ooh da buggah wen lit up da night sky..
part 2.. do you remembah da keiki doc, dr. chung?..
uj
August 19th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
eh, Rod's Big Bro, as a certified old fart, I do recall listening to radio shows in the 50's. We one radio in our kitchen table and use to sit on the wooden bench and fo some reason I had a habit of cleaning out the tiny plastic grids on the radio while listening...was O-C but didn't know it.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Wow, still going! Good fun all you posters! I never saw the baseball terms yet.
1st base - hold hands
2nd base - kiss
3rd base -
4th base -
August 19th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
oi! 3rd base was supposed to be
August 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
@uj - Dr. Chung? Was his office at the corner of Kailua Road and Hoolai St.? We lived about a mile away and I remember my older brothers telling me this story about the DeRamos brothers. Both of them were dropped off at the doctors office. When W, the older brother came out of the examining room, the younger brother, G ask if he got a shot. After W nodded his head yes, G flew out the door and ran all the way home.
I think it was Dr. Chung too that gave one of my brothers the wrong shot.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Rod,
you got it wrong about Chad, it goes like dis;
Eh, chad was looking for you!
reply: Chad who?
"Chad uuuppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
rod: has to be da same doc chung.. must have been old by den.. half of kailua owes their life to him.. kept me alive..
goodbeer.. crackin' up at baseball refs.. da bases wen change over time..
k-den two kine gasoline...
regular and ethyl = "regulah an' etyl"..
"fill 'em up wit' etyl, yeah?"
uj
August 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Capt. Honolulu!!! Do you remember how to do the goggles with your hands. Oh Yeah! I still can... ouch my arms sore now.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Terms from the 70's:
Keep on Truckin'
Lets' Boogie
*I had those 2 black light posters. The Keep On Truckin' was a line of these cartoon characters leaning back and taking a big step forward. Something like this: http://www.postergeist.com/posters/scans/truckin.jpg
The Let's Boogie was a cartoon guy standing by a lamp post dressed up like a pimp swinging a watch on a chain.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
more 70's..
"eh, no bogart da reefah"..
uj
August 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Keep on Truckin' by Robert Crumb was iconic, man. I couldn't get enough of the SF psychedelic rock posters and artwork during that period in the late 60's.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out = Timothy Leary's phrase during the hippie generation.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
hemajang
check out what they're going for now.. big bucks for da classics..
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/se/a-seourlname/BG/r32p12s1.html
talk about the good ol' days of music..
anyone remembah..
having to sit through herman's hermits to see the who at the HIC in '67..
led zeppelin at the civic '69.. creedence in '70..
jimi hendrix at the shell in '69..
zz top blowing the rolling stones off da stage at the HIC in '73?
hoo, reachin' waaay back..
August 19th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
i stay late again... sorry, if anyone mentioned these already... get too much, no can rememba!
scarf - eat fast, eat all - as in "I wen scarf down one whole plate lunch, but I still stay hungry!"
no backs - you cannot give back whatever they gave you (something nobody wants), or, in the game of "tag," you can't tag them back - as in "You IT, no backs!"
likins - punch you out, fight; often used with "crack" (punch 'em good) - as in "Eh, brah... you like likins? I going crack you!" (Can you tell I went to Central?)
and my mom used to say "you go stay come, i go stay go." HUH?
anklebiters - i remember "hanakokolele!" as the term that was used when someone saw you do something you weren't supposed to be doing. like the local, keiki version of "busted!"
good fun, you guys!
August 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
boros or boro boro = junk clothes, tattered or worn
"eh....going be pilau....so wear your boros"
"ho....my bbd's stay all boro boro awready"
August 19th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
keep on chooglin...don't stop now, keep on chooglin.
uj, the only ones I saw that you listed were CCR and the Rolling Stones but I did see Jefferson Airplane and Lightning Hopkins at the Civic. Van Morrison-Them, Beach Boys, Animals and Batdorf & Rodney at the Shell. Paul Revere & the Raiders, Young Rascals and the Byrds at the Exhibition Hall. Quicksilver Messenger Service, Leo Kotke, John Hammond and Grateful Dead at the Andrews Amphitheater. Sonny Terry at UH. Sonny & Cher, Santana, Iron Butterfly, America, Chuck Berry, James Taylor and John Mayal at the HIC and Jeff Beck at the Concert Hall. Don't have good memory on year and could have seen more but memory is weak lately...went to a lot of concerts in the 60's -70's. If I had to pick one concert that is the most memorable and rocking was CCR...keep on chooglin.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
For CCR fans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzl7_OpVLA&feature=related
August 19th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Bafe: I gotta go "bafe"(bathe) cause I all sticky!
Nobody said the classics: Bumbai and Badda you.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
bolohead dinky donk - a bald person.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Cho cho lips - thick lips "Ho, da girl get some cho cho's"
Suck face - making out
Lock jaw - what happens when you step on a rusty nail and don't tell anyone - "Eh boy, wassamatta you, you like get lock jaw?"
Boy-san - What my mom used to call me - "Eh, boy-san"
Pig - The cops. They made an acronym out of it
Pride
Integrity
Guts
Grunts - marines
Filum - film
August 19th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Re: go home cook rice
I heard it growing up in Kaimuki. Don't know where it started but wasn't just orientals using it.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Other classics:
broke da mouth.
chicken skin.
cho cho lips (already mentioned by Rodney in a previous blog as in thick lips but my friend tell me it one bad borinque word)
Duck ass = hair style with long side hair combed back so both sides come to back and form one crease...in the 50's.
She-cut = another haircut I got in youth, not sure exactly but was long on top, short sides with sideburns...Tino from Waipahu was my regular barber, was about 10-11 but used to sneak peek at the naked lady calendars on the wall.
Goose-neck bike = bikes with long neck and we also raised the seat so you sitting kinda high and hands about neck high on handle bars.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
another haircut was "razor cut" where after buzzing and clipping hair would finish off by straight edge razor trim the side burns, over the ear and back. Razor looked sharp and scary but nevah had cut once.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
@hemajang - speaking of bicycles, "sissy bar". The bar at the back of the banana seat, but the "sissy bar" extended about 3 feet above the seat.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
and den, Tino would splash some of this mysterious tonic along the edge where he razor cut...used to sting a little but smelled strong and manly.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Screwed - when you're in a jam. "Dam, I'm screwed now".
Screw you - a nicer way to say F you.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
cosmetic stick = hair paste, a white solid but soft stick, that you rub on your hair to keep it slicked down. Only thing your comb would be loaded with that stuff and had to constantly wipe off.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
more hair terms:
rat bite = dings in your hair cut
ehu hair = blondish color surfa hair and not the orange Sun In color.
feathered hair = layered style hair cut.
camel backs = receding hairline. looks like the 2 humps on a camel.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Speaking of F you. We spelled it differently back then, it was FO_ _. O instead of U. I remember in basic training, our unit was half local and the other half were NG's from Chicago. The were good fun guys but this one big Italian guy would say "you pineapples can't even spell f_ _ k!"
August 19th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Rod:
This was really a great topic that brought back a lot of memories of people and friends who used those words, or fit them with their actions, or whom may have met the definitions...to me, somehow, more so than any of your previous topics-but no get bighead, I haven't read them all.
But like some of those blogs, of people and times I haven't thought of in years. Thanks for the laughs!
And here I thought I went thru my "MLC" when I turned 40!
Lates!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
@ancntbwlr - Thanks! But remember, 50 is the new 40.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:05 am
uj - I know, most people say "home run" but kid time we used to say 4th base
August 20th, 2008 at 8:55 am
tie-tie - when the game is tied up. A local word. When the score is tie-tie at 7, we said "the score is coca-cola (coke cola)" - instead of 7 up. Get it? Tied up at 7... 7 up... coca cola.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I never hear dat "Coca-cola" one before. So what, when tied at 10, "Upper 10?"
Oh I remember a word I taught a Hawaiian guy - Manuahi.
He had no idea what I was talking about. Born and raised here too. So I told him, I understood it to mean "bonus or extra."
"Eh, try look, I got 4 pieces chicken in da 3 piece meal."
"Oh wow, manuahi! You scoah!"
He looked it up in the Hawaiian dictionary even - and there it was.
it can also have a negative connotation too - loose or easy, like a dry land kumu. I never heard it used that way before though....
August 20th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Upper 10 - ha, ha.
Dry Land Kumu - loose or easy (just learned that one today)
Monkey Play - Playing football with anything goes rules
August 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
lunch box and b-lot - I'll leave it up to your interpretation ....
spaz - spastic
baka - idiot
August 21st, 2008 at 9:30 am
goodbeer - fourt' base is too frickin' hysterical.. as in "i nevah wen get to fourt' base"..
hemajang - you saw way more shows den me..
da only two you nevah mention wuz lee michaels (playin' barefoot) wit frosty da drummah at hic..
and da boogie guys, canned heat..
"das called gettin' ready for da boogie"..
geev um, uj
August 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
how about...
"Eh, like beef?" - means, do you want to fight?
(shoots, no can rememba what else I was going write...
)
August 21st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Buckaloose - when we flew kites in strong winds and the kite string broke, we'd say "Aw, the kite wen' buckaloose!"
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 am
gussa-gussa = LeslieK. KIDDING!
gussa-gussa = The kind of kid the keeps talking and asking questions - even asking another question when you're not done answering the first one. Always talking - even if no one is listening. Come to think of it - maybe we did have ADHD back in our day - we just called it by a different name: Gussa-gussa.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
u get the book
u just grease em
no be cheisty, buy ur own
what a doofus
kimmey you're such a dork
wow, u just give me the shaft
he's one broke d**k
allison had palo
i stay all faded
you're clipped
kamakazi u drive
December 12th, 2008 at 10:51 am
suk suk - to fornicate
Example:
December 12th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hold Cho-ching - When a 3rd person tags along on a date.
In the old days, as the couple walked, a person used to follow behind holding a lantern at the end of a long stick over the couples head.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Drag - multiple meanings:
1. Cross dressing/dresser - Dat's one guy dressed in drag!
2. To race a car - What, brah? Like drag?
3. To puff on a cigarette - Eh, I like drag.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
strawberries-cuts, like when you fall off your bike, you get straberries on yo knees.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
remember the kamaboko slippah? 1 inch thick rainbow colored slippers. Get your name burned on the side from the magnifying glass.
December 12th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Rod here's a couple:
Score: when you get the phone number and/or date and/or suk-suk with the chick everyone else trying to "hit on".
Hit On: Trying to impress the girl and if you do good at the "hit on" you then proceed to the "Score"
Cheap Sale: When you and someone else has the same shirt on "whoa da cheap sale, da kine get one shirt like dat on too".
Slack: to lighten up "okay you guy's give me some slack"
Hey, what about some sayings like:
"hey, let's make like a bamboo and split"
"hey, let's make like da mother duck and get da flock out of hea"
"hely, let's make like da hockey player and get da puck out of hea"
December 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
"Hey, let's make like a tree and leave"
December 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
What is fornicate?
December 13th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Opso,
I remember you and your classmates had coined some pretty creative slangs back in high school. I even remember some of it being adopted by the city kids.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
we go digout = let's leave
December 14th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
we go bag=let's leave
December 14th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
kakaroach=take Eh, who wen kakaroach my bea?!