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[@firefighterchick]

At the Jonestown Massacre it was actually the Brand name Flavor-aide, technically not Kool-aid.

[@TB-tr3cm]

I am familiar with all of these. Obviously, they are more American centric, since those were the ones that you did not know. Grandfathered in, cotton pickin', and drinking the Kool-Aid, quite common in the U.S.

[@jeanaprewitt9658]

Grandfathered in is one people younger than myself don't understand as its' practice decreases more and more.

[@aaronakamatt1747]

Every time I hear it I think of that white announcer for OKC getting canceled for saying“he’s out of his cotton picking mind!” When Westbrook went coast to coast and dunked. 😂

[@briankirchhoefer]

I always heard basket case was because mental institutions had patients do craft work to keep their minds engaged. Like basket weaving and ceramics.

[@retrosonghits]

Haha, the word "spaz" in Northern California where I'm from we'd use that word all the time in the 70s. Spaz attack, he's a spaz (like crazy) or just spazzing out. Great times back then.

[@jeanaprewitt9658]

Said Eli Whitney, "Keep your cotton picking' hands off my gin!" You probably have to be of a certain age and from the south to get that one.

[@blakerh]

I have heard all of these phrases. I guess they are used more in the US?

[@neshobanakni]

"Hip, hip, hoorah" was used when turning a capstan to lift an anchor. "Hip, hip," to take a breath, "Hoorah!" to push on the handles. Cotton has little spikes inside the boll. If you're not callused enough, you are reluctant to grab the next boll right away. "Rule of Thumb" refers to finding North. You point your hand at the sun - whichever way your thumb points is North. One hand for morning, the other for evening. "Under the bus" did come from a sports team. I was Grandfathered In to keep a professional certificate when they started to require a certain number of hours of study per year to continue using it. "Eenie, meenie, miny, moe" is counting to four in an ancient Brittanic language.

[@timesthree5757]

Rule of thumb actually refers to the fact that on average a male thumb is about an inch wide.

[@edsmith3461-z7m]

Historically, the width of the thumb, or "thumb's breadth", was used as the equivalent of an inch in the cloth trade; similar expressions existed in Latin and French as well. The thumb has also been used in brewing beer, to gauge the heat of the brewing vat.

[@g0019c]

I heard of all these phrases but the one I use the most is the basket case to describe a bad car or a relative 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@leeyaferguson9019]

My mother drove her "Patty Wagon" , my grandfather said. 😂😂😂😂. Her name Patricia.

[@goatitisful]

Strong dad joke energy

[@danacarter4793]

I still use most of these terms ,I'm that ol Aunt ,who's never gonna be pc ,but fun as H. E . double hockey sticks ,to be around

[@asherosu]

Every one of these has a horrific and depressing origin.

[@HeywoodJahblowme]

Daz used to live in Houston but has never heard cotton picking??? For the man that always has a story I'm sadly disappointed 😂❤😂

[@Justin_Ebright]

We use the same distinction here in the US for buses and coaches. The coaches are of a higher quality. Most schools have one for the sports teams too. There's also private coaches as well.

[@lowprofile513]

Paddy Wagon also meant the cops were Irish as well as the criminals they were transporting.

[@rg20322]

I grew up in Boston in the 70's and I've actually seen a Paddy Wagon -- No Joke - and Boston Cops on horses where they were brutal 😀 I wasn't part of any of the illicit activities but the 70's in Boston was not great, economy was very poor, and crime rampant.

[@edsmith3461-z7m]

I was grandfathered in for the drinking age in NJ when it changed from 19 to 21.

[@dcoxdon]

Interesting you've never heard of "Grandfathered in" as I've always taken that phrase for granted. I remember learning about it as a kid when the US outlawed lead in gasoline. Any cars people owned were "Grandfathered in" to the law so they could continue to use leaded gas until the car died at which time they'd get one that runs unleaded fuel. So many times the phrase is used for an "inbetween" time from when a law is passed until its fully enforced (i.e. the government didn't make everyone who owned older cars get rid of them).

[@DawnA21]

Unless the youth have changed the meaning over here in the US, "spaz" is to "spaz out" or go a little nuts or, in British English "mental". I've also heard the same two words used to mean knocked out, like from exhaustion. But more often than not it's going a little nuts.

[@ellinganderson5434]

Basket case is also used for something that is disassembled.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Classic Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam would say "cotton-pickin" a lot.

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

The Amuco were Malasian, not Indonesian. The phrase "paddy wagon" came from there being a lot of Irish police. This was especially true in New York and Boston. It's not because the wagons were used for rounding up Irish people. The video ignored the fact that some versions of the "eeny meeny miney moe" rhyme said, "catch a n****r by the toe." It was changed to "tiger" to make it socially acceptable. I had always heard the "tiger" version, and was stunned when I heard the other version as an adult. In any case, it's a children's counting-out rhyme, like "one potato, two potato" and "tinker, tailor," and probably has nothing to do with shepherds. Most people's thumbs measure about an inch wide, so they can be used for approximate measurements. The Jonestown Massacre used an off-brand drink mix called "Flavor Aid," but since most people had never heard of it, the phrase became "drink the Kool Aid."

[@rg20322]

Grandfathered in is common in the US and means that you were there prior to the new rules so you have the old rules, while for example if someone buys a new house in the neighborhood has to stick with the new rules by the government typically, if that makes sense. I've used a number of these but many, many years ago as a kid/teenager, where today some would be considered terrible by very uptight people always looking to bring people down.

[@janetschmitt6760]

The BBC Farm Series fascinated me, in part, because of all the word origins that came up in the series. American slang and Brits inventing the language are two different leagues.

[@Zelig2Cents]

At 5:00 into the video: I prefer Bugs Bunny's modified use of the word, such as in his comment, "What a maroon!" Loses no punch off of the meaning of the original word, but also injects some levity, making it easier to laugh off the person or situation rather than getting frustrated by it.

[@moe92870]

9:10 All a heard was "No tickie, no laundry".

[@RealDiehl99]

I am most surprised that you hadn't heard of the "drink the Kool-Aid" saying. It's a very commonly used phrase in the United States. Now even more since the sorry political environment has led people to claim that anyone who doesn't agree with their opinion must have drunk the Kool-Aid of their political party ( while abstaining themselves... naturally).

[@ebashford5334]

Keep in mind that "idiot" and "moron" had less negative stigma back then. "Mental retardation" , a dry technical term, meaning slow or late development came into use later and that term too became stigmatized. Now we use "mentally challenged" but it is already applied as an insult in various ways. Steven Pinker coined the term "euphemism treadmill" to describe the cycle of replacing stigmatized words only for the replacement term itself becoming stigmatized.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Actually there were clinical terms used by the medical community to rate lower levels of intelligence. The lowest was idiot, which was used to describe someone with an IQ of 20 or less. They generally were unable to talk or take care of themselves. Next up was imbecile. They could speak on a very, very basic level, about like a 2 year old. The highest level of sub-par intelligence was moron, they could communicate on a simple level, feed themselves, bathe and get dressed with minimal assistance. In order to be more politically correct, these terms were dropped, and replaced by new ones. They still mean the same thing, just different terminology.

[@okie-kan9240]

Weird History is an awesome channel, I binge watch it. I totally am with you on the term "basket case".

[@TreyM1609]

Hey! The Office Blokes are back!

[@bcbritt777]

Spaz doesnt have the same meaning or offensiveness that it has over in the UK. Our work would be the r word thats offensive vs using spaz.

[@momentary_]

These were all American phrases and words. I was familiar with all of them but I was not surprised that you guys weren't.

[@Mad9977]

wow I'm early for once =) best greetings from Switzerland =)

[@clinthowe7629]

Bill Fitzpatrick? that sounds like an Irish name right there. suppose he reckoned the Irish to have drinking problems?

[@edsmith3461-z7m]

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, Was he?

[@david-1775]

So, if a sports team has to go to another city, where does the coach sit on the coach?

[@uwbadger79]

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he.

[@joshuanova9977]

Yea, maybe spaz isnt quite the word here in the US as it is over there judging by your reaction lol

[@411Tom]

I'm not sure I believe their explanation for the origin of the term "Patty Wagon". Now I could be wrong and the term predates the time when Irish made up a sizable portion of police forces in large northern cities.

[@morewi]

No that's a cope Irish people say

[@gregcable3250]

Drink the Kool-Aid--you are in a cult or acting as though you are, and this is regarding most anything (ahem, Trump supporters).

[@momentary_]

They don't have Kool-Aid in the UK, so it makes sense that it wasn't a saying over there.

[@moonbeam2062]

Just keep in mind when the narrator says a term or phrase that was used back in the day was "uncool", he's saying that in context of today's view of those terms and phrases. I would say, he should be careful about judging the use of terms and phrases long ago because we very probably will find our own use of terms and phrases being judged in the same way by future generations.

[@corralescoyote]

Language is always evolving. “Evolution” itself is a trigger word for some folks. 😉

[@dner75-xh9le]

Have you two heard the the phrase "turn it down"? Your channel is too loud! Just effing with you. Your audio editing is way too quiet. Can barely hear you, kids.

[@danmayberry1185]

US slang is dull to us (🇨🇦). He bolloxed it, the gobshite - what's the origin of that?

[@jettslappy7028]

Video narrated by the great Kevin Spacey.

[@corralescoyote]

As an actor, he was great. He’s not such a good person off screen, though.

[@HeywoodJahblowme]

This channel is starting to "jump the shark." Read between the lines, put 2 & 2 together 😂❤😂 you'll figure it out.