As I understand it, the late*, great Flying Squid founded this sub and posted many fine gems like this, captioned skillfully. You can see a lot of these if you go to the community page and sort by “old.” Indeed, that’s how I found this one. These ‘golden-age’ and ‘silver-age’ comics panels almost write themselves, being from such a different age and having such different sensibilities.
Also, these panels generally do a great job of reinforcing the importance of rule #3, i.e. “comics should be unintentionally funny.” I kind of wish today’s posters would be a little more heedful of that guideline, as Flying Squid went out of their way to make it a priority. Unfortunately, the listed mods have all been asleep for awhile.
Anyway, I have loads more of these, and am willing to keep posting for a while if this community remains viable. Thank you for everything, FS.
* Haha, just in terms of him suddenly disappearing from the Fediverse. I certainly hope he (or they) are okay in Real Life.
‘Hot’ used to mean horny, and ‘hooking up’ once meant to just meet up. Phrases change all the time, innuendo aways evolves.
You got that right, mon ami. Language is indeed constantly evolving.
For example-- the meaning of “nerd” back in the day meant almost an entirely different thing than it does today, in more of an ‘otaku’ culture.
Ah yes, I too remember when ‘nerd’, ‘geek’ meant something more than simply being really interested in something and having a hard time not talking about it.
Well put.
The irony being that the ‘interest’ in question was often something already vastly popular with kids / teenagers / etc, often Japan-based. It became rarely about the original subjects, which were more along the lines of math, science and specialised literature, etc.
Overall, I really don’t have a problem with the rapid shift in cultural meaning, but I admit, it took me by surprise, and seemed really weird, as a kid of the early-80’s. Oh well. Shizzle happens…
Did the something more for geeks involve bitting?
At one time, yes. Chickens and other smaller animals like snakes used to lose their heads this way.