Discussion opener for GRGR(5)

[Tom Stanton]

Paul Mackin wrote:

> Also, WHO the fuck is Jackson? ("Jackson, I don't give a . . .")

When I first read GR I asked my now departed mother about slang like
"Jackson" (she was a WAC in WW2 and got to see a lot of the country 
before she met dad). Anyway, she'd heard it used as a generic address, 
much like we use "man" today, e.g., "Say, Jackson..." It was also used 
in rhyming slang ("What's the action, Jackson?"). She said it wasn't
widely used except by "hipsters," which for her meant anyone who had
not come from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she was raised & I was
eventually born. She read through parts of the book out of curiosity
& pronounced the WW2 details "very accurate, but a bit obsecene."