Discussion opener for GRGR(5)

[Ted Samsel]

If you can find it, check out THE HEPCAT'S LEXICON by DR HEPCAT (aka
Lavada Durst.. he died a couple of years back.. there's a link to
him on one of the Lord Buckley (hipsters, flipsters and finger poppin'
daddies) pages....

& Slim Gailliard (reet vootie reet & copasetic..)

> 
> 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."
> 

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