Over in MPSIMS they are having a shit hot time with a Who Gives a Shit thread and I got to wondering if anyone still says, " I was packin’ it, man!"; or similar statements about packing shit when in a state of duress. Very common back in the 60s and 70s.
Let’s not confine this to one expression.
What else does anyone still say?
I have no idea what you’re talking about, so I’m going to go with no.
Me too, and I was alive then.
Now you’re on the trolley!
Fifty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong
As far as Fred, we’re strumming with Mr. Natural.
So, you didn’t get enough fiber in the 60’s? If I were “packin’ shit”, I’d stop telling people about it, and get some All-Bran.
Got a cite for “very common”?
Now, I think it’s more common that people still say “Give me five bees for a quarter”… like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
No, seriously. I have no idea what “packing shit” means in the context of the OP.
In Viva la France
They’re full of romance
You’ll find policemen with embroidery on their pants!
Say, *now *you’re cookin’ with gas, ya big ol’ tango shiek!
Onions, belt, nickels, bees, etc…
Joe
19dickety2
Why can’t we see more old theater?
I caught this at a junior college way back … well, way back when I was in college.
Never did see the film.
I wrote a screenplay in which the noise the drunk guy heard in the woods was “probably just a pink elephant”–and not one of the twenty-ish stars had any idea what that meant. Hard to believe an image that pervasive would vanish away in just a few decades.
Oh, man, thanks so much for reminding me how young I am.
(Seriously, what does ‘‘packin’ it’’ mean? Like packing heat?)
well it means that you are so terrified that instead of shitting yourself you are packing it away for later.
no cite.
must have been just my friends.
sigh
Reminds me of a George Carlin bit:
It’s funnier in context.
“I was packin’ it” was pretty common in the 70s when I was at school. More lately I’ve heard “bricking it” which is short for shitting bricks.
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So it means you’re constipated? Never heard it back in the 70’s, sorry.
I’ve heard of “packing heat”, which means you’re armed. I’ve heard of “packing it in”, which means you’re giving up. I’ve never heard of just “packing it”.