# Do People Still Say... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225 "2011-08-18T21:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/21 "2011-08-19T15:08:36Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > 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. The only reason I know about this is that there used to be a comic strip called _Lolly_, which included an alcoholic character who regularly hallucinated pink elephants. This was considered funny at the time. (Most of the humor in _Lolly_ involved sexual harassment or alcoholism.) Other than that, I can’t remember the last time I saw a pink elephant reference–until now. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/22 "2011-08-19T15:12:03Z")
“Bricking it” is very common in the UK, same meaning (i.e. scared enough to poo). ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/23 "2011-08-19T15:17:24Z")
I’ve never heard of “packin’ it” and I was born in the '60s. Then again, I spent a good portion of my youth outside the US, so maybe that has something to do with it. My ‘do people still say…’ is the word jamoke, meaning a goofball, a loser, or kind of a joker. Anyone heard of it? Anyone still use it? I haven’t heard it since the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/24 "2011-08-19T15:19:09Z")
> [@flano1](#): > > 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… Are you sure it wasn’t “packing fudge?” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/25 "2011-08-19T15:32:22Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > I’ve never heard of “packin’ it” and I was born in the '60s. I’ve never heard it, and I was in my teens in the late '60s. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/26 "2011-08-19T15:41:05Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Fifty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong The trouble is, Maginot used to use that line! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/27 "2011-08-19T15:50:10Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > My ‘do people still say…’ is the word jamoke, meaning a goofball, a loser, or kind of a joker. Anyone heard of it? Oh my God, yes. I don’t even consider it retro. I hear it a lot. Now, if you were to refer to an authority figure as The Man . . . _that_ would be retro. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/28 "2011-08-19T16:25:51Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The trouble is, Maginot used to use that line! > > :eek: Like the Wehrmacht said: “Eh, I’m over it.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/29 "2011-08-19T17:10:33Z")
keep on truckin man, cause I got no idea what groovy trip yer on ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/30 "2011-08-19T19:32:38Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > My ‘do people still say…’ is the word jamoke, meaning a goofball, a loser, or kind of a joker. Anyone heard of it? Anyone still use it? I haven’t heard it since the '70s. I’ve heard it rarely, may have used it once in my life, though I favour the comparable term “chucklehead”. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/31 "2011-08-19T20:03:17Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > As far as Fred, we’re strumming with Mr. Natural. Where do I press Lke? lol ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/32 "2011-08-19T20:09:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Are you sure it wasn’t “packing fudge?” Different meaning, dude. Or a whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/33 "2011-08-19T20:27:03Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > 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! It’s Vivre la France and Viva Espana - Get with the Program, man! ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/34 "2011-08-19T20:31:04Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > 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. None of them has seen _Dumbo_? If my kids (16-19)) got the reference (and they’re not around to ask right now) - that’s probably where they’d have known it from. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/35 "2011-08-19T20:58:51Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Different meaning, dude. Or a whoosh. _Whoosh!_ ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/36 "2011-08-20T01:21:37Z")
I’m older than dirt and I was born and raised in Texas. I’ve never heard that expression in my life. Weird folds where you come from, man. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/37 "2011-08-20T01:34:44Z")
Oh heavens. I used “packing the shits” the other day when I was going to the dentist. Now I feel ancient. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/38 "2011-08-20T06:06:17Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > “Bricking it” is very common in the UK, same meaning (i.e. scared enough to poo). According to the OP’s clarification, it means the opposite - constipated due to fear. Which is something I’ve never heard of until now. Being scared enough to crap yourself as you said, of course, but… ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225/39 "2011-08-20T14:38:04Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > None of them has seen _Dumbo_? If my kids (16-19)) got the reference (and they’re not around to ask right now) - that’s probably where they’d have known it from. I’m older than your kids - I’m in my 20s (23) - but Dumbo’s where I know it from. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say/593225.md?page=1)