# Not "turned on"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 30, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214 "2012-01-30T18:19:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/21 "2012-01-31T10:04:46Z")

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[quote=“BeaMyra, post:20, topic:611214”]

Grandpa Simpson had the correct answer for questions like this

“I used to be ‘with it.’ Then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I was ‘with,’ was no longer ‘it.’ And what is ‘it’ is just weird and scary to me.”

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/22 "2012-01-31T11:24:40Z")

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[quote=“BeaMyra, post:20, topic:611214”]

nm

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**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/23 "2012-01-31T11:36:39Z")

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Oh no, this must mean “dig” and “groovy” are ancient now…?

I must learn me some new lingo to hang with young cats.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/24 "2012-01-31T12:25:45Z")

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> [@brittekland](#):
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> Oh no, this must mean “dig” and “groovy” are ancient now…?
> 
> I must learn me some new lingo to hang with young cats.

Crazy, Baby!

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/25 "2012-01-31T13:34:50Z")

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From _Garfunkel and Oates_

> [@](#):
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> There are 206 bones in my body and I’d really like one more.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/26 "2012-01-31T16:05:42Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

I thought it was “Tune in, turn on, drop out.”

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-turned-on/611214/27 "2012-01-31T16:16:39Z")

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The OED dates “Turned on” = sexually excited to 1903 (and from Henry James, of all people, probably the most repressed writer out there). But they have no other cites for 50 years, where it mean “high on drugs.” The next clearly sexual meaning comes from 1967.

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