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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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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!
From Garfunkel and Oates
I thought it was “Tune in, turn on, drop out.”
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.