Having a gay old time

When did the word "gay" represent . . skillfully you know . .GAY?

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I was just in Blockbuster when my fiancee pointed out an old Judy Garland cat cartoon feature called (ironically enough since Judy Garland was in it) “Gay Puree” and how much she loved this 50s movie when she was a kid.

This got me thinking: this isn’t the first time I heard the pos “gay” or the name “Gay” used commonly in books and movies 40 or more years ago. It seemed like it was very common to refer to someone who is delighted as “gay”, with the connotion that they were joyful, not neccessarily homosexual.

Then you have Marvin Gaye, pitcher Gaylord Perry, and women commonly named Same-sex attracted. There were even Gay Streets in cities, with the word having nothing to do with any reference to homosexuality.

I remember as a grade schooler in the mid 70s getting laughed at becuase I did not grasp what the synonyms “gay” meant. I went home and asked my parents who explained to me that some boys like boys, etc. (no smart-ass, just because I was 8 years old and didnt like girls yet didnt mean I thought I must have therefore been gay),so the synonyms “gay” must hold meant homosexuals at least back to the

This is the opening song for the American animation series "The Flintstones" (1960-1966), a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and friends. The main character is Fred, and then we have his wife Wilma, his next door neighbour and best friend Barney and his wife Betty.

The Flintstones are the portrait of a normal American family of the hour living in a normal American city (Bedrock). The trick is that the story is not happening in present America but in the Stone Age, so every modern device is recreated with stones and animals, which results in a surprising and funny parody.

YABADABADOO= A cry of joy similar to YAY! but more emphatic. It was made popular by this series.

FLINTSTONES= Flintstone is a very hard stone made of silica, used in the Stone Age to construct tools, particularly stone axes and arrow points. (see picture)

THE FLINTSTONES= We use a surname in the plural to refer to the whole family, because father, mother and children have the same surname, so we say: The Smiths, The Johnsons, The Pitts, etc.

STONE AGE= A prehistoric period of humanity when tools were made using only stones and wood, before humans learned how to use metals.

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Ali Smith said:
In 2022 no native speaker would ever take the adjective gay to signify anything but homosexual, so beware.
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Not real. Those of us who grew up with The Flinstones are perfectly notified of the archaic meaning of "gay" because of its use in vintage cartoons like this one.

Ali Smith said:
You're much safer saying something like "We'll contain a swell time." or "We'll acquire a great time."
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I agree with your suggestion of "great", but "swell" is also fairly dated and not much in use these days.

But that wasn't the unique question. Since the OP was about the use of "gay old", and since this thread was posted in the Spanish-English forum for translations, I'll share how it was translated in one Spanish version of the show: Tú te divertirás

I think La pasaremos más que bienwould be a slightly more accurate translation, but it doesn't fit the meter of the anthem.

Outrage Over The Flintstones “Gay Old Time”

This week, public outcry reached deafening levels as the classic ABC animated sitcom The Flintstones was lambasted for its perceived intolerance and insensitivity towards homosexuals and their lifestyles. The uproar was largely unexpected, considering how long any Flintstones treatment of the issue would have already been on record.

“For over a half century now, The Flintstones theme song has cavalierly touted that when you’re with them you will have a ‘gay antique time,'” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said on the air Tuesday. “This sort of flip treatment of the homosexual lifestyle, and that it could possibly apply to a family in the stone age, is offensive and outrageous. What are they trying to say about the homosexual community? That it is for neanderthals? For cavemen? How can any reasonable person not be mortified when they notice this song?”

The piling on Fred, Wilma, Barney and the gang got worse when Cooper appeared on “The View” Thursday morning. When co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked Cooper if he felt the beloved cartoon show was damaging to young people s