righteous

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Jan 10 04:57:04 UTC 2006


>  >>> gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM 01/06/06 01:55PM >>>
>
>>In the movie "Just Like Heaven" (on the plane coming back), Jon
>>Heder >says "righteous" several times. This word seems to mean
>>something like >"cool",though it sounded like the connotation was a
>>little different. >
>>>Perhaps thisis surfer lingo.
>
>Righteous=cool goes back to the late 60s.  I specifically remember a
>woman I knew dicsussing this as part of her teenage lingo.
>Fritz J
>
>* * * * *

Also 'potent', when describing dope.

Larry, wondering what HDAS would have for early cites if the R volume
were out...



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