[Ads-l] Boogaloo

[Jonathan Lighter]

Next you'll be saying they've never heard of Fess Parker or Choclettos.

JL

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 3:07 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not too obvious at all, as many subscribers are probably too young to
> remember that as you and I do.
>
> Mark Mandel
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:52 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My generation used to dance "the boogaloo" in the late '60s.  Or is that
> > too obvious to mention?
> >
> > MW suggests "boogie" + "hullabaloo."
> >
> > Plausible, since "Hullabaloo" was the name of a roughly
> > contemporaneous rock 'n' roll show on network TV.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > On Jun 2, 2020, at 9:04 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> > adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The phrase "Civil War II - Electric Boogaloo" appeared in a Usenet
> > > > message in October 1994. The phrase referred to the possibility of a
> > > > second U.S. Civil War. Read the message to see the context. It looks
> > > > like the person who used it was "MA Hovi".
> > > >
> > > > Usenet distributed message system
> > > > Newsgroups: alt.tv.melrose-place
> > > > From: ig... at ellis.uchicago.edu (Sleepy)
> > > > Subject: Re: U.S. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT
> > > > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 06:03:47 GMT ...
> > >
> > > I'm no longer able to keep up with exchanges on ADS-L, so this is no
> > dount
> > > something already posted about (possibly by Ben Zimmer), but "Electric
> > > Boogaloo" started as te name of a funk-oriented dance style, celebrated
> > in
> > > 1the 1984 movie Breakin' 2: Electric Bougaloo, featuring the
> celebratory
> > > "Electric Boogaloo" pop song by duo Ollie & Jerry. The history of the
> > term
> > > after that is extraordinarily complex. And I trust someone has looked
> > into
> > > where "boogaloo" came from.
> > >
> > > But this is probably all old stuff. I'm posting this just in case it
> > isn't
> > > already in the ADS-L record. This would probably be a good time for me
> to
> > > go silent on ADS-L, in any case.
> > >
> > > arnold
> > >
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