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What is an occurance for which you would say "That was nifty."?

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Posted - November 24, 2018
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  • 23659

    Riding this ride.
    :)

      November 24, 2018 2:50 PM MST
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  • 44655
    Yes...it is.
      November 24, 2018 3:05 PM MST
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  • 10664
    Do people even still use that word?  I thought it went out with the 70's (and was replaced by "rad" in the 80's).
      November 24, 2018 3:15 PM MST
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  • 22891
    seeing a baby, theyre so cute
      November 24, 2018 3:29 PM MST
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  • 44655
    Back on 1950...Back in 1950. That's a year before I was born.
      November 24, 2018 5:00 PM MST
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  • 53528

      Back in 1950 was the last time I said that; I used to alternate between that and "Twenty-three skidoo!"

      Hey, wait, I wasn't even born yet in 1950! I guess I've never ever said it. You've tricked me once again, Element 99! Grrrrrrr.

    ~
      November 24, 2018 5:09 PM MST
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  • 6098
    Have never said that because has no meaning for me. That was something my grandparents said. 
      November 24, 2018 5:24 PM MST
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  • 44655
    Groovy.
      November 26, 2018 6:02 AM MST
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  • 6098
    I'm even too young for that one. No one in 70s CA said that.  They did say "bitchin" and "wild" and "stoned". This post was edited by officegirl at November 26, 2018 6:30 AM MST
      November 26, 2018 6:22 AM MST
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  • 44655
    Far out.
      November 26, 2018 6:30 AM MST
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  • 6098
    Exactly!
      November 26, 2018 7:04 AM MST
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  • 53528

      How do you know that "no one" said it?  You happen to know what everyone said or didn't say in a state of millions of people, with whom you could not have conversed with all?  
      November 26, 2018 6:39 AM MST
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  • 6098
    You know what I mean.  The only place I recall ever hearing "groovy" besides in a pop song was in a TV commercial for I have no idea what c. 1968.  I used to get around you know. Not just CA and MA but Oregon, Arizona, Colorado. What people I guess now call road trips.  Which in those days was I guess see America first.  I was curious and when I had no great reasons for hanging around anywhere.  I cannot recall anyone using that term. in the 1970s.   Anywhere.   Element is six or seven years older than I am and well remembers I would guess when it was in use which was by everything I can determine the 1960s or, among some people, before that. 

    "Nifty" I remember hearing older people use when I was growing up  - older than my parents who were then in their 30s and later early 40s. 


      November 26, 2018 7:18 AM MST
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  • 44655
    Actually, my question came to me when a football announcer said something like: "That was a nifty little run.".
      November 26, 2018 7:52 AM MST
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