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Thread #115883   Message #3528816
Posted By: Don Firth
21-Jun-13 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Goofball, I was hanging with jazz musicians—some of whom were black— when you were still too little to find your own butt with both hands (you probably can't do it even now without consulting an anatomy chart first).

The term "jive" referred to various styles of music and dancing in the 1920s. There was no general agreement on what it meant, if it ever referred to anything specific. It was used by some by jazz musicians in a very general way early on, and then it was later incorporated into black teenaged slang, and is included in lists or dictionaries of "Ebonics."

Only jive turkeys like you seem to have missed that one. Unhip, man!

Don Firth