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drgnlady 05-05-2009 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by notyouraverage (Post 1806419)
From stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

The show is set in 1960 and features meticulous art direction that strives to make the show as historically accurate as possible. This veracity makes the show especially vulnerable to one of white people’s favorite activities on earth: finding mistakes. And as is always the case with white people, the harder someone strives for accuracy, the happier a white person is to prove them wrong.
by: clander, March 11, 2009
emphasis my own
Yeah! To prove the point, it drives me nuts when people on MadMen say "have a nice day." Total anachronism. That saying was not in use in the 60s.

I.C. a Pi Phi 05-05-2009 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1806364)
Funny thing is, I hadn't even been reading eaglesbaby's thread. Something just smelled off from the get-go.

Maybe we need to get Denise Swanson (she's an ASA and writes the Scumble River Mystery Series) over here to write up some real recruitment fiction.:D

I love Denise Swanson!! Her books crack me up!!

AOII Angel 05-05-2009 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by drgnlady (Post 1806475)
Yeah! To prove the point, it drives me nuts when people on MadMen say "have a nice day." Total anachronism. That saying was not in use in the 60s.
Really? "Have a nice day" is a recent invention? Tell me more! It seems too blase to be a fad phrase.

agzg 05-05-2009 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1806567)
Really? "Have a nice day" is a recent invention? Tell me more! It seems too blase to be a fad phrase.
Maybe with the smiley face? I think that was 80s. I mean, I'm sure people said "have a nice day" in the 60s but they probably meant it.

Upon further research, I've found that it became a cliche in the 70s through truckers on their CB radios.

drgnlady 05-05-2009 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by agzg (Post 1806577)
Maybe with the smiley face? I think that was 80s. I mean, I'm sure people said "have a nice day" in the 60s but they probably meant it.

Upon further research, I've found that it became a cliche in the 70s through truckers on their CB radios.
I'm sure the phrase occurred in the 60s but it wasn't an off-hand way of saying good-bye like it came to be in the 70s so it bugs me when the writers use it in MadMen. The writers are really good about not being anachronistic even when it makes the dialogue sound silly to us now. Anyway, we digress...

AOII Angel 05-05-2009 08:37 PM
Wow...you learn something new everyday! And here I thought that Forest Gump invented the Smiley Face with "Sh*t Happens."

Sister Havana 05-05-2009 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1806364)

Maybe we need to get Denise Swanson (she's an ASA and writes the Scumble River Mystery Series) over here to write up some real recruitment fiction.:D
I love the Scumble River books. :D

SWTXBelle 05-06-2009 07:25 AM
It wasn't Jon Bon Jovi?

drgnlady 05-06-2009 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 1806730)
It wasn't Jon Bon Jovi?
Ha, ha, ha, ha. :D We all needed a laugh. Thanks.

ellebud 05-06-2009 05:18 PM
Have a nice day WAS used in the 60s. I know, I was there. Perhaps it didn't have the edge or double meaning that it has today, but people said it. The first smiley face that I saw was in 1965. I was a little girl and we were in San Francisco. It was on a button that was 50 cents.. a lot of money for that time.

drgnlady 05-06-2009 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by ellebud (Post 1806922)
Have a nice day WAS used in the 60s. I know, I was there. Perhaps it didn't have the edge or double meaning that it has today, but people said it. The first smiley face that I saw was in 1965. I was a little girl and we were in San Francisco. It was on a button that was 50 cents.. a lot of money for that time.
Gotta love California - always a decade ahead of the rest of us! In a good way.:)


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