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Straight from the Fridge Dad (Hardcover)

by Max Decharne (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press (Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842430009
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842430002
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 783,723 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This fascinating entree into the world of the hipster contains thousands of examples of slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics from the 1920s to the 1960s. Whether you're a hipster, a B-girl, a weedhead, a moocher, a grifter, or a long gone daddy, this highly original reference should certainly hit the spot. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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Straight From The Fridge Dad lays down the righteous jive
Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the sixties actually dates back before WW2, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue and why snore when you can call some hogs? You're not drunk - you're just plumb full of stagger-juice and your skin isn't pasty, it's just cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That's a shot of java, nix on the moo juice. Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From The Fridge Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.

"Good sacktime eye-candy" - Time Out

"Bopologist Max D gives the good gab on how to speak that hep hipster slang" - Mojo

"9/10" - Loaded

"Shoots the work to fascinating and hilarious effect" - Esquire "Perfect for whiling away an afternoon working on that indoor café sunburn" - I.D.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dictionary of hipster slang 30's to the 60's., 12 Sep 2001
Unhook your ears, Jack. This aint no sucker bait. This hot little book is real gone, totally sent. I mean this book fractured me, I was paralysed man! If any of you long-gone daddies out there wanna impress the hot little mouse in your life then this is the bible for you. I used to be just a palooka in a bluesey groove. But since I've read this book I'm a jitterbuggin' hepcat with a whoopee mama on each arm! So get off the fence, Hortense. Buy this book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars File under cool, 24 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang (Paperback)
So cool it's cold, as the title would suggest. I got this book as a stocking filler and couldn't put it down, although most of the hipster slang is gangster speak and of varying degrees of vulgarity, it is side splittingly funny.
Trying to picture people actually holding a conversation talking like this is probably the best thing about it.
I've given it three stars because it's not really a book that you'd read again and again, but well worth a look.
Buy this book or six of your friends will be carrying you by the handles, Jack.
Plant you now
Dig you later
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