Don’t worry, everybody. It was just AI. What a relief! I almost thought this guy was a terrible person.

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    Much of that slang is just old and none is made up by him. The consistency of application is something that should be noted though.

    I know “gag a maggot” is at least +30 years old from when I was a kid. It could be older. I also grew up in NC, so the slang could have even been regional.

    • Flying Squid
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      He’s only 56. We’re not talking about someone from Grampaw’s good old days here.

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        I am in my 40’s, so it’s around the same era. All I am saying is that I have heard all of that slang before and it isn’t made up. (I even occasionally use “gag a maggot”, actually.)

        • Flying Squid
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          Maybe it’s a Southern thing. It all sounds old-timey to me.

            • Flying Squid
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              25 hours ago

              Well all I can tell you is that I’m 47, from Indiana, and I spend a lot of time listening to music from the 1930s and 1940s and I don’t say stuff like that.

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                Yeah, so it’s probably regional. My family from your part of the world doesn’t use the colorful language I learned in NC. In many ways, it’s it’s more than just a dialect difference, it’s an entirely different language. Idioms are much more common, or at least, more colorful.

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      Yeah, that alone isn’t strong proof. But it is certainly corroborating alongside using the same usernames and other stuff.