[Magdalen] Timely c***noscopy query.

[Lesley de Voil]

When I was a child, my younger brothers would delight in singing the pop song "Hallelujah I'm a bum.." Simply so that they could argue with our mother that it was all right to use that word, as they had "heard it on the radio." "Bummer" came along a lot later when my own sons found it at roughly the same age.
Regards
Lesley de Voil

-----Original Message-----
From: "Allan Carr" <allanc25 at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎2/‎06/‎2016 18:20
To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Timely c***noscopy query.

On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> What a bummer!


I remember when I first heard this word "bummer" from my step-daughter in
the mid 1970's. It was strange and I never forgot it.

Today, out of curiousity, I looked it up and, in Merriam Webster, found
First Known Use: 1966

In 1966 at this first use, I was already 35. I'll bet most of you never
thought about it and assumed it had been around forever.
The definition makes it more clear:
An unpleasant experience (as a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug).

I'm trying to remember the British useage, but it's already morning. Maybe
tomorrow (by which I mean later today).





-- 
Allan Carr