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What the heck is a bippy?
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2008/03/13 - 9:56pm
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I have bet a lot of them in my time, I have even encouraged others to do so. And sometimes those have even been of the sweet variety. However I have no idea what they are and would like to make sure I can cover my bets...

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2008/03/14 - 2:14pm
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“Bippy” can mean the posterior (to put it in polite terms). But, I don't see how that sense could apply here unless someone says something like “You bet your bippy!”

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2008/03/14 - 8:34pm
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OK, I'm guessing you were both born after 1970. Sock it to me!

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2008/03/14 - 9:00pm
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cdevine said:
OK, I'm guessing you were both born after 1970. Sock it to me!

Explain, please.

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2008/03/15 - 10:48am
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Is that a chicken joke?

Wordsmith said:

cdevine said:
OK, I'm guessing you were both born after 1970. Sock it to me!

Explain, please.

I WAS born after 1970, but I could watch Nick at Night!
http://www.timvp.com/laughin.html

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2008/03/15 - 1:25pm
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So, it was used on Laugh-In?

cdevine, if you can offer an explanation, please do!

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2008/03/15 - 5:58pm
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"You bet your sweet bippy" was Dick Martin's catchphrase on Laugh-In. "Sock it to me" was another repeated phrase (and the one that Richard Nixon, of all non-funny people, actually said on the show).

So was the "Is that a chicken joke?" line that felixblackcat used.

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2008/03/15 - 6:50pm
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My parents watched Laugh-In. I remember the Nixon “Sockittummeeee?” thing. Weird show; one might say “insegrevious”…

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2008/03/20 - 7:31pm
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I remember it from Laugh-In but wanted to know where it originated. I would be surprised to learn that it originated on that show and didn't have some earlier origin.

Martha Barnette
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2008/03/20 - 9:22pm
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Well, the Oxford English Dictionary cites Laugh-In as its earliest known source:

"Origin unknown. Popularized by use as a nonsense word with an air of general innuendo, but intentionally vague meaning, on the U.S. television programme Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968-72 )"

I think that "air of general innuendo" is about right. Thanks for bringing back some fond memories, flashart! My whole family used to watch that show together...

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2008/03/22 - 2:17pm
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Also, sometimes on interviews on TV when someone says, for example, “You bet your ass!” it would be bleeped-out and what the viewer would hear is “You bet your {beep-boop}!” Does that theory make any sense to y'all?

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2008/03/25 - 7:56am
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"General innuendo" was one of the staples of Laugh-In, and was probably responsible for a lot of its popularity back in the still strongly censored environment of early 70s TV. And not all of the words were invented. How about "Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls" (near and dear to the hearts of the users of this forum, I'm sure)? I had a friend whose parents wouldn't let him watch the show after they heard that one. Incredible!

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2008/03/27 - 1:54pm
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Ouch! I wonder if it has anything to do with the F-word¹… That is downright spooky²!

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¹Y'know, f-u-n-k.
²And sad, come to think of it.

Martha Barnette
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2008/03/29 - 8:30pm
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“Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls”

LarryG, good point. I'd forgotten about that, but that's a perfect example, of course.

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2008/04/01 - 5:30am
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Veerryy interstink, but stupit
😀 Thanks for the flashback

Martha Barnette
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2008/04/02 - 7:16pm
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And BT, thank YOU for the flashback! I can't believe what familial memories that conjures up for me, my parents and brother and I all sitting around laughing at that craziness.

Oooo, and: "A poem, by Henry Gibson."

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