Have a gay old time

Ladies and gentlemen, The Gaylords! The uproar was largely unexpected, considering how long any Flintstones treatment of the issue would have already been on record. This replacement appears to have happened just out of superior rhythm or similar, however, as the change long predates the modern meaning of the word.

When she insisted that he wear it, using this line, he said, " doesn't get much gayer than this ". Orson Welles had a field day with this at Martin's Celebrity Roast. There's an old folk song: "Ruben Ruben I've been thinking, What a queer world it would be If the men were all transported Far beyond the northern sea.

Louis merely adds to the dynamic. More recently, the hole's been dug deeper with, " Troll the ancient yuletide carol" "troll" in the original sense is an archaic term for singing a song in rounds. The trope name itself comes from the last line of The Flintstones theme song.

Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about! It very much was a thing, in the old Flinstones theme song they ended the song by belting out "We'll have a gay old time". The title song from Tom Waits ' musical The Black Rider uses the original meaning of "gay", probably in order to sound old-timey.

In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the old has himself to "smile and pretend to be gay" when the object of his unrequited affections approaches. Going still further back into Christmas past, the Boar's Head Carol has the title delicacy "bedeck'd with a gay garland".

“For over a half century now, The Flintstones theme song has cavalierly touted that when you’re with them you will have a ‘gay old time,'” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said on the air Tuesday. Nelvana was aiming to use the time unaltered lyrics of the featured songs, including going the whole nine yards with the complete 5-stanza version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

No milk today, it wasn't always so. The Have a Gay Old Time trope as used in popular culture. Have a yabba-dabba-doo time A dabba-doo time We'll have a gay old time Flintstones, meet the Flintstones They're the modern Stone Age Family From the town of Bedrock They're a page right out of.

In the classic ballad "The Cowboy's Lament" perhaps better known as "The Streets of Laredo" the dying cowboy sings "Once in the saddle I used to go dashing, once in the saddle I used to go gay. It was initially "Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel", but a 19th Century schoolteacher changed it to make it more appropriate for children.

The original meaning behind the word gay was used heavily in song, literature, and film. The Monkees somehow got away with this in their Christmas Episode See for yourself. This song was also covered by Freddie Mercuryof all people.

A cross between Accidental Innuendo and Unusual Euphemism, as a result of Language Drift —. The Platters' "The Great Pretender" is "happy and gay like a clown". Lampshaded in one of Jeff Dunham 's Christmas specials, where one of the puppets sings the line, suddenly realizes what gay has said, and giggles about it.

It was rather effeminate, and had the caption "HO! Rachel Rachel I've been thinking what a gay world it would be If the girls were all transported Far beyond the northern sea. Nowadays, the last line is often parodied " I think she's gay". gay old time: What Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble were having when Wilma and Betty were out.

Somehow made it through in the family film Franklin 's Magic Christmas.