The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for October 14, 2022

I’ve never heard “that’s tight”. Then again, I live in Florida and everyone is an old fogie. (Except me, of course). LOL.

Groovy, man

Heh, this strip slaps.

Age? Act your age? Who is to say how you are supposed to act.

The use of “cool” as in “The Birth of the Cool” goes back to the 1910s. Words are cool.

Some of us old folks get the t-shirt.

Neat-o!

That’s rad man.

Mom’s a head of her time

Man, I was cool before it was cool to be cool…

The Hipsters from the Fifties I grew up with were all about being ‘Hep’ (predated Hip). I believe that followed the previous generations ‘all reeet!’ But you could be a Hep Cat then. In the Twenties, of the Twentieth Century, “that’s fine!” was vaguely in vogue. Or so I’ve been told, from those legends of old. (They made a living playing clarinets and accordions in live radio bands. First seeing some of the sheets about a minute before air. Scares me just writing it.