May 27, 2020

"I get your point, but fresh and Joe Biden are two things that just don't go together."

Says mezzrow, reacting to my reaction to Blogger telling us about its new interface and saying it has "a fresh feel."

I'd said: "Rereading this I paused to visualize 'a fresh feel.' Somehow Joe Biden was in the picture." I was picturing his various old-mannish gropings of women and girls. (This one is fake.)

Mezzrow continued: "Does anyone use 'fresh' as a synonym of 'boorish and handsy' any more? I understood immediately, but then Althouse and I are in the same age cohort."

That makes me old enough to remember 1985, and this is as fresh as ever:



Wikipedia: "The song introduced a new meaning to the word 'fresh,' meaning 'good.'"

The top definition for "fresh" at Urban Dictionary is "This word originated during the 80's hip hop era in New York hip hop culture. It was used to describe something new or nice." So Kool & the Gang's usage is also historical.

But Urban Dictionary does treat "get fresh" like part of the living language: "The act of a guy or girl, (commonly used when describing a guy) making (or attempting to make) covert advances towards the object of their affection, typically to illicit sex later on, or 'test the waters' for further advances, typically physcial [sic] in nature." ADDED: I think they meant "typically to elicit sex," but you might elicit illicit sex.

27 comments:

mccullough said...

I wonder if Joe has cheesecake photos of dames in his basement.

Lucid-Ideas said...

Oh I beg to differ, the 'Riden With Biden' (/RWB/) memes are most certainly 'fresh' (warning, NSFW).

He said it himself, if you can't choose between him and Trump, you ain't no ways black!

Yancey Ward said...

Joe Biden groping a young girl is the image of reverse necrophilia.

MadisonMan said...

The clothes in that video are awesome.

bagoh20 said...

The Fresh Prince of Delaware is fresh and exciting, with a very high I.Q., multiple degrees and graduated law school double plus 1st in his class, and he can rock you with an uppercut and a right cross, you little Cornpop.

Geoff Matthews said...

The real picture of Biden sniffing Carter was bad enough.

Lurker21 said...

"Fresh!" and a slap on the face belong to different era. People take sex more seriously now, as strange as that may sound.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Fresh Feel?

Fresh Feel?!?

What is this, a feminine hygiene commercial?

Bilwick said...

"Liberals" like to get fresh (in the 1950s sense of the term) with the Constitution, when they aren't outright raping it.

Bilwick said...

"I wonder if Joe has cheesecake photos of dames in his basement."

As I've often speculated, "liberals," "progressives" and other State-shtuppers probably have photos of a whip-wielding Hillary (or Michelle) in a leather, "Ilse, She-Wolf of the IRS" outfit.

James Graham said...

I propose as a nickname for Biden, "Fingers".

sdharms said...

And sometimes makes a good point but then she just beats it to death till you can’t remember what that good point was

Darrell said...

https://saraacarter.com/joe-biden-tells-voters-hes-going-to-beat-joe-biden/?utm_source=whatfinger

Kevin said...

He should be called a "masher." That's the real old school way.

mezzrow said...

My own tag. Gobsmacked.

Paul J said...

Yesterday you used "empathic" in place of the correct "empathetic". Forget which post.

Mike Petrik said...

The thread title is simply wrong.

As noted by others, Biden behaves in ways that women readily consider inappropriate and women of his generation would regard as "fresh." As also noted earlier, what my wife's older sisters would have considered "fresh" and therefore warranting a slap in the face and a reputation, is now considered sexual assault warranting a prison sentence and record.

What a strange world we live in.

Susan said...

Biden's so fresh he'd be living with his auntie and uncle in Bel Air if he wasn't observing lockdown rules like a good citizen and setting a leaderly example for the rest of us.

Clyde said...

The picture where Biden was groping Stephanie Carter's breast was fake. The one where he was grabbing her shoulders and sniffing her hair was real, real, real. He's still a creep, even in the ones that aren't fake.

Clyde said...

Those "fact-checks" by Snopes don't show that Biden isn't a creep, just that he's not quite as overtly a creep as the satire sites that doctored the pictures made him out to be. They didn't make an innocent guy look creepy, they made a creepy guy look even creepier.

mezzrow said...

When I look at the video, what comes to mind is that you don't blow a whistle in the crowd if Richard Pryor is doing standup.

Clyde said...

James Graham said...
I propose as a nickname for Biden, "Fingers".


I'm so old I remember when Badfinger was a band and not a presidential candidate!

Ann Althouse said...

@paul j

“Empathic” is the older word. “Empathetic” is a later variation influenced by “sympathetic.”

The OED has entries for both and says this about “empathetic”:

“ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: empathic adj.
Etymology: Alteration of empathic adj., after apathetic adj., sympathetic adj., etc.”

cubanbob said...

Joe Biden and the word fresh are epic in its hilarity. Not only is he fresh in the sense of being a boor if not worse but his ideas are way past their 1930's sell by date.

Bob Smith said...

Joey Fingers is a creep and if you are a Democrat he’s your creep. Over and Out

Janette Kok said...

No one has mentioned the Fresh Prince of Bel Air although Bagoh20 alluded to him.

HoodlumDoodlum said...

So Fresh & So Clean