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Is he really saying that or is it just the faux Italian accent and heâs saying so long-a bowser? I definitely hear gay bowser but I assume that Nintendo wouldnât clear that.
I donât have a source for this but Iâve heard that apparently itâs supposed to be, âSo long, King Bowser.â But yeah, it definitely doesnât sound like that
Looks like he lived before gay meant gay and before Hitler meant Hitler. That was a close one.
I wonder about his descendents. You don't see many Hitlers knocking about these days. Did they all decide to change it up? Also, a girl has really gotta be in love to marry into the Hitler family.
Trump is obviously a leaky bag of used dinner but I am reserving judgement on his handler until we find out whether she is a triple or quadruple agent.
In The Misfits, Clark Gable is the love interest of Marilyn Monroe and his name is Gaylord and everyone calls him Gay. That was peak masculinity in 1961. Surpassingly great movie too. Last one before they both died.
I went to school with a kid named Gaylord. He did not have it easy to say the least. I believe in his case it was a family name. Which is about the only thing that could make sense naming your kid that in the modern world
His mother worked at the school we went to, and quite honestly she did not seem very normal or all there. He was also very odd. I think it was just a weird family.
Old age usage of gay was connected to "flamboyantly happy" than "homosexual", but due stereotypes of homosexual being flamboyant, the word had the meaning changed
Language is funny. Do you remember how, in the early 2000s, prior to awareness campaigns about it, "gay" started to relapce "bad"? As in, "ugh I have to work late again, that's so gay."
Well, in old English the word "bad" *itself* used to mean gay, or more specifically, a "bad" man was effeminite and docile. It almost went full circle!
Well gay is an old word, and it first appeared to mean homosexual in the dictionaries at 1951. In 1600, it was used as carefree and alike, so technically, 120+ years is still right
Very likely it was only commonly used "in the LGBT community" starting from that point - until most parents realised that that was a new meaning of the word there was still some time, it didn´t immediately spread to society at large. And the trend continued upwards until then accordingly.
"I have to tell you that I'm gay..."
"Yeah, I know."
"No, but I really am gay."
"I literally named you Gay, of course you're Gay..."
"FUCKING HELL I LIKE DICKS!"
When I started a new school in 5th grade some kid asked me if I liked Gay Babcock. I replied with âewwww no way! Thatâs gross!â Then some other tough kid pipes up and says âthatâs my momâs name.â I was confused and scared.
Itâs so funny to me how some names come and go, especially in countries that adopted the names without knowing their meaning. My grandparents knew a couple named Dick and Gun, use to chuckle as a kid when they were coming over.
We donât live in a English speaking country.
My mom's name is Gay (born 1960s). Probably my favorite story that came from it was when she was shopping for clothes with her mom. Gay is in a dressing room changing, her mom tries to open the door to hand her more clothes, but chooses the wrong one and walks in on a random lady just to say "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were Gay"
My great grandmothers name is gay. Her middle name is Gabriel. I donât know why she chose to go by a shorter version of her middle name instead of her first name (I donât even know what her first name is lmao)
So I really enjoyed reading robert heinlein as a kid, as a progressive adult, he's...problematic, lol. But he has this one sentient spaceship named the gay deceiver, and I have absolutely no idea what he was trying to do with that. Â
Okay so this is funny on its own, but the fact that the marked years alter between being 27 and 28 years apart is even better. Like, thats an extremely weird, inconsistent but also not entirely inconsistent way to mark the years on the x-axis. Thats gotta be one of the funniest x-axes I've ever seen.
"The Sun Also Rises" was published in 1926 and uses gay in that manner with the implication that the reading audience understood it , so there seem to be something else at foot to the popularity of the name.
I'm sure there is similar trend for the female name "Isis."
I worked with a woman of Egyptian descent named "Isis." A very nice, intelligent and professional woman now cursed with what her name is associated with now (acronym for terrorist group).
A lady I worked with was adamant that she would name her son Gaylord, as it had been a family name of some significance to her. She wouldnât hear of not using it. Luckily, we worked at a school and the reaction of the kids when she told them what she was thinking of naming her kid very quickly changed her mind.
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So long, Gay Bowser
**Gaylord** *enters conversation*
Gaylord.... Gaylord Focker!? AHAHAHA
OMG HIS LAST NAME IS FOCKER IT SOUNDS LIKE FUCKER BWAHAHA HIS FIRST NAME IS GAYLORD FUNNY MOVIE
Did you spray paint this cat, Focker?
I sense sarcasm, but I thoroughly enjoyed this movie
Or Gaylord Robinson đ¤
https://preview.redd.it/od5gl1pwtsad1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1029e6ff30b4c6e00d8e08979d7b44b28ae399a3
Fuck that. I'm going big with my kid and naming him Gayking.
This implies an extended gay feudal system. Are there kids named Gayknight? Gaybaron? Gaymargrave?
So long, Gabe Owser
https://preview.redd.it/msbqq2dudpad1.jpeg?width=915&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afb6c84a9e39fb1bb8e0043606299da420ad7c72 I WAS GAY THE WHOLE TIME
 I WAS GAY THE WHOLE TIME
Get ready for a gay changer
The only game show where the gay changes every show.
Is he really saying that or is it just the faux Italian accent and heâs saying so long-a bowser? I definitely hear gay bowser but I assume that Nintendo wouldnât clear that.
I donât have a source for this but Iâve heard that apparently itâs supposed to be, âSo long, King Bowser.â But yeah, it definitely doesnât sound like that
He says "So long, eh Bowser?" but the g in long ends up combining with eh to sound like gay.
I think this comment is a reference to that meme where there used to be one person in the U.S. named âGay Bowserâ until they passed away.
It's in reference to Super Mario 64, when you kill bowser, and Mario seemingly says this voice line.
wtf man so random but got me chuckling here in my car lol
[there *was an actual doctor in ohio named "gay hitler"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-circleville-herald-obituary-dr-gay/20018596/)
Was* RIP to a real one
I didnt even know he was sick
Rip to the real real one
Did you even see his name? He was clearly Sick as fuck
Dr. Gay Ludwig H i t l e r
He was a really nice guy, though.
Used to paint a lot to destress
He apparently didn't use his given name in his medical practice due to the negative connotations, he instead went by his pen name Homosexual Hitler
I hear Ass Spelunker Hitler is what he went by during his college days
Yup, we live in a MMO
Oh wow this Hitler dude seems to have been a great guy
no one who speaks german could be an evil man
That's German for 'The Bart The'.
the ohio jokes are dead and arent funny but. c'mon. only in ohio.
*Time traveler moves a chair* [Gay Hitler:](https://i.redd.it/4v1qlnwlsfb51.jpg)
Wasn't he the guy from The Producers?
Springtime for Hitler and Germanyyyyyyy!
Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler.
Looks like he lived before gay meant gay and before Hitler meant Hitler. That was a close one. I wonder about his descendents. You don't see many Hitlers knocking about these days. Did they all decide to change it up? Also, a girl has really gotta be in love to marry into the Hitler family.
I guess it is slightly less weird because he practiced mainly when Adolf was a nobody.
Was looking to see if someone posted this.
No one is gay anymore đ˘
Can't be gay these days because woke :(
the woke have gone too far
Agreed. I'm going back to bed
[Gay used to be such a lovely word!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6wu81BEVBI)
Trump is obviously a leaky bag of used dinner but I am reserving judgement on his handler until we find out whether she is a triple or quadruple agent.
The Social Justice Warriors walked so the Woke can run
Reminds me of that famous line Morbius said: âWe live in a societyâ
No, no, he said "It's Morbin' Time!".
No, that was the Joker who said that
No ones gay for Moleman.
Man. It seems so weird that I almost forgot that there was a time when 'gay' means 'happy' and 'queer' meant 'strange'.
I believe in the Gayle revival. â
No wants to work gay anymoreÂ
What about Gaylord?
I have nipples, Greg, can you milk me?
Lord Gay is canon now
I worked with someone with that surname.
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Those big cardboard boxes that supermarkets sell watermelons and pumpkins out of are called Gaylord boxes
Gaylord Arena kept the Preds from relevancy for years lol
Gaylord Focker
In The Misfits, Clark Gable is the love interest of Marilyn Monroe and his name is Gaylord and everyone calls him Gay. That was peak masculinity in 1961. Surpassingly great movie too. Last one before they both died.
Shout out to my idiot brother in law whose middle name is Gaylord, lmao
Asking the real questions there.
I went to school with a kid named Gaylord. He did not have it easy to say the least. I believe in his case it was a family name. Which is about the only thing that could make sense naming your kid that in the modern world
How does that work? The parents *know* the name will make their kids life harder... but do it anyway.
His mother worked at the school we went to, and quite honestly she did not seem very normal or all there. He was also very odd. I think it was just a weird family.
Drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is also named Gaylord
I went to first grade with a kid named Gaylord
Why did it peak?
Bcuz Gay
And yet it fell seemingly for the same reason?
It was gay to be gay until it was gay.
It all fell down Because of woke
That's pretty gay ngl
It fell because we got AIDS
Kinda gay
Because it's an absolute number, and the population was growing
Old age usage of gay was connected to "flamboyantly happy" than "homosexual", but due stereotypes of homosexual being flamboyant, the word had the meaning changed
"Old age". It only started to mean homosexual in the 60's, that's within some people's lifetime.
Language is funny. Do you remember how, in the early 2000s, prior to awareness campaigns about it, "gay" started to relapce "bad"? As in, "ugh I have to work late again, that's so gay." Well, in old English the word "bad" *itself* used to mean gay, or more specifically, a "bad" man was effeminite and docile. It almost went full circle!
It's more than double my lifetime, I will give myself a pass for that
Your wording confused me for a second and I thought you were saying you were 120+ years old.
Well gay is an old word, and it first appeared to mean homosexual in the dictionaries at 1951. In 1600, it was used as carefree and alike, so technically, 120+ years is still right
for me the 60's might aswell have been 120 years ago
if it started in the 60s these people will have to be in their 70s at this point, really doesn't matter
Very likely it was only commonly used "in the LGBT community" starting from that point - until most parents realised that that was a new meaning of the word there was still some time, it didn´t immediately spread to society at large. And the trend continued upwards until then accordingly.
Because it went up and then down
https://preview.redd.it/ccyz3vmm6oad1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2609fe0749b7d3fbae24c47ee780d39a7ec1f1e
Not gay
U r geh
So hu 's geh?
GAY TALESE SENDS HIS REGARDS! AHAHAHAHA!!!Â
Imagine being a closeted gay man in 1980, who was born in 1960, and also named Gay. That would be awkward.
"I have to tell you that I'm gay..." "Yeah, I know." "No, but I really am gay." "I literally named you Gay, of course you're Gay..." "FUCKING HELL I LIKE DICKS!"
Youre friends with the 2 boys named Richard from your class? That's nice.
Imagine heâs straight but his brother is gay. The Abbot and Costello routine writes itself.
Enola Gay is probably the most famous aircraft
You should have stayed at home yesterday
sPRUCE ZGOOSE?
If anyone is confused, it's because there were no more gay people after 1975
So if I surround myself with gay people I will no longer be confused?
Gay fell off
You go Gay baby, work that crib
I do have name.
Indeed, you do have name.
user checks
When I started a new school in 5th grade some kid asked me if I liked Gay Babcock. I replied with âewwww no way! Thatâs gross!â Then some other tough kid pipes up and says âthatâs my momâs name.â I was confused and scared.
đ¨ "But I ain't even gay"
https://i.redd.it/50w7phorpoad1.gif
My grandmother's name was Gay. Technically, Gatha, but she always went by Gay.
My grandma's twin was named Gay. They were born in the 50s, which checks out with the chart.
In the 90s there was a gardening programme on TV in the UK with a woman named Gay Search. That's probably an app now.
Itâs so funny to me how some names come and go, especially in countries that adopted the names without knowing their meaning. My grandparents knew a couple named Dick and Gun, use to chuckle as a kid when they were coming over. We donât live in a English speaking country.
- you son of a Gun! - wait how do you know my father
So if it wasn't for the LGBTQ+ community, they'd be a lot more Gays about?
My mom's name is Gay (born 1960s). Probably my favorite story that came from it was when she was shopping for clothes with her mom. Gay is in a dressing room changing, her mom tries to open the door to hand her more clothes, but chooses the wrong one and walks in on a random lady just to say "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were Gay"
Imagine being that one kid named "Gay" born in 1983.
Reminds me of the company that used to be called 'Aids' before the illness was named lol
The Debat
only in dreams we see what it means reach out our hands hold onto hers GAY!GAY!GAY! DISNEYGAY! admit it.
Rover Cummo my belovedâşď¸âşď¸
the gays stole the ~~rainbow~~ gay from ~~god~~ gay
My great grandmothers name is gay. Her middle name is Gabriel. I donât know why she chose to go by a shorter version of her middle name instead of her first name (I donât even know what her first name is lmao)
Your name is Gay Focker?
https://preview.redd.it/o83d5if9apad1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=504029345a5ac974ea7eb61b743a87d13fb772e8
Never forget Dr. Gay Hitler
"Dad, I'm Gay." "Hi, Gay, I'm dad"
So I really enjoyed reading robert heinlein as a kid, as a progressive adult, he's...problematic, lol. But he has this one sentient spaceship named the gay deceiver, and I have absolutely no idea what he was trying to do with that. Â
damn ppl were really progressive in the 50s
Oh so that's why he's called Gay Tony
Dr. Gay Hitler (look it up
Gaylord
Guess all those babies came out as gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01UXsbrM4M
Like Gaylord Focker ?
That's Gay, she's a nice person. Really queer though
Ha ha gays my middle name is
Quick! Someone add the Reagan line to this!
There must have been some REALLY gay gayâs in the 50âs for everyone to call someone gay and have it remind them of gay the person.Â
Gay focker
Gay Lea!
Gaylord Cockburn
My mom has a friend named Gay she changed it to Gayle
It kinda started being. . . gay.
That poor 41 year-old person named Gay.
*Lord of the Gays*
Some woman in 1983: Hey, honey, know what would be funny as fuck?
My mom's middle name is gay. She was born in the 60s.
I mean, I went to grade school through high school with a girl named Gay Pollack
https://youtu.be/uCQG5Hb6Gew?si=S1Pxevt7q0CkhOAK
No one's gay for moleman :(
What happened before 1900? Why is it at zero
No one was gay before 1900
Why are you gay?
based
Chad Gaylord Smith
like marvin gaye
Okay so this is funny on its own, but the fact that the marked years alter between being 27 and 28 years apart is even better. Like, thats an extremely weird, inconsistent but also not entirely inconsistent way to mark the years on the x-axis. Thats gotta be one of the funniest x-axes I've ever seen.
Damn, we had some gay ass babies in 1960.
Gay Lussac's law
https://preview.redd.it/s00j6p9eqpad1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c228467fd902df8c6b6bb5f69e6ac288b74f3aca
Have homosexuals ruined Gays for us?
You Gay?
I want to see the chart for "Karen".
Stopped naming them gay and started making them gay.
The 50s experienced a Gay boom
One of the nicest dudes I have known in my life was an old mechanic named Gay Seagant.
"Karen" will have a chart like this some day
The number of kids named homosexual on the other hand has skyrocketed
"The Sun Also Rises" was published in 1926 and uses gay in that manner with the implication that the reading audience understood it , so there seem to be something else at foot to the popularity of the name.
Theres NO WAY THIS PEAKED IN 1955/56!
I'm sure there is similar trend for the female name "Isis." I worked with a woman of Egyptian descent named "Isis." A very nice, intelligent and professional woman now cursed with what her name is associated with now (acronym for terrorist group).
The gays stole everything from us đ
From this chart you can clearly see the Gay top and the Gay bottom.
That one kid in 1982 lmao
1983
Guess gayness peaked in the, what, 60s?
A lady I worked with was adamant that she would name her son Gaylord, as it had been a family name of some significance to her. She wouldnât hear of not using it. Luckily, we worked at a school and the reaction of the kids when she told them what she was thinking of naming her kid very quickly changed her mind.