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Motion Pictures What is a "Short"..as in "chopped short"

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Budget36, Oct 29, 2015.

  1. I remember hearing it a few times in the '60's but it never was used where I lived. Also heard the word "kemp" used the same way.
     
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  2. gnichols
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    ^ Sharp short short.
    Different song... we like short shorts! Gary
     
  3. I heard the word used occasionally around So Cal when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's. My impression was it was a term from the 40's or 50's as I only heard it used by "older" guys.
     
  4. bone31
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    I am from compton, yes from the 50's nothing like a cool short
     
  5. ididntdoit1960
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    The lesser know song Cherry, Cherry Coupe mentions it too "the wildest short in town in my cherry, cherry coupe".......
     
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  6. olscrounger
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    Heard the term a lot in the late 50's early 60's in the Central Valley and a few years back from a couple of older guys (my age-72) from the SoCal area.
     
  7. Atwater Mike
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    Yeah, make sense.
    Ex wife: "You're gonna drive me CRAZY!"
    Me: "Short ride..."
     
  8. So you're straight out of Compton. Wooooooorrrrrrd.

    Hey @Atwater Mike when I was little I was down in the Mission on a Saturday for a birthday party. A family I knew lived right across from from that park on Dolores. Anyway the Pachucos were still pretty big back then and a bunch of them came rolling up for the party. One of them came across the street and someone said, "Hey mang I dig your chort." I thought he meant his girl friend because she wasn't very tall (even compaired to me :D) and he laughed and said, "No little brother he means my car." Then he took an inkpen and drew a pachuc mark on my hand and said, "Now you are one of us, this little marks is how many times you been in prison" Everyone laughed about it.
     
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  9. Jonnie King
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    All of the above is cool, but don't start me talkin' about "Huarache Sandals" from the Beach Boys "Surfin' U.S.A."

    Since I had lived in Pasadena & Hollywood during the early-to-mid 60's, at the beginning of the Beach Boys career, I was the only one at any radio station I worked at in Little Rock, Detroit, or, St.Louis, who ACTUALLY knew what "Huarche sandals" were whenever I played that song !

    "You'd see 'em wearin' their baggies
    Huarache sandals, too
    A bushy, bushy blond hairdo
    Surfin' U.S.A."

    Amen to "Chopped Short" & "Huarache Sandals" !

    Jonnie www.legends.thewwbc.net
     
  10. falcongeorge
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    I heard both "short" and "kemp", but it was more common to hear "short" around here growing up in the sixties.
     
  11. "I had big ol' long black Cadillac, he turned my car into a short..."
     
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  12. rusty rocket
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    Damn you learn something new everyday!!!!!
     
  13. KEMP Kansas Example of Metal Punishment. :D :D :D
     
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  14. Bruce Lancaster
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    The Huarache sandals are the sort of thing that forces language to change over time..."on rubber" traditionally meant owning/using a short; democratizing it by putting pedestrians on rubber too forces the language to split and reformulate the concepts...
     
  15. Ahhh, the language. THIS: is also a Huarache... 11715392016_91ef0c980f_c.jpg
     
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  16. LOL I have actually owned huaraches that didn't have old tire treads for soles, my folks brought them back from La Paz for me. Now that makes me feel a lot older then I really am. :D
     
  17. Rusty O'Toole
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    This is possible. To a professional chauffeur taxi trips would be short hauls. Or, maybe was because a taxi was the shortest thing you could drive, compared to a limousine, bus, or truck.

    Driving a taxicab = pushing a short.
     
  18. i.rant
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    Never saw huaraches with tire soles but I saw plenty of Ho Chi Minh's with them. :eek:
     
  19. yruhot
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    I thought shorts were mustang slang.
     
  20. Corn Fed
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    Back in the 70's I had some huarache sandals with tire tread on them (that my Grandma brought back for me from Cali) way before I was old enough to own a short. But being from the Midwest I didn't know what either were until tonight!
     
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  22. larry k
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    In the Midwest we used the term "jitney" it meant a inline 6 Chevy ,as in chuck berrys song he bought a souped up jitney it was a chery red 53 !
     
  23. This is a jitney, in modern times referred to as a jeepney. Originally found in the Philippines after the second war.

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    I was reading through today and two things come to mind, sun burnt aging American men with Huaraches and shorts and black socks in a Mexican tourist town and @falcongeorge no longer says banned.
     
  24. Bruce Lancaster
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    Vocabulary building...olde R&C's, centering around maybe 1960, had little humorous fiction stories in them. I have not found enough coffee to remember the author and I am right now several miles from any R&C's. Miller??
    Anyway, read those and you will build your vocabulary of hip and beatnik influenced speech, examples documented as part of car culture by their very inclusion in Rod and Custom.
    Then, go find a copy of "Straight from the Fridge*" so you can build out and produce your own truly cool speech.

    *Full title noted in post #17. I gave my copy to a graduate student who became so cool he had to be institutionalized.
     
  25. 30dodge
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    My miss guided minimal education in all things, shorts were not the full size cars or in other words, the short wheel base cars.
    Novas vs Impalas etc.
     
  26. Bruce, you are probably thinking of Carl Kohler. I always looked forward to reading his stories in the small mags.

    Mick
     
  27. blackanblue
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    I love short shorts, can,t recall the song, never heard of short referring to cars other than electrical problems but then I live a sheltered life in the boonys.
     
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  29. Roger O'Dell
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    There was a period of time that some of my friends referred to anything they drove as a short. Artesian Bellflower area socal
     
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