Buick35 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 In the Beach Boys little duece coupe song I always wondered what they meant by a big slip daddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 (edited) Didn't we have this conversation a few months ago? Also, it's "I've got the pink slip, daddy" meaning, "I've got the ownership paperwork, daddy-o," [so let's race and the winner gets the loser's car because that's how confident I am in the Deuce Coupe]. Edited November 11, 2021 by Matt Harwood (see edit history) 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesR Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 I dislike the term "pink slip" in this context because in my state the only actual pink slip the DMV gives you is a registration, which can't transfer ownership. The term isn't universal, so to me it's confusing. The only term I dislike more in ads is "paperwork." What does that mean?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejboyd5 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Please do a search so we don't have to go through this discussion once again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkhammer Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 The ever fascinating subject of linguistics! How language does in fact change over short term in itself is interesting. Growing up in the 1950s and '60s, the youth culture was somewhat unique. At no other time in human history was a young man of 20 years still considered to be a child! For thousands of years, young men were working as adults by the time they were thirteen! Young women were married off to keep house and support themselves how they could at that same age. Sometimes even younger for either of them. The 1950s were an anomaly or over-reaction to the very hard times of the 1930s depression years followed by half a decade of world war. Young parents wanted their children to have the childhood they had been denied. One of the side affects of that was the counter-culture and automotive cultures that grew larger in the '50s and '60s. Growing up in those times, we heard the phrase and or boast often about "having the pink slip!" In many states (not all!) it was a big deal for a young man (or even young lady?) to not be driving "daddy's" car. Hence, "I got the pink slip"! And it was often used as a challenge to race "for pinks"! Sometimes it is hard to understand that that phrase was only commonly used like that for about two decades. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 1 hour ago, ejboyd5 said: Please do a search so we don't have to go through this discussion once again. I believe one can just ignore ANY post and go on down the line. Ben 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Was watching a 1950's movie on TCM the other night (no idea what it was) and there was a scene involved selling a car. The car said something to the effect "I assume you have the pink slip". I always figured it referred to the title of the car. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 3 hours ago, Matt Harwood said: Didn't we have this conversation a few months ago? I knew this subject was already covered, so I searched the forum. Here is the link from just a few months ago. See page 6, from 2/3 of the page down to the bottom: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ply33 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 3 hours ago, JamesR said: I dislike the term "pink slip" in this context because in my state the only actual pink slip the DMV gives you is a registration, which can't transfer ownership. The term isn't universal, so to me it's confusing. The only term I dislike more in ads is "paperwork." What does that mean?? The terminology was specific to California and the era. Why California? Well pretty much all of the Beach Boy songs were based about things in Southern California and this was no exception. For what it is worth, my old car was brought into California before they started issuing titles and the “paperwork” for that car consists of a single pink slip of paper. It has vehicle and owner information on the front and places to sign the car over to a new owner on the back. I guess I could scan it, blank out 90% of it for privacy reasons, and post it to show what it looks like. But I am a bit too lazy to do that at present. Also, for what it is worth, the yearly registration forms look pretty much the same now as they did decades ago and were/are on white paper stock, not pink. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Title was called "The Pink" for short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28 Chrysler Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 More "Beach Boys" slang Two cool shorts standing side by side is not a couple of gals. The were the shorter wheelbase or the mid sized cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Andrews Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 hour ago, TAKerry said: Was watching a 1950's movie on TCM the other night (no idea what it was) and there was a scene involved selling a car. The car said something to the effect "I assume you have the pink slip". I always figured it referred to the title of the car. That line about having the pink slip was no doubt used in several movies and is well known as a California thing; the movie scene you mention reminds me of the movie "Psycho" when Janet Leigh was selling her car (57 Ford?) at a used car lot and purchasing another so she could keep running with the $40k she stole, the salesman said that line to her; I'm pretty sure she was running from Phoenix, and heading for the Bates Motel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 There was even a TV show called "Pinks" where street racers would race for ownership of each other's cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 4 hours ago, wayne sheldon said: The ever fascinating subject of linguistics! How language does in fact change over short term in itself is interesting. Growing up in the 1950s and '60s, the youth culture was somewhat unique. At no other time in human history was a young man of 20 years still considered to be a child! For thousands of years, young men were working as adults by the time they were thirteen! Young women were married off to keep house and support themselves how they could at that same age. Sometimes even younger for either of them. The 1950s were an anomaly or over-reaction to the very hard times of the 1930s depression years followed by half a decade of world war. Young parents wanted their children to have the childhood they had been denied. The above song summed it up. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Now, THAT is my idea of '50s Rock-n-Roll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivguy Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 There are so many words that were sung in pop songs that were misunderstood. I think that we all have phrases that didn't make sense to us at the time. Some still don't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesR Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 25 minutes ago, Rivguy said: There are so many words that were sung in pop songs that were misunderstood. Don't even get me started on Dead Man's Curve. I could look up the lyrics of all those confusing songs online, but after all of these years the mystery created by low fidelity and poor diction is kind of magical. I don't think I want to know the correct words. 😄 Creedence Clearwater Revival was probably the worst. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 That's right! I have learned the correct words in the past and been disappointed. What I had imagined the words as being was more interesting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I kind of got a smile out of the big slip comment. Big slip in the '60s. Yeah, I did it in the car when my parents brought me home from the airport after bootcamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Poor diction is a huge problem. And singers of all types are terrible about it. When I watch You Tube videos of opera singers, I like to find ones captioned in the sung language because even they aren't clear enough in their enunciations. One of my 'fond' memories of my trying to learn at an early age was teachers leading the classroom near the end of the school year, all of us singing "School days, school days, dear old golden rule days - - - -" I even asked my teachers to clarify the words so I could get it right, and they couldn't do it. It took me a couple years before I was able to find the proper words, because the whole class, including the teachers (who I wonder if they even knew the right words themselves?), made it come out "Taco the tuna, a hickory stick! ("taught to the tune of a hickory stick", the slapping of the hickory stick on ones knuckles for not paying sufficient attention in class). When I ASKED my teachers about it? They couldn't give me the right answer. I finally found it in a book in the library along about the third grade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 The line is "there's one more thing, I got the pink slip, daddy" the pink slip being the ownership registration. He means, he owns the car outright and does not owe money on it. If there was a loan out on the car, the lender would hold the pink slip as security until it was paid off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Kinda like "title in hand " today? Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 13 hours ago, Glen Andrews said: That line about having the pink slip was no doubt used in several movies and is well known as a California thing; the movie scene you mention reminds me of the movie "Psycho" when Janet Leigh was selling her car (57 Ford?) at a used car lot and purchasing another so she could keep running with the $40k she stole, the salesman said that line to her; I'm pretty sure she was running from Phoenix, and heading for the Bates Motel. One of my favorite movies. I love the scene with the used car salesman "first time the customer pressured the salesman". The one I was referring to was not from Psycho though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 11 hours ago, JamesR said: Don't even get me started on Dead Man's Curve. I could look up the lyrics of all those confusing songs online, but after all of these years the mystery created by low fidelity and poor diction is kind of magical. I don't think I want to know the correct words. 😄 Creedence Clearwater Revival was probably the worst. I think 'Louis Louis' by the Kingsmen holds the record for undiscernible lyrics. Craig 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC38dls Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 When they recorded Louis Louis supposedly the producer put the microphone up near the ceiling just so it would be hard to understand as it was a remake of an old popular sailor song. dave s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Don't be hard on the OP. Wife mocks me to this day for thinking line in Queen's Champions song is "big disk brakes" vs. "Big disgrace". Of course, if you are old enough to recall, disc brakes were a big deal on newer cars when that song was released. I just thought it was an attitude reference at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 When I got speeding tickets the cop always gave me the pink copy. "I" had the pink slips, Daddy. Things have changed. I went to court a few years ago with the yellow copy. In a room full of 45 violators, I could have swapped tickets with any of them. All plead guilty to a signal light failure. $100 for the light and a mandatory state tax of $100. On my turn the judge passed me on to the cashier and I had my $200 ready. The cashier said "Oh, you've been here before?" I said "No, I'm the 20th". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I have an 80s vinyl LP that is nothing but different versions of "Louie Louie" including one by Rice University's MOB. Common thread is that NONE of the sung versions are intelligible! Me gotta go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC38dls Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Are you sailing across the sea? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete O Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 The gist of this thread really is about how sometimes it's nearly impossible to understand the lyrics of a song as sung by the performer. Perfect example is Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. I've heard that song a thousand times and when I try to sing along I always end up inserting a lot of "hum a hummas" where Mick Jagger slurs the lyrics, which is in most places. When I heard that the Stones were going to stop performing that song, I thought oh boy, here we go again. But then I heard someone slowly and clearly read the lyrics and man, even I think that it crosses a line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 2 hours ago, 60FlatTop said: When I got speeding tickets the cop always gave me the pink copy. "I" had the pink slips, Daddy. Things have changed. I went to court a few years ago with the yellow copy. In a room full of 45 violators, I could have swapped tickets with any of them. All plead guilty to a signal light failure. $100 for the light and a mandatory state tax of $100. On my turn the judge passed me on to the cashier and I had my $200 ready. The cashier said "Oh, you've been here before?" I said "No, I'm the 20th". Revenue wheels go 'round and 'round... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimy Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Has anyone yet observed that "daddy" had a far different connotation in those days? You had to have been there to understand.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 What does Big Slip Daddy mean? “A 'big slip daddy' is street rod talk for the optional and prized Chevy/Corvette/Mopar limited slip differential rear end on the rear axle. A high performance option that meant a fast street rod capable of an even-tire burnout.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 The limited-slip differential, with brand names such as Positraction, Sure Grip, Anti-Spin or Safe-T-Track, was an essential weapon in the muscle-car wars of the 1960s. This is documented in the often misheard lyric in the Beach Boys classic, “Little Deuce Coupe.” The actual lyric is, “There’s one more thing, I’ve got the big slip, daddy.” “Big slip” was ’60s hot-rod slang for a limited-slip differential. The San Diego Union Tribune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 30 minutes ago, Grimy said: Has anyone yet observed that "daddy" had a far different connotation in those days? You had to have been there to understand.... I was there when it meant these!! https://www.prolineracing.com/product/1-10-big-daddy-wide-drag-slick-mc-rear-2.2-3.0-drag-tire-2/PRO1018417.html Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 It think this whole thing is going into dis dress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC38dls Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 The lyrics to the song “little deuce coup” Bridge]She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floorAnd she purrs like a kitten 'till the lake pipes roarAnd if that ain't enough to make you flip your lidThere's one more thing, I got the pink slip, daddy[Verse 3]And coming off the line when the light turns green (deuce coupe)Well, she blows them out of the water like you never seen (deuce coupe)I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer (deuce coupe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 2 hours ago, mike6024 said: The limited-slip differential, with brand names such as Positraction, Sure Grip, Anti-Spin or Safe-T-Track, was an essential weapon in the muscle-car wars of the 1960s. This is documented in the often misheard lyric in the Beach Boys classic, “Little Deuce Coupe.” The actual lyric is, “There’s one more thing, I’ve got the big slip, daddy.” “Big slip” was ’60s hot-rod slang for a limited-slip differential. Here we go again.... Thanks for keeping it laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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