Comments on: When to Keep Your Mouth Shut…Five Subjects to Avoid on a First Date http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/ Advice on student style, collegiate dating discussion guides, relationship advice and women's studies. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:46:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Elizabeth http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16093 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:39:09 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16093 From snopes.com:

"The phrase "heebie-jeebies" was invented by Billy De Beck, a famous American comic strip artist of the 1920's, in his popular "Barney Google" strip in 1923. … The invention of "heebie-jeebies" by De Beck was, without doubt, innocent of any racial or ethnic animosity."

WWII started in the 30s. This is a rumor which has been going around, esp. bc it was on snopes. Why don't you ask a Jew? I'm pretty sure if this were true, they'd have a pretty good reaction to tell you you're right or wrong.

But btw… you're wrong.

]]> By: Jake http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16092 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:30:43 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16092 Off topic; but that phrases.org.uk website and the OED (a source I respect) both don't make any mentions about anti-semitism.

In fact the OED gives examples from as early as 1923.

"1923 W. DE BECK in N.Y. American 26 Oct. 9/3 You dumb oxwhy don't you get that stupid look offa your panyou gimme the heeby jeebys! Ibid. 10 Nov. 10/1, 31,000 shares! Worthless stock of ‘the Belgian Hair Tonic Company’ wiped out! Every cent I had in the world… It gives me the heebie jeebies. 1924 H. C. WITWER in Cosmopolitan Oct. 114/2 That discovery gave my new found friend the hibby jibbys. 1926 MAINES & GRANT Wise-Crack Dict. 9/2 Heebie-jeebies, alcoholic shimmy. 1926 Bulletin 13 Dec. 5/5 The latest dance, the ‘Heebie-Jeebies’ is said to represent the incantations made by Red Indian witch doctors before a human sacrifice."

Perhaps a good subject to avoid on first dates would be dark meanings behind seemingly innocent turns of phrase?

http://factsandfriction.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Pathetic Virgin Date http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16091 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:15:36 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16091 I don't mind any of these things. If a guy is worth having, like poor, wonderful, lovable, untouched me, he'll be supportive about all of them and work to understand you.

]]> By: Darcy http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16090 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:01:11 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16090 Thanks for the history lesson, I think it's really great that Sandra pointed this out, because she's helping stamp out ignorant acts of offensiveness.

]]> By: Sophia http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16089 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:47:27 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16089 whoa! it's kinda scary how "harmless" that word has become in our language, nobody even realizes how offensive that is! also kinda scary how it implies a certain level of anti-semitism even in America during WWII…enough for the word to be used often and then eventually even included in the vernacular.

]]> By: kayla http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16088 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:43:49 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16088 http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/heebie-jeebies…

]]> By: Cathy http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16085 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:54:59 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16085 Neither did I …thanks for the info!

]]> By: J - NYU http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16087 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:21:07 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16087 Holy cow. I NEVER knew that.

]]> By: Sandra http://collegecandy.com/2008/06/08/when-to-keep-your-mouth-shutfive-subjects-to-avoid-on-a-first-date/#comment-16086 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:49:28 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/sex/9403#comment-16086 "Heebie-jeebies" is an anti-Semitic term coined during WWII. You probably didn't realize this, but it is derived from the words Hebrew and Jewish, to get heebie-jeebie, or something that makes your skin crawl. I hope after reading my comment you will refrain from using the term again.

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