Who said anything about bringing those words into polite conversation? HAIR was a beautiful Musical...it contained "Good Morning Starshine" and other pretty tunes. This is just to show those people with "virgin ears" what kind of language is used daily in this country! Hal
I'd guess those terms are used by far fewer than one percent of the people in this country. Probably closer to a tenth of one percent.
@Hal Pollner You left one out. Probably because it originated in the all-white western suburbs of Chicago: "Splib".........Denotes a black, sometimes Puerto Rican. Frank
From Urban Dictionary: splib In the mid 60's, while in the Marine Corps, the term splib was used commonly among black and white marines. It was not used in a pejorative way by either blacks or whites but as a "hip", descriptive way of identifying a person, usually a male, of the negro race, such as in the phrase "splib dude". Likewise the descriptive and non-pejorative term "chuck" was used to describe a white person, however it was also used to describe the Viet Cong (VC), such as in "Victor Charlie", "Charlie" or just "Chuck" In fact, one might get vanilla or chocolate creme filled cookies that were included in the field "C" rations. These were commonly referred to as "chuck" or "splib" cookies.
During one of President Obama's speeches, he used the word "niggardly", which of course means cheap or penny-pinching, but to some ears it was shocking to hear him say a word so close to the obscene N-word. Hal
Hair ran from 1967 to 1972. Not exactly current or indicative of "language used daily in this country."