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08 January 2010

Solid Potato Salad. Watch past the first 45 seconds.

post by: Specklet at: 12:46 | 23 comments

That's one of my favourite videos ever. I bet those girls were popular back in the day.

posted by essexjan 08 January | 13:07

Um. Yeah. I should get back to the gym.

posted by Miko 08 January | 13:13

That was so Rule 34.

posted by dhartung 08 January | 15:01

Yikes! I can only watch so much of that kind of movement before I start having visions of someone's neck snapping. (I think that means I'm a pessimist, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.)

posted by Elsa 08 January | 15:01

Ouch!

posted by danf 08 January | 15:13

Damn, that's amazing. I wonder if they have extra fingers and toes.

posted by Hugh Janus 08 January | 15:14

If eating solid potato salad will make me that limber ... I think I'll only eat a little.

posted by brina 08 January | 15:15

I am so glad I'm not the only one who not only Rule 34'd that.

posted by TrishaLynn 08 January | 15:28

Love the video! Hate the phrase "solid potato salad". It makes me picture some kind of large, amorphous bolus of lumpy, vaguely yellowish vegetable matter wedged tightly up somebody's...

Love the video!

posted by Atom Eyes 08 January | 15:56

I know - in my mind, "solid potato" means "not cut up." I was trying to picture what this would look like before I clicked the link.

It wasn't appetizing.

posted by Miko 08 January | 15:58

Isn't "solid" a slangy mid-century expression (predating the '70s usage) used to describe hip music, e.g, "laying down some solid licks"? I have an image of Barbara Stanwyck dolled up as a showgirl (almost certainly in Ball of Fire) talking about some musician's solid, uh, something.

In a cursory seach, I can't find any back-up for this impression.

posted by Elsa 08 January | 16:06

Ah, here's a clip with Stanwyck (as Sugarpuss O'Shea) singing, "The cat is rockin' with a solid eight" [~2:42]. Not sure if that's a slang usage or a traditional usage of "solid." So, no help for my impression that it's slang... but fun to watch! Gene Krupa!

posted by Elsa 08 January | 16:13

Good call, Elsa: Searching "solid" + "hepcat slang" returns:

Solid - Another swing-era superlative meaning good or great.
Ex: "Solid", jackson! (Good work.)
Ex: "Some of you cats are not on the beam.
I know what's wrong, you've been cooking with cream.
Now if you want a beat that's "Solid" and hard, Then
Fry me mama with a can of Lard"
--(Bradley Orch. Tune Lyric)

And Cab Calloway's hepcat dictionary, which I love but can't access from here except the excerpt via this site, says:

Solid (adj.): great, swell, okay.

posted by Miko 08 January | 16:15

Here we go! Solid

Solid Another swing-era superlative meaning
Good or great.
Ex: "Solid", jackson! (Good work.)
Ex: "Some of you cats
are not on the beam.
I know what's wrong, you've
been cooking with cream.
Now if you want a beat
that's "Solid" and hard, Then
Fry me mama with a can of Lard"
--(Bradley Orch. Tune Lyric)

posted by Elsa 08 January | 16:15

Ha! Failure to preview!

We even went for the same link!

posted by Elsa 08 January | 16:16

We even went for the same link!

That verse is irresistible!

posted by Miko 08 January | 16:24

That can't be good for the spine.

Also: this will now be incorporated into my "fantasy file."

posted by ColdChef 08 January | 16:26

Picture the scene. The ColdChef house. Mrs ColdChef walks into the bedroom one evening and sees a complicated arrangement of planks, straw bales and an apple ...

posted by essexjan 08 January | 16:42

Ha!

posted by ColdChef 08 January | 16:55

Unreal. Those girls weren't just incredibly limber, they had killer core strength to come back up again from their deep and slow backbends.

(But was it just me who found themselves thinking of Linda Blair spider-walking down the stairs in The Exorcist around during 1:25 to 1:40?)

posted by maudlin 08 January | 18:50

"The jim, jam, jump is the solid jive" -- Cab Calloway

posted by kirkaracha 08 January | 19:02

Oh bollocks, it's all CGI animation, AND NOT VERY GOOD AT THAT.

(But was it just me who found themselves thinking of Linda Blair spider-walking down the stairs in The Exorcist around during 1:25 to 1:40?)

This right here. A whole cavalcade of Things Bodies Shouldn't Do.

posted by hangashore 08 January | 21:38

Watch past the first 45 seconds.

Funny.... sounds just like my description last summer.

posted by Doohickie 08 January | 22:21

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