rockin'robin
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brings back old, old memories!...anyone know the meaning of "abc"?....
Already been chewed (gum)
Already been chewed (gum)
Nope to all...."abc" was quite popular...and it means...
"always be cool".....so whenever leaving the conversation with some one...it's "abc"....
Corny, huh?
In the seventies?
Maybe it was a local saying. We used it for chewing gum.
The gum that we chewed as ABC gum was because we already chewed it ourselves, not other people. It meant we temporarily took the gum out, wrapped it up, and saved it for later. It lost most of its flavor but it was there when we needed it.But I bet no one here had any ABC gum. I do remeber when I lived in Berkeley and my daughter and I were walking to see a movie and I saw a girl around 5 yo pick up some gum that was on the sidewalk and said something to her dad thinking he did not see his child put the gum in her mouth. The guy said he know and has his daughter eat gum off the sidewalk to help build up her immune system. I was like and my daughter who was 5 yo was too. That poor little girl had a lot ABC gum that been stepped on and peed on . The gum was black from being so dirty.
The gum that we chewed as ABC gum was because we already chewed it ourselves, not other people. It meant we temporarily took the gum out, wrapped it up, and saved it for later. It lost most of its flavor but it was there when we needed it.