January 5, 2009
In exactly which year
did washboard abs become six-pack abs?
(Tangent: Has Sarah Palin made it impossible for ‘liberals’ to say six-pack without wincing?)
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did washboard abs become six-pack abs?
(Tangent: Has Sarah Palin made it impossible for ‘liberals’ to say six-pack without wincing?)
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I’m Joe Four-Pack. My effete, craft beer drinking ways find me often buying beer marketed in foursomes (presumably to avoid going too far over the $10 price point, which scares off the bargain-minded).
Six-pack abs has always sounded funny to me. Either I think of the abdominal consequences of six-pack consumption, or the phrase “one can (or beer) shy of a six-pack” pops to mind.
Washboard abs makes ever so much more sense.
I’m Joe Four-Eyes.
I’d say around 1992.
My craft beer drinking ways are, probably, to blame for the fact that nobody has ever used washboard or six-pack in a description of my abs.
My guess is that a large number of people with, “washboard” abs have never seen an actual washboard.
Mmmnh, good point, Michael. Placed in that context, washboard abs takes on a kind of dance-of-death quality.
It still seems to be washboard here in Tasmania.
The OED does indeed give the first instance as 1992, but that of course doesn’t mean a) that it originated in that year or b) that that was the exact year of the switch.
And I thought I was just making up that 1992 thing.
in the mid 60s, on some bone dry base while running forever, we would have said “cut”.
so…post-60’s and pre-90s, what?