What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

RealWrastling@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 187 points –
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There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.

And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.

Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.

There's a John Mulaney joke about this

Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?

Found the podcast...

As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol

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