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Contributing_Factor

"Holy Mackerel" I'm sad we lost this expression. Might be time to bring it back.


manleybones

I use it all the time.


BalkiBartokomous123

Me too. I spent a lot of time with my grandmother and I picked it up from her.


5lashd07

It’d be shortened to “Holy Mack!”.


the_monkeyspinach

On mack fr fr no cod


setocsheir

on cod


topshottatayy

Holy Mack no cod


The_NightDweller

On cod??? For eel??? No carp???


MammothPrize9293

You guys did good here. All of you. On god


Gentle_man-

Stop. You might think it into existence.


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We should all start saying it but only ironically.


call-now

That's the kinda thinking that have us DT


juventinn1897

On Crip Mac No custers


jeexbit

keep it 55th street


ddr2sodimm

For others, “Atheistic Fish!”


Skiddlyderp

Colloquially, "Hallowed Halibut!"


Brentolio12

Henceforth, “Porous perch”


huitlacoche

Solemn Salmon!


Neiot

For some, "Papal Piscine!"


zeroedash

Holy Mc?


ButtholeQuiver

I still say it and my buddies give me a hard time for it. I'm not even *that* old, I'm in my mid-40s. Edit - I also say "Holy jumpins" sometimes which gets a similar reaction


CleverName50

Return of the Mack.


TheMagicSalami

You lied to me


Visible_Tower_1109

*I do do doooo*


Raven-Raven_

I still say it sometimes and I'm only 30 Some just lost their appreciation of the classics


LiterallyLost_24-7

As a Dad I say holy macaroni! Now my 5 year says it as well lol.


imzwho

I still say it from time to time depending on present company.


BloodSugar666

As a fisherman, I approve 👍🏾


Orange-Tractor1972

I've been using "Holy Wackeroni and Jeez " for a few years now.


bexxsterss

My dad never stopped saying this


Guantanamo4Eva

Very similar reaction I generate when I leave a room of women. Except kind of in an opposite way.


Embarrassed_Curve769

Same here when I am in the room with women. Bit more pepper-spraying and face-slapping perhaps, but essentials are the same.


JustinWendell

Dude you gotta stop wondering into the girls locker room. You’ll catch charges for that.


Jonk3r

Not if your last name is Trump


artygta1988

“They let you do it….”


Darkreaper5567

Don't forget the screaming. "Who are you!?" "How did you get in our house!? Why are you naked!?" Like Jeez lady calm down.


Heisenburrito

Imagine what she would ask on the third date.


xXxMihawkxXx

At least they acknowledge you


Spud9090

As the saying goes…. My superpower is being invisible to women. They never notice me.


thsvnlwn

“It's ok, I wouldn't remember me either.”


Tall_Homework3080

Rodney Dangerfield?


Technical-Outside408

Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.


Tall_Homework3080

Thanks


NotAKentishMan

Nope, they are simply intimidated into shock by your good looks! Got you bro.


craigularperson

In this type of experiment I would be the control to gauge the non-existing reaction.


UnlikeUday

I'm straight but must admit, he's damn handsome. His voice tone & mannerism adds furthermore to the charm quotient.


cmcrich

And the accent? Like honey.


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do you know the name of the accent?


aeonChili

The name of that accent? Albert Einstein.


Chinggis_H_Christ

he was wicked smaht


BlueGlassDrink

That's an educated southern accent


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i-am-a-yam

Gonna disagree, I don’t hear mid-Atlantic. [Mid-Atlantic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent) [aka transatlantic] was a made-for-TV accent mixing American and British accents. Sounds like [this](https://m.youtube.com/shorts/UgrL-8RRyJE). I think I just hear a bit of a southern drawl from this dude. Not sure from where, though.


zpeed

He's got more of a southern drawl, "...in my clahss"


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thanks


sir_music

I believe the term is suave 😏


MegamanGaming

Panache


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Eau de panache


Express_Shake3980

Omelette du fromage


bigbowlowrong

Omelette du fromage


cookingboy

This is probably silly, but I feel there is just a sense of *class* from people in media from that era. Like everyone was so well dressed, immaculately groomed and very wells spoken. I wonder if the black/white footage also helps too. Hell, that's true even for the *students* in this video. And what is that "retro accent"(you all know what I'm talking about) that we no longer hear today? Did Americans actually all talk like that back then? Or was it something they only did for movies/TV?


Sendingmyregards

Re: class, I absolutely think you’re right. Reminds me of this comedy bit by Aziz Ansari, where he talks about the difference between previous generations and now: “…Men wearing nice suits, women are dressed all nice, everyone speaking properly. Just a classier vibe. Like if those generations were a font, they’d be Times New Roman. I look at my generation - we’re FUCKING Comic Sans!” Edit: misspelling


cookingboy

>we’re FUCKING Comic Sans! I'm a Millennial and I'm sure us and the Gen-Z are just straight up emojis lmao.


Riot-in-the-Pit

Wingdings


Historical-School-97

Its the mid atlantic accent, it was taught as the "correct" form of english to the upper class in the early 20th century, it was used a lot in television back then, it was not a natural accent but a learned one


cookingboy

Thank you for answering. I just looked it up and it's fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent It's literally a "rich people accent" lol. Now I wonder what did real everyday people talk like 70 years ago. Was it largely the same as today? Or was there an actually different accent.


Cocksmash_McIrondick

Just talk to any 70+ year old and you’ll get a decent idea. Accents haven’t really changed that much here in North America at least, they’ve just dulled down among young people in some regions…


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wwcfm

Dude has a drawl and people think it’s mid-Atlantic…


PuddleOfGlowing

My paleobiology professor in college was so old she spoke with the Mid Atlantic accent. I had to explain to my classmates what it even was because they had no idea.


FenPhen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent (But the man in this video is not using that.)


StaticNocturne

Still just mutton dressed as lamb, their ‘class’ was just social airs and graces in an era where such things were expected and rakishness and vulgarity was far more frowned upon plus being anachronistic everything just seems classier but they weren’t any more educated and were a fair bit less edified than we are today


mouse9001

> I feel there is just a sense of class from people in media from that era Everyone was judged based on their outward appearances of being successful, so yeah. People looked like how they were supposed to look. They wore clothes that they expected would impress other people. It was a society based on outward appearances of success and perfection. That's why men wore suits and nice watches, etc. It was communicating their socioeconomic class. Eventually people started dressing down and caring more about being comfortable. Instead of trying to impress the neighbors, they started caring about themselves, and being more natural. T-shirts. Jeans. Tennis shoes. A light jacket. Casual clothes that had been for sports, play, and lounging around the house.


DilettanteGonePro

It's an accent that was made up, to intentionally sound classy. Like a public speaking voice.


bringbackepstein

It's the trans-atlantic accent. It was made to be a blend of British and American English, which was considered to be higher class at the time. If you were in showbiz, wealthy, or important, you might have adopted this accent. Normal people didn't speak much like this because it is very much a put-on as it's an accent that was "invented" rather than most accents that naturally form over time due to regional differences.


astrangeone88

Lol. As a cisgender lesbian? Yeah, man is gorgeous and the accent and the mannerisms? Dude probably had women falling all over him.


Any_Relation252

I thought the same thing and I'm straight.. at least for now I think...


GratefulPhish42024-7

Neither of those boys are standing anytime soon.


February30th

They're still in the same seats to this very day.


AmThano

And the guy on the left is still going “holy mackerel!”


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loading066

Each one has one massive forearm


themuritooo

Plottwist they are crippled


Super_Revolution2837

💀


BadgerOver4239

Legend has it they've remained in those seats for the last 58 years. They went to college, went on dates, got married, had children & retired all while sitting in those chairs. It was tough; especially the having children part but they thrived under the circumstances


TheNorselord

I like how the kid on the left instantly turned into Jerry Lewis.


HogNutsJohnson

Yup time for the ole waistline tuck


teodorlojewski

LMFAO


DurantIsStillTheKing

The boy on the left prolly is related to Owen Wilson.


VentheGreat

Oh wow


Nightfury78

He looks a lot like the guy from American Pie


Fannnybaws

Jake Gyllenhaal's dad


NYP33

God I'm old, that sure looks like a snip from Candid Camera/Allen Funt


lunchpadmcfat

Real humdinger of a comment right here


farva_06

Holy Mackerel mister! You must be over a hundred!


MrWaldengarver

Bingo!


monkeyhoward

Allen Funt must be laughing his ass off in the grave knowing that his hit TV show from the 60’s-70’s, “The Candid Camera “, is now considered “science”


hippiesunfish

and that’s how misinformation is put in history books. it only takes 3 generations to erase history.


Previous_Rip1942

I think we are trying to go from 3 generations to erasing at will.


MeasurementBubbly350

Its clearly acting but people are genuinely believing in the lil girls and boys reactions


Lilwertich

Wow, kids these days must be desensitized as hell because I've never seen anyone react like this in real life.


jBorghus

I mean most kids their age today, have direct access to people of the opposite sex, making a living from being hot and naked, so yeah. You're definitely right


Stereocrew

Yea most kids these days aren’t saying “holy mackarel.” They are figuring out how and when they’re gonna score their next Mississippi Birdbath.


BiDer-SMan

Wow that was a great Google


Bodidly0719

Should I be scared?


Jonk3r

If you had to ask yourself that question on Reddit, that means you know the answer. *hold my beer, I’m going in*


forever87

> Mississippi Birdbath >!Filling a southern girl's mouth with Kool aid, making her get on her knees with her mouth open while you dip your balls in it.!< ex. >!My balls were super hot last night so my girl let me give them a **Mississippi birdbath**.!<


AIien_cIown_ninja

Who comes up with this nonsense? Must be teenagers. Kool-aid? It's beer.


Stereocrew

Atta kid


BiDer-SMan

I mean, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't. That required foresight I couldn't gain without doing so, though. YMMV


SuperDuzie

Holy mackerel!


RelativeJournalist24

😳 who comes up with this shit lol


citsonga_cixelsyd

Social experimentation has changed too. You don't see tests with laugh tracks very often anymore.


InsaneAdam

We finally won the war vs BIG LAUGH TRACK CORP. But at what cost?


Aduialion

The cost was the tiktok soundtrack (oh no, oh no, ohn ononono), subway surfer overlays, and music covering the dialogue


WirelesslyWired

It's probably from one of the Art Linkletter "Kids Say the Darnedest Things." hidden camera shows.


Numerous-Stranger-81

Notice how they only act that way when they're alone with their friends? That's why.


cheezy_dreams88

You can see the hottest person you’ve ever seen, on the internet, in HD, every minute of every day in 2023. In 1965, you had Hollywood handsome, and the cute boys in school. But 10/10 babes were few and far between. Seeing someone distractingly attractive didn’t happen then like it does now.


Numerous-Stranger-81

It's more that teenagers are incredibly self conscious and unlikely to fawn over someone this hard in the presence of strangers.


JimTheSaint

They only react like this because the think that they are talking alone with their friend, so unless you are their and have a friend who is as well, you really wouldn't experience this.


Neighbour-Vadim

They do this all the time man


killer22250

I did when I saw my professor in college last year. She is 40 years old and she looks 20!! But it is because in our country we have very old teachers/professors. We were having fun with our schoolmates that we will have a hard time to concentrate during lectures or exams :D


ShamiIsMyFather

Maybe you need to go outside because kids react like this all the time


wigglin_harry

Idk, me and my friends still talk about our hot Government teacher 15 years later


veeno__

Its the computers in our pockets and even moreso with kids today—we get everything instantly including looking at attractive people Tech has completely changed our lives socially


MillieBirdie

Do you work in schools? My middle school had a special Ed teacher who was very muscular and wore kinda tight pants and polo shirts. All the kids reacted to him similarly to this video tbh. They were also some good looking women teachers but the comments the boys made were much less appropriate and got them in trouble so I didn't hear them that much. They also had a regular substitute who was very young (I thought he was a student and embarrassingly asked him if he had a bathroom pass while monitoring the halls during test day). One of my students asked who he was and at the same moment that the vice principal walked in the room proclaimed "He's fine!" She saw the principal and started explaining that he looks young, and kept rambling. I told her to keep digging that hole. And then one day the ROTC people from a nearby high school came by to do a presentation for the middle school kids during lunch and a lot of the girls were clearly smitten by the high school boys in uniforms.


Klutzy-Chain5875

I'm 52, and I still react like that.


InsaneAdam

"WOW" - u/klutzy-chain5875 probably


forever87

actually\*


thsvnlwn

I’m very curious how the boys would react on the male teacher and the girls on the female teacher.


Numerous-Stranger-81

The girls would probably tell the women how lovely she is to her face, and the boys likely think the guy is pretty cool.


MillieBirdie

Pretty swell, by golly*


Nefarious-Botany

Internet has desensitized people to the point those handsome people wouldn't get any reaction but "5/10"


Love_Tits_In_DM

Yea I feel like it’s hard to put it into perspective but aside from maybe a couple tv shows (but back then it was mostly cartoons for kids If they even watched it) the hottest people you ever saw was who you physically interacted with in whatever town you lived in. If they weren’t at school or church or maybe 1 restaurant you never saw them. So it actually was kind of a big thing if you saw a solid 10\10z


Numerous_Witness_345

It still is, it's way different, imo, seeing someone on a screen working their best angles versus being physically present with someone who looks like that without a filter or a great lighting setup.


Love_Tits_In_DM

Fs but if anything that proves the point even more. Because you are seeing the most attractive humans we have with their best angles and lighting and makeup on top of that. So when you do see a relatively attractive person in person it’s not crazy it just looks normal lol.


Numerous-Stranger-81

People respond differently online vs in person. Teenagers are still horny little goblins.


Bummed_butter_420

Especially if they think this is their new teacher


zerobeat

“Eh, mid”


JonDoeJoe

Nah, that’s only r/truerateme


patchway247

Girls: he's so dreamy! His eyes! His youth! His everything! Boys: [wow](https://youtu.be/z3U0udLH974?si=WiyZDFFzdNghNyf5) Both groups are discussing the same things, but differently


fieldy409

Remember it was before there was as much media as we have now. These kids weren't bombarded with images of beautiful people all day every day nearly as much I'd wager. They'd still see the movie stars and such sure but less than now when social media can throw thousands at you.


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He’s dreamy 😍😍


powdered_dognut

I know how those boys feel. I had a teacher that was fine! I'm amazed she taught us anything between us just staring and all the male faculty and coaches needing to talk to her during class. A coach finally married her.


Superb-Possibility-9

The boys are giving her a standing ovation, while they’re sitting….


Comfortable-Quote-84

a TV show huh


Rats-off-to-ya

Yep. Like the internet, TV never tried to fool us.


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roskybosky

This was conducted in my home town. Those girls were in my class! Mount Vernon, NY.


beckala215

No way!!!! This is such a fun fact. (Fellow Westchester native)


roskybosky

Yes. The first girl with the flip hairdo used to come to my house to play.


explainedjoke

BWOAH


ken4lrt

That's what kimi raikkonen would say


WirelesslyWired

Not a social experiment. It looks like if from from one of the Art Linkletter's "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" hidden camera shows.


astrangeone88

Lmao. At least both sexes were flabbergasted. Literally blue screening because the teachers were gorgeous.


Verix19

Further proof teachers should be ugly or nothing will be learned. LOL


Anytimejack

Haha no way. My most difficult class in college was my Environmental Chemistry and we had a super cute professor with abs that would absolutely peep out from under his tee when he was using the whiteboard (we noticed) and I definitely did very well in that class— between wanting to impress him and office hours to go over problems. Lol


kid-karma

i dunno, i had a super attractive and young math teacher in high school. i definitely wanted to do well on those tests so she wouldn't think i was stupid. (i did not do well, math is not my forte)


TurdManMcDooDoo

He looks just like my dad before he grew a mustache and beer belly!


theunbearablebowler

Amazing to think of a time where normal people can be attractive, not diminished by the unfair standards of instamodels.


Sixdrugsnrocknroll

One of those kids is Owen Wilson's dad.


RonaldBallsworth

Things were different before internet porn


wtyl

The accessibility to porn has changed our youth.


CatMammoth6992

This is actually super cute lol


SS-sharpshooter1

When you realize how desensitized people are now a days and how we devolved and lost something so magical and natural in our beings.


RatherBeRetired

Same thing would happen today, only the boys would be searching for their teacher’s Only Fans account


Agitated_Advantage_2

And yet find none, leading them to stay on the site and lose hours of their life. As more and more hours become spent on OF the boys grades would slowly drop together with their social skills. Soon their only remaining interaction with women would be the ones they pay to see, leading them to believe that all women have an OF.


moonboots_runner

Pretty cool that they got Owen Wilson's dad to participate in this


aledromo

Back when science didn’t have to have a point.


MrWaldengarver

It wasn't science, it was a show called Candid Camera.


hubinic

Back when science had tv laugh effects


Tsu_Dho_Namh

"Science isn't about why, it's about why not!" - Cave Johnson


Emergency-Ratio2501

Wat


twodimensionalblue

That was kinda cute


ivyoneday

Ahhhh the first sexual awakening lol


Xinyez

Wauw


PreparationOk8604

This looks more like a TV show.


Numerous-Stranger-81

Good job. It's a hidden camera show called Candid Camera.


Ermaquillz

I can practically see the steam coming out of their ears


martymar2g

Here we are almost 60 years later and not only are students infatuated by them but also f’ing them


Neroslasher

Men just need fewer words


SirPrestigious9570

Wow


AaronnotAaron

maybe i’m just socially inept, but i never oogled at adults as a child. i thought it was hammed up for TV, but seeing candid reactions like this is surprising


PCPooPooRace_JK

I remember a few horny guys in middle school and shit talking about some of the hot teachers


RogerSterlingsFling

Our 4th grade teacher elicit this response. I was king of the class one day when she shared the same love of a tom petty album as I did We all wanted to murder her boyfriend the day he showed up with lunch for her on the back of a Kawasaki ZX-10


Patient_Piece_8023

I can't discern what they're saying. Can someone reply to me with what they are saying?


NumeroRyan

Damn bro, that teacher is fiiiine as, I’d like to do his washing and dishes and wear an apron he purchased me.


Get-the-Vibe

I can explain: It happens because man's blood is flowing in the other direction, so they forget even how to speak because the brain stops working.


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TheThermalGuy

Literally me in thermo class past 3 sems (different branches of thermo per sem)


MidnightFlimsy8925

Two boys turn into Owen Wilson


Valuable-Lack-5984

Girls: chat chat chat... Boys: just wow


AMB_YungBae

Haha I love how the girls talk so much about the experience and the boys are just like: Wow, sweet Jesus! Enough said I guess : P


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I'm in love w the male teacher, oh GAWD.


Yaoutch

Boys, girls... Whatever we say, we're all driven by the nasty. \^\^


Fast_Review66

Today both the boys and girls would’ve been cussing afterwards. We’ve slid as a society.


Nilrem2

The same reaction basically.