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Using a children's TV character to sell sugar cereal - must be incorrect
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Howdy Doody was my first and still most beloved childhood TV show.
Howdy, Buffalo Bob, Princess SummerFallWinterSpring, Phineas T. Bluster, Clarabell the Clown. Such characters!
And, not the most famous, but the most influential long term:
Chief Thunderthud - Head of the Ooragnak (kangaroo spelled backward - if that isn't politically incorrect, nothing is!) tribe of American Indians. Thunderthud's greeting "Kowabonga!"—a nonsense word that eventually became part of the California surfer culture lexicon.

Underage CFers (Those under 40) you learned it here!
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
Using a children's TV character to sell sugar cereal - must be incorrect
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Howdy Doody was my first and still most beloved childhood TV show.
Howdy, Buffalo Bob, Princess SummerFallWinterSpring, Phineas T. Bluster, Clarabell the Clown. Such characters!
And, not the most famous, but the most influential long term:
Chief Thunderthud - Head of the Ooragnak (kangaroo spelled backward - if that isn't politically incorrect, nothing is!) tribe of American Indians. Thunderthud's greeting "Kowabonga!"—a nonsense word that eventually became part of the California surfer culture lexicon.

Underage CFers (Those under 40) you learned it here!
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It's not nearly as incorrect as having cartoon characters plugging cigarettes during their show.
"The Flintstones" were originally sponsored by Winston cigarettes and did commercials that aired during the show. Granted, the show aired in prime-time and was aimed at grow-ups, but it ran at 8:30 when kids were still up.
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Loxuru said:
Already some 25 years ago, I was in the UK. The people I was with, found it annoying that the significance of the word, expressing a state of 'feeling happy', and which they liked for its versatile meaining, was so narrowing to 'being homosexual'.
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Shrewsbury Town football club used to play at Gay Meadow.
 
Loxuru said:
Already some 25 years ago, I was in the UK. The people I was with, found it annoying that the significance of the word, expressing a state of 'feeling happy', and which they liked for its versatile meaining, was so narrowing to 'being homosexual'.
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The use of the word to describe homosexuals seems to have begun in the XX century.
From Dictionary.com:

The meaning “homosexual” for the word gay has become so prevalent that people hesitate to use the term in its original senses of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.” But the word's association with sexuality is not new. The word gay has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. This sexual world included homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meaning “homosexual” goes back at least to the late 1930s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun. It is no longer considered slang. Today, the noun often designates only a male homosexual and is usually used as a collective plural: gays and lesbians . Usage as a singular noun is uncommon and is sometimes perceived as insulting:He came out as a gay. In contrast, gay in the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is often used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting to gay people. Though some have argued that this sense is independent of the “homosexual”sense, and therefore not homophobic, the argument is weakened by the fact that “homosexual” has long been the dominant meaning of gay, and thus permeates its other usages.

So, the term was first being used to describe libertine sexual behavior, only later did it became specific to homosexuals. And it wasn't until the 1970s, when the Gay Rights Movement began, that the term came to be widely known to most Americans in the homosexual sense.
More from Online Etymology Dictionary here:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gay

In 1944, at the request of the US Government hoping to improve US and Latin American relationship during WWII; Disney produced a short feature Donald Duck and two new (nad never to be seen again) Latino birds as the Three Gay Caballeros.
 
Naraku said:
In 1944, at the request of the US Government hoping to improve US and Latin American relationship during WWII; Disney produced a short feature Donald Duck and two new (nad never to be seen again) Latino birds as the Three Gay Caballeros.
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Perhaps that's why Trump wants his wall :D
 
Naraku said:
The use of the word to describe homosexuals seems to have begun in the XX century.
From Dictionary.com:

The meaning “homosexual” for the word gay has become so prevalent that people hesitate to use the term in its original senses of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy.” But the word's association with sexuality is not new. The word gay has had various senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. This sexual world included homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meaning “homosexual” goes back at least to the late 1930s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as an adjective and later as a noun. It is no longer considered slang. Today, the noun often designates only a male homosexual and is usually used as a collective plural: gays and lesbians . Usage as a singular noun is uncommon and is sometimes perceived as insulting:He came out as a gay. In contrast, gay in the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is often used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting to gay people. Though some have argued that this sense is independent of the “homosexual”sense, and therefore not homophobic, the argument is weakened by the fact that “homosexual” has long been the dominant meaning of gay, and thus permeates its other usages.

So, the term was first being used to describe libertine sexual behavior, only later did it became specific to homosexuals. And it wasn't until the 1970s, when the Gay Rights Movement began, that the term came to be widely known to most Americans in the homosexual sense.
More from Online Etymology Dictionary here:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gay

In 1944, at the request of the US Government hoping to improve US and Latin American relationship during WWII; Disney produced a short feature Donald Duck and two new (nad never to be seen again) Latino birds as the Three Gay Caballeros.
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That essay misses another meaning/connotation of the word. In the 60's and 70's I remember it used (including by me - to my shame) to accuse a male of being effeminate, not necessarily homosexual, but not sufficiently "male."
 
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