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Talk Like Frank Sinatra - The Art of Manliness

artofmanliness.com — Frank Sinatra was the epitome of American male coolness. Women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be him. Part of his manly and cool presence came from the way he talked. Throw a few of these words into your conversations. You ’ll probably get a few raised eyebrows, but like Frank, you’ll add spark to even the most mundane interactions.

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  • mrcoolman, on 02/12/2008, -29/+4love this website i learn and fallow all these guide lines
    • disabled4diggin, on 02/12/2008, -2/+16epic bombsville.

      GTFO bunter!
    • jmpeagle, on 02/12/2008, -1/+18fallow? Are you a piece of farmland not currently being planted?
      • hiPpymIck, on 02/12/2008, -6/+2d'oh - it means a *woman* not currently being planted

        similar to..
        "Tomato - As in “a ripe tomato” a woman ready for seduction or even marriage."
    • LongShlong, on 02/12/2008, -1/+17Perhaps you should 'follow' this site a little more closely: http://www.dictionary.com
  • sarazen, on 02/12/2008, -7/+32Wow-ee wow wow, I dig that bag.
    • robdiggity, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3Phil Hartman: possibly the best Sinatra of all time. I challenge all diggers to read this SNL transcript - if you can do so without wetting yourself you win the prize:

      http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90ksinatra.phtml
      • webcrumb, on 02/12/2008, -3/+2What do I win?
        (Does it lose something in transcription? Or is SNL not really all that funny?)
  • darchy, on 02/12/2008, -16/+3Great Article. You should go to this website and download the free eBook - its amazing!! :-)
  • Genthree, on 02/12/2008, -5/+61I like Old Blue Eyes as much as the next guy, but these phrases are from a different era. Use them in everyday conversation nowadays and you'll get more than strange looks, people will start to view you as a "Harve".
    • doctechnical, on 02/12/2008, -0/+16You mean you don't want to sound like you just came out of a black and white movie? I'm hep to the jive. Twenty three skiddoo!
      • robdiggity, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Is it 'hep' or 'hip?' I always get those mixed up.
        • vornan19, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5If you are hip it's hep, dig?
        • doctechnical, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4According to an unimpeachable source (Cab Calloway), it's Hep.
    • gypsi, on 02/12/2008, -10/+9sinatra showed us as long as you have one black "friend", you can act like a dirty bigot
      • uberchaoslord, on 02/12/2008, -0/+9Are you a retard? Sinatra was Italian growing up in an anti-italian eastern american in the 20s. He appeared in public to discuss integration in the south in the 60s ffs. You sir are an idiot.
      • jmchez, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4He had way more than one black friend. Ella Fitzgerald comes to mind, among many.
    • Valleye, on 02/12/2008, -4/+5Not true.

      Just don't lay it on thick, ya know sprinkle them into everyday conversation and you stand out just enough but not too much.
    • kmeatball, on 02/12/2008, -1/+7You'll stand out just enough like my grandpa
    • Iconoclast25, on 02/12/2008, -1/+6Really?

      You mean like "Dig - A term of appreciation for a person or thing, as in “I dig her,” right?

      What's the name / purpose of this site, again?
  • ThinkBox, on 02/12/2008, -1/+13"Wow-ee wow wow- An expression of glee, joyful anticipation and a euphemism for lubricious fun."

    I never would have got that! Man, how the times change!
  • Brad324, on 02/12/2008, -3/+24You're such a loser, you'll never bag those chicks, no matter how much gasoline they drink, you punk.

    Do I sound manly yet?
    • Asianwaste, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3replace "loser" or "punk" with "bunter" and "crumb".
      "Do I sound manly yet?" should just be "You dig?"
    • Haohmaru, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4I think you'll get more than a raised eye-brow. More like a, "Will you please shut-up. Who do you think you are Frank Sinatra?"
  • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -31/+12"Women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be him."

    No they didn't. Ask women who were young back then. Sinatra = unattractive. Always has been, always will be. He was a short skinny guy who pranced around like a sissy.
    • canewediggit, on 02/12/2008, -3/+23that has to be the most incorrect statement ever typed on the interwebs. the chairman had more beautiful women than every digger combined. do your homework before speaking up again.
    • ssn697, on 02/12/2008, -3/+28What a maroon! Here is a Frank Sinatra short list (wives not included):

      Lauren Bacall
      Jacqueline Bisset
      Angie Dickinson
      Marlene Dietrich
      Anita Ekberg
      Zsa Zsa Gabor
      Judy Garland
      Pamela Harriman (President Clinton's Financial Backer)
      Jill St. John
      Hope Lange
      Grace Kelly
      Jacqueline Kennedy
      Evelyn Keyes
      Sophia Loren
      Shirley MacLaine
      Marilyn Maxwell
      Marilyn Monroe
      Kim Novak
      Victoria Principal
      Dorothy Provine
      Juliet Prowse
      Nancy Davis Reagan
      Debbie Reynolds
      Princess Soraya, the ex-wife of the Shah of Iran
      Elizabeth Taylor
      Lana Turner
      Gloria Vanderbilt
      Tuesday Weld
      Natalie Wood

      You speak out of your ElAsso...
      • BoneheadFarker, on 02/12/2008, -0/+14Goddamn...and I would still hit some of those women today too...
      • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -10/+1Popupular doesn't mean attractive. Ask your mom. Sinatra = ugly.
        • ssn697, on 02/12/2008, -0/+8There is more to being attractive than just basic physical appearance. You clearly have never figured that out. That makes you ugly, stupid AND boring. A lethal combination with the women, I take it?

          When you have to dis Frank Sinatra to try to make yourself feel better, you open up a window to yourself for all of us to see. EEEWWW!!!
          • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -8/+1Lol, I never had problems with the ladies, sorry. I'm actually very attractive and muscular was all star college football player. Married with kids.

            Fact remains: sinatra was short and ugly. And a terrible actor. Can't say much about his music either, he's the britney spears of jazz.
          • BoneheadFarker, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4"Fact remains: sinatra was short and ugly. And a terrible actor."

            And he got more pussy than most men could possibly imagine, including you. Obviously he had some attractive qualities. Stop bad-mouthing the man...it's just making you look bitter...
          • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -6/+1IT's easy to get pussy when you're paying for it.
          • BoneheadFarker, on 02/12/2008, -1/+3Dude...you just called a long list of Hollywood leading ladies a bunch of whores...
          • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -6/+1And?
          • skankyBacon, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5"Lol, I never had problems with the ladies, sorry. I'm actually very attractive and muscular was all star college football player."

            Hahahahaha. Yeah, Frank Sinatra was despised for his ugliness while you, random_internet_person73826, are Adonis incarnate.
          • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -6/+1The fact that you're ugly and on Digg doesn't mean that everybody on Digg is as ugly as you.
          • robdiggity, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3Wipe, you're clueless. I blocked you a long time ago for some reason I forgot, and now it's all coming back to me: you're a bit of a jackass.

            Frank's sound was Big Band, not "jazz," and i think the rest of us are done with you. back to block-ation.
        • robdiggity, on 02/13/2008, -1/+1"Popupular" doesn't mean anything.
      • Iconoclast25, on 02/12/2008, -2/+5Well, the women on your list were fond of men. Ass wipe ran away to Canada to avoid military service . . . . Ya can't blame him for his penile envy - cowardice is seldom a chick magnet.
        • ElAssoWipo, on 02/12/2008, -8/+2When I was 9. Please tell me more about my life.

          Iconoclast hates brown people, which is why he follows me around.
          • Iconoclast25, on 02/15/2008, -0/+3"I left America out of shame during the vietnam war. I am now proudly Canadian."

            . . . doesn't sound like the act of a 9 y.o., although you still appear to have that level of maturity.

            . . . and I don't care about anyone's skin coloring, including yours; it's the yellow streak down your spine which offends me.
    • Misanthrope, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5fail.
    • robdiggity, on 02/12/2008, -0/+21Frank is DEAD, and I guarantee he's getting laid more than you.
    • ta10n, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7You do NOT talk anymore.
    • grubwort, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5When you've loved and lost the way Frank has, you know what life's about.
  • Diggalickable, on 02/12/2008, -5/+9Great slang for the internet as well.
    A super digger could be known as a:
    Gasser - A man or woman highly admired, considered to be the best or “The End!”
    Wow! That MrBabyMan is a real gasser!
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 02/12/2008, -0/+8so, i can be "cool" just by changing around my syntax and dialect? wow, who knew it could be so .. charley, er .. gas, i mean square? bleh, i'll get back to you guys later.
    • algo, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6yea, it's nothing to do with being rich, famous and talented..
  • RedNeckerson, on 02/12/2008, -6/+45I like his music and all...I have several CD's, but Frank Sinatra was the Michael Jackson of the '40's. He wasn't seen as "manly". He was seen as a war-dodging little pussy. Women liked him then for the same reason girls like the the little sissies in boy bands now.
    Go to the old folks home or the VA and ask a man from his generation. That's where I got the info.
    • FredFredrickson, on 02/12/2008, -2/+8I doubt you'd hear anything like that outside of a VA. And it troubles me that you went to your local VA just to ask them about something you read on Digg.
  • Shambla, on 02/12/2008, -2/+10"You don't scare me. I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool!"
    - Frank Sinatra*

    * Phil Hartman - http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90ksinatra.phtml
    • bjs3171, on 02/12/2008, -3/+1ew.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3A line that only Frank Sinatra could get away with (interpreted by Phil Hartman)
    • RSTaichi, on 02/12/2008, -1/+1If only there were gansta rap back in those days...
  • xOKxWhy, on 02/12/2008, -1/+9Too bad I don't hang out with the Beave so I can use these neat-o phrases.
  • santiago1, on 02/12/2008, -10/+9"Art of Manliness"? Screw that, just be yourself. If you're not a manly kind of guy, you pretty much never will be. Besides, it's not manliness that gets you noticed, it's having confidence and pride in yourself (but not egotism, arrogance, etc.).
    • jonshipman, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6Shut up man, I 've got chunks of guys like you in my stool!
    • teww, on 02/12/2008, -1/+0ok its about feeling good!
  • Herostratus, on 02/12/2008, -1/+10Well I dunno, I been using a lot of these "slang" words my whole life and I don't have masses of broads lined up at my door yet. I call shenanigans.
    • bigtizzle, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5Maybe it's because you destroy your efforts by using words like "shenanigans."
  • Birdoftruth, on 02/12/2008, -9/+2I am above the art of manliness as I am a spartan.
  • ikcilabd, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3I think BORAT ruined "Wow-ee wow wow" for us all...
    • Rizmaster, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4Borat never said that. He said Wawawewa, which is something completely different. And much lamer because it's from Israeli Tv.

      If you recall hearing Wow-ee wow wow recently, it's Christopher Walken as The Continental on SNL.
      • jonshipman, on 02/12/2008, -2/+1The Continental was a room, unless Walken had furniature I am going to assume you meant in instead of as.
  • gypsi, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3i thought all of the swing, jazz, and big-band fads died out with the hip GAP ads that spawned them years ago
  • celfish, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2i'd take frankie any time!!
  • 0crabby0, on 02/12/2008, -1/+11Talk like Frank Sinatra?
    I'd rather drink like Dean Martin
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-MWfLrg6TE
  • Pixelante, on 02/12/2008, -5/+5Those words are too elegant, and too difficult for this generation to remember or even to spell. Some of them are too long. Let's keep to "***** ***** fritto dorito" and be content with it.
    We don't have class. We don't have the looks. We're not cool. Let's get over it.
    • dhVyse, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Speak for yourself you wanker.
    • skankyBacon, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2“What a ring-a-ding broad!”

      Ah yes, such elegance.
  • SPRFRKR, on 02/12/2008, -8/+2"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

    That should help with the ladies.
  • mapkinase, on 02/12/2008, -4/+6This is idiocy on so many level that I do not even want to elaborate.
  • borez, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2?
  • jameshighmore, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2Hello!
  • cyberwiz01, on 02/12/2008, -3/+12We need an International Talk Like Sinatra Day!
  • paulhp, on 02/12/2008, -1/+7Pretty awful, blatant copyright violation
    Original post from years ago:
    http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/RatPack/Sinatr ...
  • RobbieF, on 02/12/2008, -3/+4If you want to intimidate people, think:

    Christopher Walken
    Al Paccino
    James Earl Jones
    • Pixelante, on 02/12/2008, -3/+2And what about De Niro? Are you talking to me? Are YOU talking to ME? ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
    • mahdaeng, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2James Earl Jones?
      • gudnbluts, on 02/13/2008, -2/+0Darth Vader's voice.
        • mahdaeng, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1No kidding. But there's nothing intimidating about James Earl Jones himself.
  • nickbarreto, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5most of those are already in everyday vernacular. and the other half is just outdated slang. Don't tell me you don't know what it means when someone refers to a 'broad'.
  • GiJoeBob, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4I'm hip to your jive there Daddy'o! I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down!
  • lostarchitect, on 02/12/2008, -3/+2yeah, because i want to sound like one of those guys who imitates quentin tarantino movies.
  • algo, on 02/12/2008, -2/+4that article was actually quite retarded: Retarded - Often Offensive. Affected with mental retardation.
  • gllopc, on 02/12/2008, -1/+3It's not just about what you say; but how you say it.
  • Koppie, on 02/12/2008, -5/+3Ol' Blue Eyes is awesome. But using 1950's slang won't make you cool like Frankie Boy. Dug down, sorry.
  • cowtown, on 02/12/2008, -2/+1Ahem...
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Clin ...
  • techguy10, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3No one messed with Sinatra, he had mob ties, he wasn't manly in the sense that he would kick your ass by himself but more in the sense that you'd be floating down by the docks the next day.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/12/2008, -2/+1That's true power.
    • dhVyse, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Sad but true. Got a digg from at least me. For the life of me I can't figure out why there is nothing on Sinatras wiki mentioning this, yet every other actor/singer from his era has something mentioning their mob ties on their Wiki. Coverup?
    • jmchez, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Supposedly he asked his ex-wife, Mia farrow, if she wanted Woody Allen whacked after he ran away with their (Farrow's and Allen's) adopted daughter.

      That would have been well deserved.
  • utterer, on 02/12/2008, -1/+3While we are talking like Sinatra, we still have time to invent the personal computer, color television, warn everyone about 9/11 and start work on Duke Nukem Forever
    • jonshipman, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2I think if were to jump back to the 40s, wokring on Duke Nukem Forever before the other DNs would be kinda moot.
  • SLockhart, on 02/12/2008, -9/+1Sinatra sang for a living. That's not very manly.
  • vkorobkax, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Doesn't work too well if you don't have a north American accent.
  • tjv1tjv1, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5Wow-ee wow wow --- (Past) Frank Sinatra
    Wow-ee wow wow --- (Present) Gay men...
  • 31073, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Some I used without knowing i was paying homage to Sinatra, other seem out of place.
  • RRJackson, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Sinatra was my first concert. Heh...
  • tizzod, on 02/12/2008, -1/+3This is the worst article I've seen to date on Digg, how did it make it to the front page? I feel like my parents would read this to catch up on common slang... "Now... sick means good?"
    Also, don't call a woman a broad and expect her to swoon because she believes you are using an "Affectionate term for a girl or woman with sex appeal."
    • skankyBacon, on 02/12/2008, -2/+1Yeah, I think they have "dame" and "broad" switched. I've never heard of "dame" being offensive, but have heard as much about "broad."
  • aefven, on 02/12/2008, -1/+0Start talking like that and Sinatra will come back from the dead and take you down.
  • jmchez, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2List of his wives and the famous women that he supposedly slept with.

    http://www.samsloan.com/sinatra.htm
  • aaapples, on 02/12/2008, -3/+1If you really want to be cool, you should refer to David Bowie as a ***** when he expressed an interest in starring a biography of you.

    BURIED!
  • SilverBack101, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Yeah, try walking around saying, "Bombsville." Send me a postcard from Gitmo when you get there.
  • ritita, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2Old Blue Eyes makes my heart melt
  • jetso, on 02/20/2008, -1/+0As manly as eating red meat, drinking beer and getting a blowjob. At the same time.
  • drummerva, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1Jack Daniels is not bourbon. It's from TN. Bourbon is from KY.
  • jhonyorah, on 05/14/2008, -0/+0http://myblogmart.com/buy_dvd/nothing-but-the-best ...
    Frank Sinatra - Nothing But The Best. Released to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra?s passing (May 14, 1998)
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