We ll have a gay old time

“For over a half century now, The Flintstones theme song has cavalierly touted that when you’re with them you will have a ‘gay old time,'” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said on the air Tuesday.

Some victims of Have a Gay Old Time. NOTE: Please only list words or phrases that are way more commonly used with its vulgar definition than its original innocent definition that was commonly used back in the past. Clean words or phrases that happen to have dirty slang meanings simply aren't enough.

We'll have a gay old time! Yeah! Have the inside scoop on this song? Theme Song Lyrics: Yabba-dabba-doo! / Flintstones, meet the Flintstones / They're the modern stone-age family /.

It very much was a thing, in the old Flinstones theme song they ended the song by belting out "We'll have a gay old time". The original meaning behind the word gay was used heavily in song, literature, and film.