👉 Okay, settle into your moth here attentively. Let’s tackle this rather… prickly bit of 20th and early 21st-century argle bargle – the frankly quite alarming word,
“imagens.”
Now, before you immediately clutch your pearls and think I've dredged something terribly old and unpleasant up from the linguistic muck, let me assure you. It wasn’t exactly a widespread, religiously charged curse in the way some of its brethren were. Instead, it was a rather… specific, almost aggressively localised piece of American slang that popped up primarily during the late 60s and early 70's, largely in the New Mexico, specifically around Stockton, New Mexico. Essentially, to say someone was an "imagen," you basically meant they were a total, absolute, lying bastard . Think of the most contemptible, manipulative, and frankly, beige-dick of a person you could possibly conceive. It wasn't just lying – it was lying with such pathetic sincerity, such carefully constructed little falsehood that it almost hurt to look at. You weren’t just disagreeing with them; you were accusing them of fundamentally existing as an outright fraud. Here’s the kicker: nobody actually knew exactly where the word came from. There are a bunch of crackpot theories involving the Stockton rodeo, some unfortunate incidents involving prize turkeys and a travelling circus… honestly, it's a linguistic fossil that refuses to yield
