I know the “dude!” thing needs to die, but I work with a big groups of 20-35 year old guys who use it for every occasion, so in self-defence, I do, too. Their other favorite word? Used as adjective and verb: harsh. “Dude, that is so harsh!” and “Man, he’s harshin’ on me today really bad…”
God help me. I’m a literate, educated woman and I find myself playing along with their little language games… :rolleyes:
I gave up on whaasssssup a long time ago but I still say ¿qué paaasssaaaaaaa? Maybe I made that one up.
I am also a casualty of BtVS-speak. Usually indicated by employing “smoochies” as both a noun and a verb, and using “wicked” as an adverb.
hangs head in shame
“Talk amongst yourselves” - Coffee Talk on SNL
“Speeeak to me Lucy” - I Love Lucy
“Woah” - Any Keanu Reeves movie
“Bollocks!”
“And monkeys might fly outta my butt!” - Wayne’s World
“She’d give a dog a bone” - Wayne’s World
Most Beavis & Butthead sayings
“I didn’t do it” - The Simpsons
“Riiiiight” - Dr Evil
There are more laying around in my head.
someone asks you a question- “What are you a cop?”
Is “wicked” (as in “wicked good”) a Buffy thing? I have never seen Buffy, but people in Massachusetts have used “wicked” for as long as I can remember (along with the aforementioned “like”).
Two more I just thought of:
1.) “Don’t go there” or its variant, “Don’t EVEN go there!” Apparently, this was cool at one time, but when the 50-year-old women I work with use a phrase, it’s no longer cool.
2.) “Doing the _____ thing.” For example: “We did the lunch thing.” Why not just say, “We ate lunch”? Everyone’s always doing the shopping thing, doing the lunch thing, doing the work thing… AAAUGH!!
Back when the movie “Swingers” came out, everyone was saying things were “money” and calling everyone “baby.” I fell prey to that as well. I’ve stopped saying that.
“Awesome” as an exclaimation has fallen out of my vocabulary.
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I believe that little verbal tic was given to us by David Letterman’s nightly Top Ten List.
Thought of a couple more:[ul][li]“Totally excellent!” -Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure[/li][li]“You go, girl” -I dunno where this one came from.[/li][li]“Go, _______! It’s your birthday!” -Again, don’t know the origin.[/li][li]“Bogus!” -Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure[/li][li](After an obvious lie…) “Yeah. That’s the ticket!” -SNL[/ul][/li]
Speaking of catch words and phrases, I think one from the 70’s is still with us. I remember that the show Happy Days popularized the use of the word “nerd”. I think the writers of the show may have even invented the word. It’s still with us.
Let’s see…
I’ve fallen prey to the “dude” thing. Though, I AM trying to stop.
A phrase I used to use all the time “Well, whoop de shit”. I think I might’ve gotten that from MST3K.
I always say “ta” instead of goodbye, and not only do I do it, I’ve gotten friends to start…
Two more… Whenever there’s a break in conversation either “So… the Ebola virus… that must suck” from Friends or “Say, do any of you guys know how to Madison?” from the Rocky Horror Picture show.
I’m done.
Someone asks you a question, favor:
“I ain’t Ghandi” as ‘in f*ck you , I ain’t Ghandi’ from a song by the Mekons. I no longer say that.
Or the most annoying: pull down you lower eyelid “see any tears?” when someone is whining nearby. Too sensitive.
“Who died and left you in charge?” Nope, not anymore.
“There are thousands of comedians looking for work. Don’t try to compete” Was said to me once by a criminal justice major. Years later I heard it from a security guard. Some of these ‘I have the power-you are sh*t’ phrases may very well spring from the prison industry.
What’s up? “Billy goat’s butt!” I admit, with new neices and nephews around I may have to dredge this one back up.
“dude” (in any context) - waaay overused by me, but I can’t help it!!
“Your story is very compelling Mr. Jackass” ~The Simpsons (I love this one)
“Cha, right…and monkeys might fly out of my butt!” ~Wayne’s World…used to use this one a lot, but luckily I broke myself of it
“your mom” - I can’t help it…whenever someone says anything that might remotely provoke this (and that’s basically anything), it just comes out!!
“Why yall gotta waste my flava?! Damn!” ~Can’t Hardly Wait
note: I don’t really talk like this, it just comes out sometimes 
My vocabulary is a slave to pop culture, and every other phrase out of my mouth tends to be a movie/show/anime/book quote. I can’t help it, it’s just the way I am.
However, I can’t wait until “Friendspeak” wears off, because that shit is very annoying:
“That was sooo not cool.”
“I am sooo getting this.”
“TMI!”
And so on and so on. I feel like telling these people
“You are not Jennifer Aniston and you can’t pull off the image. Trust me, it makes you look and sound stupid. I assure you, this is the case; I speak from experience. I went through a phase where I thought Jason Mewes was so cool and that I could emulate him by saying ‘noonch’ all the time. Nope, wrong answer. I came off like a retard.”
But I digress. I no longer say “radical” or “gnarly” from my Gleaming the Cube days.
I no longer say bogus, excellent or heinous, at least not as the only word in an expression of dismay or excitement. I of course still use these words as they were intended.
I do however, still say Bitchin’, Fuckin A’, Choice, Fuck me, and Holy Monkey. Sometimes the Homer in me will come out and I’ll exclaim “Holy Macaroni!”
But that’s about all.
I try to keep my pop culture references as obscure as possible, to make up for my lack of a personality. There ws one that I fell prey to that I am particularly ashamed of:
“you do the math”.
I must have used that about 50,000 times more often than was appropriate.
Thanks to the wonders of electroshock therapy, I no longer say that.
Yeah, the “Faith” character says it all the time. She is supposed to be from Boston, so perhaps the writers did their homework when they constructed her dialectic.
We said “wicked”, as in “He had to lay his ride down and he’s got wicked road rash, dude.” Translation: He fell off his motorcycle and got scraped up pretty badly. We said this in the late 70’s, waaay before Buffy.
No one remembers it, but in the movie Cat Balloo, Kid Sheline, played by Lee Marvin gets set up with a great line, when asked how it felt when he killed his brother. The passionate almost post orgasmic tone of voice changes the meaning so much, when he says: “It was . . . just . . . fine!”
I use it a lot, do describe those petty moments of karmic vengance that happen from time to time.
Of course when people ask me how I am, I still say, “Just Groovey!” The only funny thing is that I am not making a joke.
Tris
The Buffy usage is a little different; if Faith were to repeat your phrase, she would say; “He fell off his ride. His road rash was wicked bad.”
Ooh, I have a slogan; “Wicked: It’s not just an adjective anymore!”
The word “wicked” functions as an adverb, without the
-ly ending.
As in; “My hotpants are wicked tight.” or “Your ride is wicked cool.”
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet (I was too lazy to read the whole thing this time), but I HATE when people do the old “Mr. Rogers” thing: “Can you say ____?” Yes, I can say it.
Hmmmm…
Run Away! - Python
And now for something completely different. - Python
Roight - Black Adder?
IIeeeWWWW - Friends
Make my day - Dirty Harry