Spike’s chip began to malfunction & Buffy wanted to help. (He being in one of his Not A Bloodsucking Fiend periods. (Besides, he was cute!))
I believe the proper Bill and Ted response to “no way” was not “way” but “yes way”.
First there were The Beats: Ginsberg, Kerouac, et al. Then they were exploited–with paperbacks & movies trumpeting Beat orgies–usually involving bongos. In fact, Herb Caen coined the word “Beatnik” to describe the wanna-be’s who flocked to his beautiful city by the bay in search of free love, reefer & poetry.
Beatsville described both the “real” Beats & the pop phenomenon. The Beatnik stuff has inspired some modern weirdo artists…
For some reason I feel obliged to post this.
My first exposure to a rating scale came from Dan Jenkins, who ran it in the other direction in Semi-Tough(1972)(7 years before 10):
-
"A long time ago, way back in college at TCU, me and Shake and Barbara Jane to a certain extent had worked up this rating system for girls, or wool.
"Mostly, it was Shake’s terminology and we had never forgotten it. "Anything below ten was a Running Sore. That was something that only a Bubba Littleton or a T.J. Lambert would fool around with, but of course either one of them would diddle an alligator if somebody drained the pond. "From the bottom up, our rating system went like this: "A Ten was a Healing Scab. Had a bad complexion, maybe, but was hung and could turn into some kind of barracuda in the rack. "A Nine was a Head Cold. Good-looking but sort of proper and didn’t know anything at all about what a man liked. "An Eight was a Young Dose of the Clap, but pretty in a dimestore kind of way, and not bad for an hour. "A Seven was just rich. "A Six was a Stove or a Stovette. A Stove was over thirty and preferably married. A Stovette was just under thirty, divorced, talked filthy, and tried to make up for all the studs she never got to eat because she got married so young. "A Five was a Dirty Leg. She wore lots of cheap wigs, waited tables or hopped cars, was truly hung, might chew gum, posed for pictures, and got most of her fun in groups. "A Four was a Homecoming Queen or a Sophomore Favorite and a hard-hitting dumbass. Fours married insurance salesmen and got fat and later in life stayed sick a lot. "A Three was a Semi, which a Texan pronounces sem-eye. You had to beware of Semis because you might marry them in a weak minute. Threes had it all put together in looks and style and sophistication. They could drink a lot and dance good and hang out and make conversation. "A Two was a Her. With a capital. If a Semi was tough, a Her was tougher. You might marry the same Her twice. Or three times. Barbara Jane was a Her, or a Two. "And there just had never been a One. Ever.*
It is interesting to note that shortly after “Jurassic Park” came out, Toronto’s new basketball team was named, by popular appeal, the Toronto Raptors.
The team’s mascot is a dinosaur, its logo a dinosaur footprint.
Certainly “raptors” is identified with dinosaurs by a lot of people. Prior to 1993 I doubt most people were familiar with the word.
Purely anecdotal, but I’m convinced that Star Trek: The Next Generation essentially determined how everyone would forevermore pronounce the word “data.” I seem to remember that prior to TNG, people were more or less evenly split between saying “day-ta” and “dat-uh.” Once the show became popular, consensus seemed to solidify on the “day-ta” pronunciation used by Commander Data to refer to himself. Nowadays, I almost never hear anyone say “dat-uh.”