# NO! – it is not AWESOME **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 11, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538 "2005-02-11T04:30:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/21 "2005-02-11T10:32:03Z")
The OP was terrible. Oh, wait, no it wasn’t, it was nice. No, that won’t do either. It was crap. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/22 "2005-02-11T10:45:58Z")
Nobody tell him what we use ‘terrific’ for these days 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/23 "2005-02-11T11:35:51Z")
> [@ntucker](#): > > That rant was absolutely _fantastic_. Why stop there? Life can be fun when you demand that words stop changing their meanings. The rant was tremendous. (I trembled at it.) It was terrific. (It caused feelings of fear) It was brilliant. (It was kind of shiny.) It was stunning. (It rendered me unconscious.) It was great. (I found it large and coarse.) It was nice. (But above all it was foolish.) ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/24 "2005-02-11T11:56:54Z")
Paraphrasing Eddie Izzard – “One day you guys [Americans] will put a man on the star closest to the sun. ‘What’s it like?’ ‘It’s awsome!’ ‘What, like a hot dog?’” ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/25 "2005-02-11T12:03:52Z")
Why stop there? That car is _cool_. Better get a block warmer. It may not start. That girl is _hot_. Take her temperature. We may have to go to the doctor. That guy is so _gay_. Good to see him in high spirits. He’s been rather down lately. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/26 "2005-02-11T12:21:44Z")
Radical. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/27 "2005-02-11T12:50:21Z")
Gnarly, dude. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/28 "2005-02-11T12:50:42Z")
But what about Awesome To The Max?! ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/29 "2005-02-11T12:57:04Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > But what about Awesome To The Max?! It’s out there. It’s just out there. It’s like, radical, in a tubular kind of a way. But most of all, it’s out there. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/30 "2005-02-11T13:15:55Z")
Any old folks remember when _twitchin’_ was the fashionable superlative? ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/31 "2005-02-11T13:21:17Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Paraphrasing Eddie Izzard – “One day you guys [Americans] will put a man on the star closest to the sun. ‘What’s it like?’ ‘It’s awsome!’ ‘What, like a hot dog?’” Damn! You beat me to that. I guess I’ll just have to comment on the awesomely awesome-ness of this thread then. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/32 "2005-02-11T13:21:35Z")
> [@Alonzo John Blitz](#): > > I’m cool with that. Fuckin’ A. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/33 "2005-02-11T13:23:40Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Any old folks remember when _twitchin’_ was the fashionable superlative? I’m old, and I don’t remember it. I hope you’re not calling 30 old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/34 "2005-02-11T13:57:30Z")
> [@Alonzo John Blitz](#): > > I’m cool with that. Pretty much. Other people have already pointed this out, but **no you’re not**. Glaciers are cool. A tall glass of iced lemonade is cool. A cadaver buried in the wintry garden is cool. You’re 98.6 Fahrenheit, and that’s not cool. Nor are you “pretty,” much. Pretty means beautiful; pulchritudinous; attractive; ocularly quite satisfactory. It doesn’t mean “somewhat.” Words never change their meaning. Their definitions were forged in the heart of a fiery star, aeons before humanity crawled out of the primordial mud, and on July 17, 1837, around teatime, we finally discovered the last definition of an English word. Certainly people have, since the Day of Definitions, tried to counterfeit their own meanings for words. Such people are at best misguided fools and at worst dangerous radicals attempting to undermine the sanctity of the proven definitions of our most treasured language. I wholeheartedly applaud your cavil, with the two reservations mentioned above. Wicked OP! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/35 "2005-02-11T14:10:11Z")
_raises hand_ I have a question. OK, what if you’re, like, a bubble boy or some shit? You know, like Brendan Fraser in “Blast From the Past” only more sheltered, and for longer? Or what if you’re, like, you know, Brendan Fraser from “Encino Man,” or Tim Allen’s kid from “Jungle 2 Jungle,” or maybe even Brendan Fraser again from “George of the Jungle,” or even Christopher Lambert from “Greystoke?” Anyway, you get where I’m going with the “sheltered” part. So let’s say you’re all sheltered and shit, and then the explorers find you and bring you back to civilization, right? And let’s say, like, the first thing you see, right? Is this, like, I dunno, microwave oven making some Croissant pockets, right? So the freezing cold things go into the little cave, which LIGHTS UP!!! Holy shit! And mere minutes later, it’s PIPING HOT!!! Burns Bomba’s tongue! With (gasp) NO FIRE!!! Now, I’m going to assume that “awe” is one of a mix of emotions our little feral dude feels, right? So have we empirically proven that Croissant pockets are awesome? because I totally think they are, dude. (this is just a long-winded way of saying, "who are you to define ‘awe,’ for the rest of us, goddammit?) ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/36 "2005-02-11T14:14:13Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > Damn! You beat me to that. I guess I’ll just have to comment on the awesomely awesome-ness of this thread then. > [@LifeOnWry](#): > > An awesome OP indeed. > > Awesome like a BILLION hotdogs, sir. I beat you BOTH to it. But did anybody notice? No. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/37 "2005-02-11T14:17:38Z")
Totally bitchin’ there dude! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/38 "2005-02-11T14:20:47Z")
I say this far too much actually, but I like it. As an aside, round at a friends house the other week, The Simpsons came on TV. He said 'They should retitle this programme ‘The Awesomes’. I agree with him. Tough break Whoa Yes Way! Schwing! Dude sweet bling aksing youse guys booyah! ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/39 "2005-02-11T14:25:03Z")
This thread is wicked keen. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/40 "2005-02-11T14:28:04Z")
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