# 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:** 3
**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, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/41 "2005-02-11T14:30:00Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I’m old, and I don’t remember it. I hope you’re not calling 30 old. 😃 Hardly. _Twitchin’_ was early California surfer slang, circa 1964. That’s old. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/42 "2005-02-11T14:32:58Z")
Alonzo, you realize that you are tilting at windmills here, right? If I were to meet you, should I expect you to speak like the Cro-Magnons at Alta Mira? Or perhaps like their great-granparents? You would sound much like the hairy guys in _Clan of the Cave Bear_, right? I mean Original Speech is Right and Proper Speech, isn’t it? You scoff at those language-torturing Johnny-come-latelies like Geoffrey Chaucer, don’t you? ---
**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, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/43 "2005-02-11T14:36:32Z")
Dis thread put nuff mile on I and I’s sock. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1 Booyakashah! Skill! Yo! Coming next: Somebody pits Ali G. Which was old about 20 minutes after it first broadcast. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/44 "2005-02-11T15:06:15Z")
You do realize that awesome has been used in this improper way for at least 25 years, right? What are you going to bitch about next? The way MTV plays that stupid montage with the guy on the moon to that instramental song because they don’t have enough videos to play? Dunt Da-Dunt Da-Da-Da Dunt! ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/45 "2005-02-11T15:30:52Z")
I think the improper usage is the shit. ---
**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, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/46 "2005-02-11T15:36:09Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > I think the improper usage is the shit. Shiznit, not shit. Daniel ---
**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, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/47 "2005-02-11T16:27:13Z")
Shizzle! Peace out, P-Bizzle. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/48 "2005-02-11T16:29:20Z")
Peace, man! English is, like, all about the fluidity of meaning in words, man. Like, semantic weakening has been going on for centuries, man! Peace, yo! ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/49 "2005-02-11T16:40:12Z")
Well, man, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. ---
**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, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/50 "2005-02-11T16:48:06Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Hardly. _Twitchin’_ was early California surfer slang, circa 1964. That’s old. California surfer slang? I come from a place where we put toboggans on our heads. ---
**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, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/51 "2005-02-11T16:53:14Z")
[Jason Jesse] OH my GOSH, the Bowl. INSANE!![JJ] Heinously, like Gnarly, man. Streets on Fire is a fucking AWESOME film. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/52 "2005-02-11T16:59:14Z")
I still say most of the trendy things I’ve picked up over the years. Things are still totally tubular (damn you, **cricetus** , I wanted to be the first to use that!), awesome and totally awesome, most excellent, rad and radical, cool, both far and pharm out, groovy, bitchin’ and twitchin’. Hell, things are still nifty, spiffy, neato and keen. I also will be somewhere directly, or reckon I can do that, or am fixin’ to do something. And, by the way, are you fuckin’ high? Slang, like the poor, will always be with us. Learn to embrace it–love the slang. ---
**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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/53 "2005-02-11T17:35:14Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > [Jason Jesse] OH my GOSH, the Bowl. INSANE!![JJ] > > Heinously, like Gnarly, man. Streets on Fire is a fucking AWESOME film. If you’re thinking of the movie I’m thinking of, that would be [Streets **of** Fire](http://imdb.com/title/tt0088194/). 52 posts into this thread and nobody has mentioned [the man](http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=439) who made awesome AWESOME, Baby! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/54 "2005-02-11T20:05:29Z")
I use awesome. What’s sadder? I use “fab.” “Ooh, that’d be fab.” Also, “super.” “That’s super!” It’s sad to be me. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/55 "2005-02-11T21:21:39Z")
The only word whose meaning I think is worth fighting for is “literally”. I’m a well educated 31-year old, and I grew up using “awesome” as a synonym for “fantastic”, “good”, “great”, etc. That ship has long since sailed. ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/56 "2005-02-11T23:09:08Z")
You guys _swear_ like this thread is awesome…really though, it’s hella lame. Der OP ist eine lahme Ente. YEAH, lame duck! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/57 "2005-02-12T02:17:57Z")
I grimace when I hear the words “genius” and “brilliant” bandied about, but the latter isn’t quite as bad considering it appears to be the slang equivalent of “slightly above average” across the pond. But awesome can peacefully get coopted, as the antediluvian meaning of awesome can easily be invoked with the much less corruptible version, “awe-inspiring”. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/58 "2005-02-12T03:03:11Z")
This thread is DOPE! (good). It’s completely SICK! (also good). ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/59 "2005-02-12T03:47:00Z")
Just to resurrect this awesome thread, dead since noon, Some people are easily awed. I could care more. RIP ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/60 "2005-02-12T11:09:43Z")
> [@Cinnamon Girl](#): > > If you’re thinking of the movie I’m thinking of, that would be [Streets **of** Fire](http://imdb.com/title/tt0088194/). > > 52 posts into this thread and nobody has mentioned [the man](http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=439) who made awesome AWESOME, Baby! Fair does. Been a while since I saw it. INSANE! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538.md?page=4)