# "That's so last year" -- the future of catchphrases **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 13, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583 "2003-06-13T15:17:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583/41 "2003-06-16T05:54:13Z")
Listen, I have a good friend in Buffalo and I’m a Bills fan, but I think it’s from 23rd Street in the city. I’ve actually seen sources that say it, and I don’t think many phrases owe their origin to Buffalo. ---
**Author:** ![RahRahMah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@RahRahMah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RahRahMah)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583/42 "2003-06-16T06:52:36Z")
Hella has officially died over here. Sweet used to be huge, every second word it seemed, and I hated it when it started, but I now use it regularily. I don’t know. I think I like it more than cool. Its just a better word. I think its going to be around for a long time. A lot of people say dude every now and then and so do I, but I hate it! I don’t even know where I picked it up, or when. As for “He was like, and then I was like” I ALWAYS to that. Or the alternative “She was like all blah blah blah” I however have never heard anyone say “He goes and then I go” I despise that shiznit thing. Its going soon. Too many lame white kids use it for it to be cool much longer. I don’t know anyone who says word exept as a joke. What ever happend to all that great early ninties crap? Like in the movie Clueless. You know, calling chicks Bettys and guys Baldwins and saying postal a lot. They had TONS of slang then. I think it all died within two years. Although I do hear postal every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583/43 "2003-06-16T07:58:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > **It pleases me that it has become acceptable to say something “sucks”.** The problem is its origin, which is not lost to recent memory. The idea behind “sucks” is that the worst possible thing you could accuse a man of being is homosexual, and that any woman who would perform oral sex was a slut. Nice thoughts, huh? ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583/44 "2003-06-16T14:07:34Z")
I have to interject that I have never, ever head “hella” used by anyone in any context, except on this message board. Sadly, I don’t think the “like” thing will ever die. It’s just too ingrained now for some people. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583/45 "2003-06-16T20:35:08Z")
I say “awesome!” all the time. I mean it somewhat as a joke, but I’ve picked up as standard vocabulary now. **Zing!** is a good one too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-so-last-year-the-future-of-catchphrases/181583.md?page=2)