# Urban or Slang Greetings over the decades **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 17, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-or-slang-greetings-over-the-decades/453217 "2008-06-17T16:02:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-or-slang-greetings-over-the-decades/453217/21 "2008-06-18T06:10:16Z")
What ho! - 1600 ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-or-slang-greetings-over-the-decades/453217/22 "2008-06-18T07:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] In the '70’s, we had “What’s happening?” I can’t seem to remember much from the '80’s for some reason. In the ‘90’s, we had "How YOU doin’?" I think “Whazzup?” was popular in the 00’s, buoyed by the Budweiser commercials, although we were saying it much earlier. Any other? [/QUOTE] 80’s and early 90’s was mainly word , word up, phat those were the main ones that I remember. Declan ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-or-slang-greetings-over-the-decades/453217/23 "2008-06-18T07:10:48Z")
_gudday, bay_ from 70’s NZ (where _bay_ just means _mate_). Oh, and referring to male acquaintances as _Trev_, a result of the **Fred Dagg** effect. Si [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-or-slang-greetings-over-the-decades/453217.md?page=1)