Miss Bassie, I seem to remember reading that you live back east...
With gnarly, rad and dude as favorites, are you sure you didn't grow up out here in the San Fernando Valley?
I live in Oceanside now, but I grew up in Ridgemont High Land. I generally no longer use rad and gnarly, but I don't think I could excise dude from my vocabulary if I wanted to! That shit is too ingrained in my DNA.
turkey is a slang word that will never leave my vocabulary.
I use this on the reg, its classic material. another one on the list-> right on -- always handy, a true standby. chillaxin, for sure. can even be abbreviated down to chillax.
I'd like to hear "fantastic" used a bit more often.
Actually nevermind, that might dilute the meaning, because if someone takes the care in using that word now you KNOW they mean it.
I use this a lot. Its used in the Army[/b] a lot. also fan-fucking-tastic.
Which Army are you talking about?
Salvation Army, of course!
are young GIs and Drill Sergeants not saying FAN-TASTIC anymore?
Do they still say "Ate up like a soup sandwich?" or "11 up, 3 down?" personally, none of those basic-isms never caught on with me, except for FANTASTIC which was just fun to say. That and chucklehead and/or knucklehead is still funny to me. That, and when they called privates "YOU"... it was such a burn for some reason. That, and "brain" and "john wayne". In retrospect, I guess it was all kinda funny how they came up with creative ways to not curse and make you feel dumb at the same time.
Geeked Cold Lampin' Bet (or a'ight-bet) On-the-strength Mad Ish (in substitute for shit)
I still rock the early '90s slang as much as possible. Preferrably around those who have no idea what they mean. It's great to see them and stumble on a response. Followed by (or preceeding) a blank stare.
Ish isn't the greatest, but I always liked the concept of how it came about -- you know, from back in the day when they would reverse the word "shit" in radio edits, so it came out sounding like "ish."
Just a prime example of hip-hop ingenuity that should be embraced.
Ish isn't the greatest, but I always liked the concept of how it came about -- you know, from back in the day when they would reverse the word "shit" in radio edits, so it came out sounding like "ish."
Just a prime example of hip-hop ingenuity that should be embraced.
We used to say Duck in 1979-81. I loved that term.
What up duck?
Or can you put that in a sentence so as to illustrate its proper usage?
this is a funny thread. that reminds me of some shit me and my brother used to do. everytime a weird car would come through our neighborhood (we lived in a pretty rural area so it wasn't too many cars) we would yell "pig nosed turkey" and push back our noses like a pig. i have no idea why we did that! it's funny to think about now but back then it just made sense.
i had a friend in high school who had the crazy slangometry, shit like 'jack' as a negative term: that dude's a jack. also, when something was bad in a weird way, it was 'shell' or he's 'shellin'
i always liked writer's slang: vamped, crushed, rack, toy
I say this easily 20 times a day. Probably the word I abuse most right now. Other seriously out-moded slang I'm guilty of using: "On the level", "Spot on", "Yoink"
Proof positive that I am a giant nerd...as if the soulstrut thing weren't enough.
spidey impressed the first go round. although everyone is coming with some molten lava actual fact.
of course i have my own form of slanguistics. but generally i use and would like to hear:
snoops for $ slammin hypo or hype scarf some grimace proportions float an air biscuit doorknob i'm glad 'fly' is back n effect catch wreck pantywaist far-out heavy devastating homepiss copasthetic hunkidori (ouch) troop houseshoes on the ultimate phenomenem instead of phenomenon (see Devastating Crush Money)
I'd like to hear "fantastic" used a bit more often.
Actually nevermind, that might dilute the meaning, because if someone takes the care in using that word now you KNOW they mean it.
I use this a lot. Its used in the Army[/b] a lot. also fan-fucking-tastic.
Which Army are you talking about?
Salvation Army, of course!
are young GIs and Drill Sergeants not saying FAN-TASTIC anymore?
Do they still say "Ate up like a soup sandwich?" or "11 up, 3 down?" personally, none of those basic-isms never caught on with me, except for FANTASTIC which was just fun to say. That and chucklehead and/or knucklehead is still funny to me. That, and when they called privates "YOU"... it was such a burn for some reason. That, and "brain" and "john wayne". In retrospect, I guess it was all kinda funny how they came up with creative ways to not curse and make you feel dumb at the same time.
You're right on like 99% of the above, but I just don't hear that word fantastic being tossed around a lot. A word like 'Outstanding' I hear/heard a lot over the years but never 'fantastic'. Well you were in like 15 years ago, so.............
I'd like to hear "fantastic" used a bit more often.
Actually nevermind, that might dilute the meaning, because if someone takes the care in using that word now you KNOW they mean it.
I use this a lot. Its used in the Army[/b] a lot. also fan-fucking-tastic.
Which Army are you talking about?
Salvation Army, of course!
are young GIs and Drill Sergeants not saying FAN-TASTIC anymore?
Do they still say "Ate up like a soup sandwich?" or "11 up, 3 down?" personally, none of those basic-isms never caught on with me, except for FANTASTIC which was just fun to say. That and chucklehead and/or knucklehead is still funny to me. That, and when they called privates "YOU"... it was such a burn for some reason. That, and "brain" and "john wayne". In retrospect, I guess it was all kinda funny how they came up with creative ways to not curse and make you feel dumb at the same time.
You're right on like 99% of the above, but I just don't hear that word fantastic being tossed around a lot. A word like 'Outstanding' I hear/heard a lot over the years but never 'fantastic'. Well you were in like 15 years ago, so.............
I had friends a few years back who were getting married and were going to change both their last names to fantastik - guess they couldn't decide whether she should take his name or not and thought this was a good compromise. Needless to say, Mr. and Mrs. Fantastik chickened out in the end...
I'd like to hear "fantastic" used a bit more often.
Actually nevermind, that might dilute the meaning, because if someone takes the care in using that word now you KNOW they mean it.
I use this a lot. Its used in the Army[/b] a lot. also fan-fucking-tastic.
Which Army are you talking about?
Salvation Army, of course!
are young GIs and Drill Sergeants not saying FAN-TASTIC anymore?
Do they still say "Ate up like a soup sandwich?" or "11 up, 3 down?" personally, none of those basic-isms never caught on with me, except for FANTASTIC which was just fun to say. That and chucklehead and/or knucklehead is still funny to me. That, and when they called privates "YOU"... it was such a burn for some reason. That, and "brain" and "john wayne". In retrospect, I guess it was all kinda funny how they came up with creative ways to not curse and make you feel dumb at the same time.
You're right on like 99% of the above, but I just don't hear that word fantastic being tossed around a lot. A word like 'Outstanding' I hear/heard a lot over the years but never 'fantastic'. Well you were in like 15 years ago, so.............
I had friends a few years back who were getting married and were going to change both their last names to fantastik - guess they couldn't decide whether she should take his name or not and thought this was a good compromise. Needless to say, Mr. and Mrs. Fantastik chickened out in the end...
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Miss Bassie, I seem to remember reading that you live back east...
With gnarly, rad and dude as favorites, are you sure you didn't grow up out here in the San Fernando Valley?
I live in Oceanside now, but I grew up in Ridgemont High Land. I generally no longer use rad and gnarly, but I don't think I could excise dude from my vocabulary if I wanted to! That shit is too ingrained in my DNA.
In writing I'm also a fan of YEESH!
similar vein: Break fool/breakin' fool.
Sounds totally rude but is ever so appropriate in all sorts of circumstances (most especially driving)!
I use this on the reg, its classic material.
another one on the list-> right on -- always handy, a true standby.
chillaxin, for sure. can even be abbreviated down to chillax.
and last but not least... "the tits".
as in, "yo, that shit is the tits, fam!"
Salvation Army, of course!
are young GIs and Drill Sergeants not saying FAN-TASTIC anymore?
Do they still say "Ate up like a soup sandwich?" or "11 up, 3 down?"
personally, none of those basic-isms never caught on with me, except for FANTASTIC which was just fun to say. That and chucklehead and/or knucklehead is still funny to me. That, and when they called privates "YOU"... it was such a burn for some reason. That, and "brain" and "john wayne". In retrospect, I guess it was all kinda funny how they came up with creative ways to not curse and make you feel dumb at the same time.
- spidey
EX.
Those liverppol boys sure played a mean game of footie, what!
Suppose I quit my job and we live happily off the land in the countryside, what?
Cold
Lampin'
Bet (or a'ight-bet)
On-the-strength
Mad
Ish (in substitute for shit)
I still rock the early '90s slang as much as possible. Preferrably around those who have no idea what they mean. It's great to see them
Illy.
I would never ever ever use this word in real life. or on the internet. except for soulstrut's ish about rackords.
Just a prime example of hip-hop ingenuity that should be embraced.
this is a funny thread. that reminds me of some shit me and my brother used to do. everytime a weird car would come through our neighborhood (we lived in a pretty rural area so it wasn't too many cars) we would yell "pig nosed turkey" and push back our noses like a pig. i have no idea why we did that! it's funny to think about now but back then it just made sense.
oh and i'd like to hear the word def come back.
i always liked writer's slang: vamped, crushed, rack, toy
A good friend of mine just sent me an e-mail from his 2nd day on a 4 month trip to Chile. All it said was:
"Wow. Heineken 50 cents a litre. WHAT!"
It's not slang, since it's an old english word. But I'd love to hear "Vex/Vex'd/Vexing" way more...
See, we had 'crowns' at my high school...light rap on the skull with the middle knuckles.
"Receive your crown!"
I say this easily 20 times a day. Probably the word I abuse most right now. Other seriously out-moded slang I'm guilty of using: "On the level", "Spot on", "Yoink"
Proof positive that I am a giant nerd...as if the soulstrut thing weren't enough.
What a "jitbag"
"booking" as in running really fast in a hurry. Like we were "booking" from the cops the other night.
anyone? Granted they are from Mookeville...can you say insular?
of course i have my own form of slanguistics. but generally i use and would like to hear:
snoops for $
slammin
hypo or hype
scarf some grimace proportions
float an air biscuit
doorknob
i'm glad 'fly' is back n effect
catch wreck
pantywaist
far-out
heavy
devastating
homepiss
copasthetic
hunkidori (ouch)
troop
houseshoes
on the ultimate
phenomenem instead of phenomenon (see Devastating Crush Money)
etc.
You're right on like 99% of the above, but I just don't hear that word fantastic being tossed around a lot. A word like 'Outstanding' I hear/heard a lot over the years but never 'fantastic'.
Well you were in like 15 years ago, so.............
I had friends a few years back who were getting married and were going to change both their last names to fantastik - guess they couldn't decide whether she should take his name or not and thought this was a good compromise. Needless to say, Mr. and Mrs. Fantastik chickened out in the end...
Like, "Kobe Bryant put up 81 points, that dude is money!
or, "What up money!"
My old ass never let go of "money".
"Money is nice."
lately it's all about spanish slang.. Juevon is my slng right now.
Bamma. as in: "that party sucked. what a bunch of bammas." I guess it is still in use around here. but I really wish it would catch on beyond here.
Carried. similar to "dissed." "that bamma just got straight carrried!" They don't really say this here anymore, I don't think, but I like it.
I always though Bama/Bamma was short for Country Bumpkins by the way of AlaBAMA?