Thursday, September 18, 2008

bring 'em back!

America, please bring back the following expressions:

SINCERE
  1. Making love [see Alt85]*
  2. Man/woman [vs. guy/girl—see Fashion Futurist]

[POST]IRONIC
  1. Yabba-dabba-doo [e.g., "Wanna grab one more drink?" "Yabba-dabba-doo"—and but N.B.: should never be said with an exclamation point: imagine it in sort of an almost bored-sounding, Matthew-McConaughey-in-Dazed & Confused voice]
  2. Cowabunga [see "Yabba-dabba-doo"; this one, though, is more flexible and open to enthusiastic delivery and may certainly be used with an exclamation point—basically just a badly needed alternative to "Cool!" and "Awesome!"]
  3. Schwing! [both in its original usage and also just as a general expression of excitement—a synonym maybe more for "Sweet!" (which I've never been able to use without severe discomfort similar in substantive ways to—and maybe actually responsible for—acid reflux)]
Please also bring back video games like Q*bert and Ms. Pac-Man. And will you quit it with the goddamned commercials in movie theaters, already? I mean, come on!


* I'm actually not so sure about this one. But all the others—I've never been so sure about anything in my entire life.

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