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"Never use old slang. Slang, to be enjoyable, must be fresh."
—Ernest Hemingway, Kansas City (Mo.) Star Manual of Style
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"The best part of getting older is gonna be intentionally misusing slang around teenagers just to make them squirm."
—Xkcd
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It was a gnarly day for extreme-minded dropout Harry Stoner when a totally brutal wipeout left his skin fused with the street. He then somehow got super-strength and became known as Cobblestone.
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Three Rad Dudes/ with nothing better to do/ were abducted by the crew/ of the Starship Alpha-2// They're from the planet Q/ Which due to a time loop/ is stuck in '82// They need our heroes to review/ the latest shows and tv news/ and games and movies// We hope you're not confused/ we swear this is all true/ and not the premise to...
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Doctor: I'm trying to be relatable. |
Fred: Every time you turn around they've changed the language! How are we supposed to keep up? —Archie Comics, "Lingo Lesson"
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Mary Jane Watson: Well pierce my ears and call me drafty!
—Spider-Man #62
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A.R.: You are ripping up so many hellaceous shreds this fierceshitty biznasty is getting so deliriously rudebrazen it... Ok you lost the handle on that sentence.
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Jessie: (disguised as a Valley Girl) It'll be a radical party! All of the most radical Pokemon trainers will be there! —Pokémon, "Battle Aboard the St. Anne"
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This sort of thing is what happens when a bunch of white shut-ins try to be hip. [Beat] And do so with fish.
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"Dude, your slang is so totally bogus and outdated."
—Noah "Spoony" Antwiler on Party Mania
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"Characters are written with the hip slang of 1993 in mind, as interpreted by clueless middle-aged men."
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‘See’ Jonas said to O’Neill. ‘There’s a passage over there which says Ra is a righteous dude and Anubis is bogus’ he declared, pointing to the far wall. |
Mom: what viol8s code? |
Seriously, dad, who says "dude" any more?
—Josh Stevenson, Waterloo Road
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anon1: >Heck yes! — from /tg/
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