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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I'd heard the Ohio one from a studio intern last year, and it really took me a while to unpack.
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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I would be happy to never hear "bruh" again.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I am less than fond of “meh”.
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Joseph Vecchio
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Posted: 29 July 2025 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Kids today wit da hair and da clothes and da hippin' and da hoppin'
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Bill Collins
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Posted: 30 July 2025 at 12:33am | IP Logged | 5 post reply
It was not lost on me that Stan called The Silver Surfer
Norrin Radd when "Rad" was a surfer dude term.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 30 July 2025 at 12:50am | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Woah. Bill, you just blew my mind
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Michael Penn
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>> ...the famous Z-Boys of Dogtown appear to have invented rad in the second half of the seventies. [...] In early skateboarding vernacular, radical usually referenced tricks or someone’s bravura (killer) performance — “a radical air,” “a radical session” — or meant crazy, wild, edgy, unplanned, a precursor to modern skateboarding’s “sick.”<<
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Doug Centers
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Posted: 31 July 2025 at 12:14am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
I heard "deadass" from a twenty something person recently.
It took a minute for me to realize it was a substitute for "seriously".
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 31 July 2025 at 1:39am | IP Logged | 9 post reply
Wild seems to have crept into an almost ubiquitous usage among a younger generation than mine.

And fire is another one I've noticed. It's wild...
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