wason@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoNever change Lemmylemmy.worldimagemessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1886arrow-down120file-text
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minus-squarecomrade19@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up53·7 months agoSo that’s how it happens. I thought I was getting old when I had to look up ‘based’ on urban dictionary.
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoThank god for that website, I can’t imagine being an aging millennial in 1980 with all the kids talking about “radical” this and “cowabunga” that and not have anything to look up.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 months ago“Cowabunga” shouldn’t have been a mystery to them, at least, because it originates from Howdy Doody in 1949.
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 months agoWow. I totally thought it was just a Ninja Turtles thing. Thanks for that info.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 months agoNinja Turtles got it from 60’s surfer slang (since that’s how Michelangelo speaks) and gave it new life for a few years.
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoPretty based of you to admit.
So that’s how it happens. I thought I was getting old when I had to look up ‘based’ on urban dictionary.
Thank god for that website, I can’t imagine being an aging millennial in 1980 with all the kids talking about “radical” this and “cowabunga” that and not have anything to look up.
Twas a tubular time.
“Cowabunga” shouldn’t have been a mystery to them, at least, because it originates from Howdy Doody in 1949.
Wow. I totally thought it was just a Ninja Turtles thing. Thanks for that info.
Ninja Turtles got it from 60’s surfer slang (since that’s how Michelangelo speaks) and gave it new life for a few years.
Pretty based of you to admit.