There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven’t heard it since.
As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol
As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
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There’s a John Mulaney joke about this
Huh…I can’t find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like “quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected”?
I’m fairly certain it’s in “New In Town”
Cowabunga and tubular!
80s were a good time!
Gnarly, dude.
Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can’t help myself and say “totally tubular my dude!” Lol
Rad!
I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
I say cowabunga all the time…
Bodacious!
Gnarly!
Covfefe
I say this almost daily lol
How?
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Do you mean how I pronounce or why I say it? If the latter, just because it sounds funny to me and it kind of became a running gag.
I meant how do you even pronounce that.
I’ve always said it like “cawv-fee-fee.”
I pronounce as if it were a Spanish word. lol
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Discombobulate
happy ;_;
Heh, I use it everyday
“I wish I was happy…”
me_irl
Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven’t heard it in decades by now.
Bro isn’t playing enough Fire Emblem.
Ditto to frankincense
I’ve seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.
Disestablishmentarianism.
I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot…
“Antidisestablishmentarianism”
(To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Believe it or not, they know this one…! It’s one of the reigning chanps. They have mini competitions with each other seeing who can spell it the fastest. Lol
Lots of fun!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
Phat! As in cool. Haven’t heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
Fleek
Thankfully.
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Information superhighway
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big
truckhighway. It’s a series of tubes.Tubelor.
Cyberspace!
Defenestrate. What a word!
Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven’t heard?
MOIST
Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
I blame How I Met Your Mother
The night was moist…
Keep your starship out of my backyard.
(JN Chaney book reference)
Baud
250k baud or 500k baud?
I write firmware, this is a daily term
I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
I will always love those old modem tones
I love you too.
It’s not a single word though.Hugs from an internet stranger.
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Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)
