Anitquated phrases are the bomb.

Your spelling is, like, a cry for help.

I read the coolest thing on SLOG.

I have not heard the phrase 'katy bar the door' in a coon's age.

Phrases and slang words come and go, but "cool" seems to be here to stay. People still say it without irony long past its sell-by date. And I'm cool with that.

There are certain advertising catch phrases that enjoy unusually long currency, too (especially with newspaper and magazine headline writers--"You've come a long way, baby," indeed).

the other day my son, who seems to be lost in life at the age of 26 and who i did not raise made a off the cuff remark " im a man " i wanted to ask him , whats is a man.?
and as to any old saying`s , far out, do you want to get stoned, smoke a refer. And how long has it been since some one checked out the bar fly.

1) Cravings are not pain.
2) By the euphemism 'Be a man', I mean you need to exercise some willpower over your cravings, which is the ultimate goal. The drugs are just a crutch, just like the cigarettes were, so you haven't solved the problem.

And actually, the original post was, "I was gonna say be a man and quit cold turkey, but (the big pharmaceuticals who funded the smoking ban so they could sell more quit-smoking drugs to smokers) already have your money. You got suckered." Turns out I technically never said it.

My point was that the reason Big Pharmaceuticals funded smoking bans across the country was because of exactly what you ended up doing, which was going out and buying their quit drugs. You've just helped enable their efforts and motive to create more smoking bans, and I was actually criticising you for that, rather than for finding your cravings "pain"ful.

And BTW, nicotine actually leaves your system completely after only 72 hours. Any cravings after that are a force of psychological habit.

And I can't believe you'd willingly take something that actually gave you hives, even if it was a brand-name issue.

I was just in Sacramento, CA, the state where I heard "hella" first, and though I didn't hear any "hella"s, I must report that "hecka" is alive and well.

Correction on that last paragraph: It was Sean Nelson, not you, Mr. Constant, that got the hives from Wellibutrin. My mistake.

I stand by the remainder of my comment.

I was just thinking the other day that the '80s thing of saying, "I'm serous!" to mean, "I agree with you," has definitely gone the way of the dodo. As far as that goes, most of the '80s surfer lingo has passed from use except as ironic flavor-- "That'd be 'rad.'"

Though I for one still use "awesome" as a descriptor if not an exclamation.

I was going to say that "in a coon's age" and "call a spade a spade" have both fallen from use because people are nervous about the etymology-- but then there's Brian at the top of the string. Though I suspect he was being ironic.

One I got busted for last year was when a coworker mentioned that her boyfriend was Indian and I asked, "Which kind-- dots or feathers?" I sort of understand why she got upset, but when I took the time to think about it more seriously I couldn't actually come up with a meaningful reason why the question was offensive.

Here are a few that are on the brink:
"That's all good."
"Right on?" (The statement that's posed as a question.)
"I know, right?!"
These silly phrases were white hot 5 years ago, and are currently sputtering out.

The other day a friend said he was smoking pot this week "like it was going out of style", which to get all meta, is a phrase that has seemingly gone out of style, as I hadn't heard it in about twenty years.

But Dan, anitquated is a typing error not a spelling error.

I don't know if that's better or worse.