« Food and Shopping | Main | Buddha vs Asian Pear...the ultimate zen smackdown »
July 08, 2005
Top five words of the Wasabi Dumpling Gang
OK so some of the friends I visited last week are members of "The Wasabi Dumpling Gang" or "The Wasabi Sisterhood" (depending on when you joined). The name really doesn't stand for anything except maybe for the fact that we all like Japanese food, and are all, well, let's just say we are women of a certain age (i.e. we remember the movie "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and also stuff like when MTV was NEW and actually showed videos). Anyway, this week we came up with a short list of words a few of which were popular in the 70s and 80s but have now fallen out of fashion with the kids. Let's see if we can revive them.
1. Solid - big ups to Ashford and Simpson for their lyrics (and also their fab hair)
2. Dynamite (pronounced DY-N0-MITE) - Remember J.J. and the magazine?! Dude!
3. Film - although it is now becoming obsolete, Film is still real. You can hold it in your hands or up to the light, where as digital ... kind of hard to put your finger on. This word should be used whenever one would say "that's for real" or "that's so true"
4. Trust - ok, so this isn't really an old word. It's something Roberts said quite recently on the show (S4.16) but I thought it was a cool way of saying "trust me, you can take that to the bank, Film, etc".
5. Word - see also "Wordy McWord". For mad wicked emphasis you can also use "Wordy McWord to the third"!
Posted by lk at July 8, 2005 05:13 PM
Comments
Okay Lisa, I'm going to try these out at school in the fall. I may be deposed and destroyed by teenagers, but it will be worth it to say "wordy mcword to the third"...
Posted by: elizabeth at July 9, 2005 09:27 AM
I once mused to a co-worker who was 10 years younger than me about mimeograph machines. I mentioned to him how kids in my school were happy to volunteer to "run the ditto machine" for the teacher simply to sniff the copies. He had no idea what I was talking about and looked at me like I had three heads.
This is why my friend Dave always says that he can't date a woman who doesn't share the same pop culture references with him. Too much gets lost in the translation.
Posted by: Kelly at July 9, 2005 08:00 AM
Oh My God, mimeograph paper. I can smell it now, too!
Posted by: lk at July 9, 2005 07:22 AM
Man, did you bring back those memories from the pre-teen and teen years. I LOVED "Dynamite" magazine (and J.J. and "Good Times" for that matter). Seeing those covers brought me back to the days of my Dorothy Hamill haircut. My reading material in those days consisted of "Dynamite", "Tiger Beat", "Teen Beat" and Nancy Drew mysteries.
Nick Ashford: the man with the mightest hair and cheekbones in the music business.
Yes, remember when we were in the MTV demographic and then moved to the VH1 "Sunday Brunch" demographic? Now, the only place for us is VH1 Classic and those "We Love the 80s" shows.
I'm all for reviving the words. Film will soon enter the lexicon of generational terms like "mimeograph paper". I can still smell that wet ink...
Posted by: Kelly at July 8, 2005 11:54 PM