I remember 'totes'.

Every once in a while, a reporter 'discovers' their social locale's vernacular, concludes that aren't a reporter but an ethnographer, and declares a generational language revolution.

There was a lot of us who didn't use slang. So much of it was on t.v. though, you'd come away thinking it everyone was using Surfer slang.

There was one word that drove me nuts though, and so many of us were guilty of using it. It was dude. My best friend at the time decide to call he dude. I said please don't "dude me". When I referred to him as dude in every sentance over a few pints it magically stopped the next day at work.

Total tangent but: one piece of LOL I've been noting lately is Gen-Xers talking about how "kids these days" are too mainstream and too pro-establishment and are not rebellious enough. Where's their hate for authority? Where's their angry edgy music? Where's their drug use?

Rhetoric? It's just a linguistic analysis.

Totally shredded that. Ripped it up phat!

Tubular, dudes!

That was sick, bro!