Totally Radical/Quotes

"''"Never use old slang. Slang, to be enjoyable, must be fresh.""

- Ernest Hemingway, Kansas City (Mo.) Star Manual of Style

""The best part of getting older is gonna be intentionally misusing slang around teenagers just to make them squirm.""

- Xkcd

"It was a gnarly day for extreme-minded dropout Harry Stoner when a totally brutal wipeout left his skin fused with the street. He then somehow got super-strength and became known as Cobblestone."

- Antihero for Hire

"''Three Rad Dudes/ with nothing better to do/ were abducted by the crew/ of the Starship Alpha-2// They're from the planet Q/ Which due to a time loop/ is stuck in '82// They need our heroes to review/ the latest shows and tv news/ and games and movies// We hope you're not confused/ we swear this is all true/ and not the premise to..."

- The Totally Rad Show

"Doctor: I'm trying to be relatable.

Miley: To what, the 1970s?"

- Hannah Montana

"Fred: Every time you turn around they've changed the language! How are we supposed to keep up?

Marie: Oh, don't be such a buzz crusher!

Fred: Wha--?

Black-haired brownie troop girl: Killjoy! Party pooper! Wet blanket!

Fred: That does it!! What was wrong with last year's lingo?

Marie: It was last year's!!

Fred: What happened to hip, hep, jerk, nerd, wimp?

Melissa: Totally random, sir!

Fred: Huh?

Archie: That means, it makes no sense, pop!

Fred: Neither does this conversation!!"

- Archie Comics, "Lingo Lesson"

"Mary Jane Watson: Well pierce my ears and call me drafty!"

- Spider Man #62

"A.R.: You are ripping up so many hellaceous shreds this fierceshitty biznasty is getting so deliriously rudebrazen it... Ok you lost the handle on that sentence."

- Homestuck

"Jessie: (disguised as a Valley Girl) It'll be a radical party! All of the most radical Pokemon trainers will be there!

Ash Ketchum: (to Misty) Do you know anyone who says "radical" anymore?"

- Pokémon, "Battle Aboard the St. Anne"

"This sort of thing is what happens when a bunch of white shut-ins try to be hip. [Beat] And do so with fish."

- 'The Nostalgia Chick, on Shark Tale

""Dude, your slang is so totally bogus and outdated.""

- Noah "Spoony" Antwiler on Party Mania

""Characters are written with the hip slang of 1993 in mind, as interpreted by clueless middle-aged men.""

- Cracked.com

"‘See’ Jonas said to O’Neill. ‘There’s a passage over there which says Ra is a righteous dude and Anubis is bogus’ he declared, pointing to the far wall."

"‘Now I know you’re making this up’ O’Neill responded disbelievingly."

- XSGCOM

"Mom: what viol8s code?

Reg: The fact that you just spelled “violates” as “viol8s” causes me physical pain.

Mom: i txt liek the cool kids"

- Bioware According to Mom

"Seriously, dad, who says "dude" any more?"

- Josh Stevenson, Waterloo Road