80s Awesomeness! ~ 161

WASTOID!!!

AKA a loser.  You may or not remember Emilio Estevez's character Andy in The Breakfast Club slinging this particular piece of insult at the "criminal" John Bender, aka Judd Nelson for wanting to blaze a doobie.  For which he caves to peer pressure and actively participates.  Way to stand by your laurels, Andy.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 156

Narbo!!!

Yup.  It's slang.  Stands for those of the dork/geek/spaz variety that inevitably do something stupid.  I'm pretty sure I've heard that word before in describing something hedonistic.  These two definitions seem rather contradictory since your standard dork probably doesn't do sexy time things in spades.  A narbo in Narbo!

80s Awesomeness! ~ 151

Cornchip!!!

Seriously. This is a slang term from the 80s. From inthe80s.com -

Noun, adj. Started off meaning a punk or new wave look. Later, any slightly avant-garde fashions or hair or music. Mainly Illinois/midwest.

ex. "I love your fluorescent socks, they look awesome with your Gloria Vanderbilts, but aren't you worried they kinda make you look like a cornchip?"

O_o What? Does anyone know the root of this one? Was this a result of one too many AquaNet whip-its? Or is this a pure corn child creation?

80s Awesomeness! ~ 144

Face!!!

As in "you just got faced." Or, you just got dissed or any other synonymous equivalent. Or your more recent "oh snap." Thanks, 80s!

80s Awesomeness! ~ 136

Rabbit Died!!!

You're probably looking at that going WTF? Apparently that was slang for getting pregnant. That's one for the OED. I have no idea. Like tin roof rusted, you probably have to be high and standing on your head to try and connect those etymological dots.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 124

DITZ!!!

Synonymous with airhead, ditz was another verbal spawn of the 80s. Often used against those of the valley persuasion to mean storing larger than normal quantities of air in one's head, leaving little room for a broader range of knowledge. Also making one prone to excessive brain farts.

Brace yourself.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 117

Ignore the shop, focus on the o-rama. That's what I'm getting at. Thanks to the 80s, we now have the suffix "o-rama" added into our repertoire. A suffix that can be tacked onto just about anything: shop-o-rama, swim-o-rama, porn-o-rama, mall-o-rama, hair-o-rama, car-o-rama and so on and so on and so forth.

In it's technical form, the suffix "o-rama" means all encompassing. A food-o-rama is all about the food. Dig? Thanks, 80s, for stuffing us with such eloquent verbiage. Where would I be without the total puke-o-rama?

80s Awesomeness! ~ 111

Poofer -

n., a girl wearing her hair as high as possible, aka Hairbear

I think some visual indicators are all I need for this one -

80s Awesomeness! ~ 105

Dick Year

I kid you not, that was apparently slang back in the 80s. According to the glossary is means a long period of time. Usage: I haven't seen you in a dick year. How the deuce did that one come about? I mean really. Dick year as a unit of measure for time? What about Tit Month or Balls Week? I'm missing the correlation.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 99

Another term you can thank the 80s for providing. Used to describe one that parks their ass on the couch, usually in front of the TV or other boob-like tube, for extended periods of time, the term couch potato has traveled the few ages since and stuck. While not in super heavy use anymore, the term is still majorly relevant in today's culture.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 94

Most Triumphant!!!

Such an eloquent term. So much better than awesome, righteous or bodacious. If something is most triumphant, it rightly can't get any better. I would think the 80s were, well, most triumphant. Right Bill and Ted?

80s Awesomeness! ~ 88

Kicks!!!

Yes. Thanks to the 80s, the glorious slang term, kicks, as in shoes, was birthed. One of the more benign pieces of 80s slang, the term 'kicks' is still around in some parts of the world and used rather regularly. Good for you, slang dude.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 77

Wannabe!!!

Thank the 80s for this phrase. Whether you were a Madonna wannabe, yuppie wannabe, goth wannabe or whatever other wannabe there was, chances were you were some kind of wannabe. Unless you were the anti-wannabe, which only made you fit into their own sub category. Congratulations.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 73

Narc!!!

Yup. You can thank the 80s for giving us this gem that we love to throw around. Dude, don't narc on me! Dude, don't be such a narc. Of course, being a narc usually equates to you getting your ass kicked eleven ways from Sunday, and to one degree or another. Whether you end up with a measly black eye or a new pair of cement shoes, getting called a narc is always derogatory and getting the reputation of a narc will win you no friends.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 65

Jock!!!

Depending on your definition of cool, you were the shit if you were a jock in the 80s. And you can thank the 80s for spawning such a term. I mean, why wouldn't you want to be called the name for the sweaty banana hammock that holds a dude's twig and berries? Totally awesome!

80s Awesomeness! ~ 59

Lame!!!

Dude, totally. A spawn of the 80s, the word 'lame' is used to describe anything not cool. Which, apparently, includes David Hasselhoff's chest hair. Lame.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 50

This Sucks!!!

Believe it or not, this wonderful term was another hell spawn of the 80s. Where would we be without the ability to describe something so loquaciously in the negative? Pretty sucky, don't you think?

80s Awesomeness! ~ 42 + 400 Followers!

Holy shitballs, really? 400 followers? Actually, 401 as of this post. Wow! Thank you all! I hope I live up to it! Now, onto the 80s -

Goth!!!

Yeah, that's right people. The term 'goth' is so totally 80s. Used to describe people that dressed in black and listened to "darker" bands like The Cure (which, when you listen to their music, is more aligned with emo today as opposed to goth), it could be derogatory or complimentary depending on the mouth it comes out of. But whatever it is, the term's transcended time. While goth girls looked like something closer to mainstream Madonna wannabes than the white-faced, black-lipped chicks/dudes of today, the term still meant the same thing. The look's (and the sound's) just evolved.

80s Awesomeness! ~ 31

Barf Me Out!!!

Totally. It you came across something that you didn't like, you'd so say barf me out. For sure. Or Grodie. Gross me out the door. Make me barf. Such eloquent speech, don't you think? And the Valley Girls were the epitome of female back in the 80s. Ah yes. The propriety of barf!

80s Awesomeness! ~ 28

BFF!!!

Oh yeah. That's right. The term that's everywhere now? That I used to use back when I was younger? That even kids and teens use now? Started in the 80s. You're welcome. Totally! So every time you say hi to your BFF, thank the 80s gods for that. Fer sher!