To: Willie Green
Amy Heckerling's 1995 hit Clueless introduced our generation to this horrible word, and ever since we have not been able to let go of it.Point of information!
Valley Girls had been totally doing that since, like, nineteen eighty-five. ;-)
20 posted on
02/25/2005 11:42:31 AM PST by
Kretek
To: Kretek
Like, ohmygod, gag me with a spoon.
34 posted on
02/25/2005 11:51:36 AM PST by
-YYZ-
To: Kretek
Use of "like" goes back at least to the 50s.
68 posted on
02/25/2005 12:22:14 PM PST by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
To: Kretek
Valley Girls had been totally doing that since, like, nineteen eighty-five. ;-) Shaggy from Scooby-Doo talked like that in nineteen SEVENTY-five. I bet it started with the beatniks in the 50's, if not before.
Most things we thing of as modern affectations have a very long ancestry in certain subcultures. I think "cool" has been used in the modern sense since the days of the flappers and the Cotton Club back in the 1920's.
-ccm
108 posted on
02/25/2005 12:53:02 PM PST by
ccmay
(Question Diversity)
To: Kretek
Like, you bet me to it. Frank and Moon would be sooo disappointed they didn't leave more of a lasting societal impact with Valley Girl.
142 posted on
02/25/2005 1:42:52 PM PST by
BBell
To: Kretek
Like wow. Some people have been, like doing it, since like nineteen fifty-nine.
182 posted on
02/25/2005 6:15:22 PM PST by
Graymatter
(There are times when the Rule of Law needs an override.)
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