Dig it! When the last time you said “far out”?

rickenvox

rickenvox

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As in “far out man, I dig your sandals.”

On a related note, was the expression “out of sight” a response to far out? Like out of sight is the most far out you could be?

If this is common knowledge I was not informed. I just figured that out all on my own.

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rickenvox said:
As in “far out man, I dig your sandals.”

On a related note, was the expression “out of sight” a response to far out? Like out of sight is the most far out you could be?

If this is common knowledge I was not informed. I just figured that out all on my own.

Heavy.


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I tend to say those out of date terms frequently, but usually in an ironic way.

"Um... I dented the car today."

"Awesome." :annoyed:

"And the cat puked on the rug.... I didn't have time to clean it up."

"groovy." :facepalm:

"Can my mom stay with us.... for a month."

"Like... Oh my gawd... that would be... like... Tubular...."


(I've never said that last one... but it's ready to rock.) :tongue:
 
baimun said:
I tend to say those out of date terms frequently, but usually in an ironic way.

"Um... I dented the car today."

"Awesome." :annoyed:

"And the cat puked on the rug.... I didn't have time to clean it up."

"groovy." :facepalm:

"Can my mom stay with us.... for a month."

"Like... Oh my gawd... that would be... like... Tubular...."


(I've never said that last one... but it's ready to rock.) :tongue:
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Good ol' Moon Unit Zappa
 
jp_nyc said:
People stopped saying “far out” before I was born, so I never picked it up.
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people actually still say it. It was popular for a while amongst people in their mid thirties to mid forties now. Semi ironic but not really.


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rickenvox said:
He mixed surfer with valley girl on the last one. Valley girls didn’t say tubular. Or stoked for that matter.


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If I recall, it was the exact language Moon Unit was using at the time.
I liked Dweezles MTV show. He would be a wise ass and jam on his bright green guitar.
 
When I met Professor Goodfeels while playing Fallout 4.

 
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Andrew Sak said:
If I recall, it was the exact language Moon Unit was using at the time.
I liked Dweezles MTV show. He would be a wise ass and jam on his bright green guitar.
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So I’ve actually been exposed to past scholarly research on valley and surfer speak in California as a part of my grad program in linguistics. I could tell you every little detail but your eyes would probably roll back into your head from boredom.


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It slips out from time to time. It's organic when it does happen so hopefully it doesn't sound like an affectation.
 
rickenvox said:
So I’ve actually been exposed to past scholarly research on valley and surfer speak in California as a part of my grad program in linguistics. I could tell you every little detail but your eyes would probably roll back into your head from boredom.

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Oh shit, she did say tubular!
 
rickenvox said:
So I’ve actually been exposed to past scholarly research on valley and surfer speak in California as a part of my grad program in linguistics. I could tell you every little detail but your eyes would probably roll back into your head from boredom.


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I studied it on the streets. I'm not too far from The Valley, and I grew up in that era. The Vals were dispised at the local beaches for at least a few years. The worst insult you could receive back then was to be called a 'Val'. That was before the song.
 
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Yes, Far Out is the precursor to Outa Sight.

Tubular comes from The Tubes live shows. For Halloween and New Years, there was a costume contest with prizes for 1) most exotic 2) most erotic and 3) most tubular.
 
Andrew Sak said:
I studied it on the streets. I'm not too far from The Valley, and I grew up in that era. The Vals were dispised at the local beaches for at least a few years. The worst insult you could receive back then was to be called a 'Val'. That was before the song.
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Yes well I studied the surfer speak at Huntington Beach, in my case at least a decade before valley speak (yes, which we all heard before Zappa’s song). Tubular, being a feature of a wave, goes way back before my time. That’s why I was surprised to look it up just now in the valley girl lyrics. Quite a few terms in that song borrowed from surfers.

By the way, the linguists who studied this interviewed enough people to trace it back to specific high schools where it all started. So they studied the people who studied it on the streets.
 
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Yes, Far Out is the precursor to Outa Sight.

Tubular comes from The Tubes live shows. For Halloween and New Years, there was a costume contest with prizes for 1) most exotic 2) most erotic and 3) most tubular.
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I would venture to guess it's from getting tubed at the local beaches.
 
rickenvox said:
Yes well I studied the surfer speak at Huntington Beach, in my case at least a decade before valley speak (yes, which we all heard before Zappa’s song). Tubular, being a feature of a wave, goes way back before my time. That’s why I was surprised to look it up just now in the valley girl lyrics. Quite a few terms in that song borrowed from surfers.


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I grew up with hardcore surfers that looked like Spicoli.
So you know how those in Huntington felt about the 'Vals'. They were seen as neon colored wearing litter bugs. Posers.
 
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