a new school year, a new vocabulary
19:33 on Friday, September 26, 2003 • 3 responses
At the beginning of the school term, there really isn’t any better place to be than the bus. Examples from previous quarters can be found here and here.
Yesterday on the bus I heard two terms which I’d never heard before: ‘likest’ and ‘mad basting’.
I can only imagine that ‘likest’ is the superlative form of ‘like’—so instead if saying “I was all the way like stoked, dude”, one would say “I was likest stoked, dude”. It’s a real timesaver, this ‘likest’ term. Think of it as a contraction for “like” and “most”. Think of it as contraction of at least one California teenager’s brain.
And in regards to ‘mad basting’, the guy sitting behind me used the term twice, and to my knowledge, not in regards to vindictive grilling or roasting cuts of meat. Once he used it referring to getting high on pot, and once it was used to describe a scene in a recent movie, which as far as I could tell, had nothing to do with narcotics. If this person is trying to introduce some new vocabulary, I doubt his particular contribution will get very far. Mostly because it makes no sense. Whatsoever.
Jesus H. Christ I likest hate this state. I hope that once I leave, there’s a real big earthquake that makes all mad basters shark bait.
Emphasis on the ‘once I leave’.
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