Some of my favorites: Saucebox - as in “Shut your saucebox!” Nosebagger - someone who avoids paying for expensive food at events by bringing their own. (And those of us who bring food because we have to are also nosebaggers.) “Got the morbs” - a bit depressed over something “Shinning around” - moving quickly to hide from someone or something Damfino - Damned if I know Enthusimuzzy - fake enthusiasm Shoddyocracy - people who got rich selling shoddy goods
I think you’re right about these being older than we think. But it did have a resurgence in the 1980s with teenage girl valley accent (Frank Zappa’s daughter I believe). One artifact of this time is that we now have OMG as a surviving text and internetz term.
@ircon96 Yes the dial tone was essential to our mental stability. It meant that we were still in the good hands of the AT&T protectors, and the Russians hadn’t taken out the local cities yet.
@ircon96 OMG- how about the party line! Get on the phone and be talking and some stranger is laughing and commenting at a story. This used to happen when I was a teen who talked on that swatch phone for hours at a time with that cord that had been stretched out halfway down the hallway for privacy…
“Hella” was hella cool!
@BelleGunness wait, is that no longer vogue? I still use it.
@BelleGunness It never went away in California.
@BelleGunness That is from way before the '90s and they still make automotive accessories.
I know talk to the hand went away, but the others are still in steady rotation for me. Am I an old? Hahaha
“W” Whatever
I kind of miss groovy, but that was pre-90s. I still use My Bad, which I think was 90s.
Don’t go there
@oatmeal33
1990s — oh I guess this is a sensitive topic for my friend.
2020s — “that’s OK, I’ll just take an Uber”
Some of my favorites:
Saucebox - as in “Shut your saucebox!”
Nosebagger - someone who avoids paying for expensive food at events by bringing their own. (And those of us who bring food because we have to are also nosebaggers.)
“Got the morbs” - a bit depressed over something
“Shinning around” - moving quickly to hide from someone or something
Damfino - Damned if I know
Enthusimuzzy - fake enthusiasm
Shoddyocracy - people who got rich selling shoddy goods
Yes, these are all from the 1890s.
@rockblossom They need to be revived!
I don’t know about '90s… but in the early-to-mid 1980s there was a phrase I heard often… “Bootcho Nerve”
as in “Boot Your Nerve”
about a year ago I heard someone say it at the local (Waco) Walmart. Yep, I did a literal spit take.
I can’t find any reference to it online and only mid-50 somethings seem to remember it. Perhaps it was a Waco-only thing that you wouldn’t understand.
You asked for an earworm??
Here’s one for ya!! 
@MrGoodGuy The Super Friends did it better.
Let’s take it back to the valley girl 1980s slang…totally bitchin’-grody to the max, gag me with a spoon, like like totally bodacious
@el1c1a Let’s not and say we did.
@el1c1a
That’s from the 1950s or earlier. I was there!
@el1c1a @OldCatLady username checks out.
I think you’re right about these being older than we think. But it did have a resurgence in the 1980s with teenage girl valley accent (Frank Zappa’s daughter I believe). One artifact of this time is that we now have OMG as a surviving text and internetz term.
“Talk to the dial tone” came in handy when you hung up on someone, although kids these days have never even heard a dial tone, so…
@ircon96 Yes the dial tone was essential to our mental stability. It meant that we were still in the good hands of the AT&T protectors, and the Russians hadn’t taken out the local cities yet.
@ircon96 OMG- how about the party line! Get on the phone and be talking and some stranger is laughing and commenting at a story. This used to happen when I was a teen who talked on that swatch phone for hours at a time with that cord that had been stretched out halfway down the hallway for privacy…
Buh Bye!
I voted for Da Bomb, seeing that I still use that phrase
@cbilyak just don’t use it on airplanes.
“Man, these stale $5 pretzels are Da Bomb”
@pmarin I laughed a little too hard at your comment
thanks for that!