Surf’s Up, Dude: Cowabunga
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published 04/01/2008
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SummaryThe mission lies before us: how are we, the American people, going to come together so that “cowabunga” is reinvigorated into mainstream conversation. It was not too terribly long ago, maybe 15 years, that this delightfully lighthearted interjection tickled the ears of various pop-culture prone children. Yet, it seems that this wonderful English/Indian term has fallen off the tongues of many today. The word hit its stride in the 1980s and early ‘90s. I fear that stride is long behind us, never to be heard from again. However, a select few, when this four syllable interjection reaches their ears, can still appreciate it.
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- The exact word 'cowabunga' probably did not involve much thought behind it.
- Thunderbird mostly began sentences with the syllables.
- As the show moved on, cowabunga became almost exclusively the catch-phrase.
- The word also reached ears on the the Fox series The Simpsons.
- This word is rarely said on it's own without a person to whom it's directed towards.
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