grunge speak poll

kneejerk vote would have been for flippity flop but instead went for harsh realm

big bag of bloatation ... b/c it's damn near unpronounceable and makes absolutely no sense (much less its stated meaning).

swingin' on the flippity flop

I mean...just try saying it out loud

Shortly after the release of The Baffler's story, some people in Seattle began selling and wearing t-shirts with the words "lamestain" and "harsh realm" printed in the same font as the famous banner of the Times.

lol would wear one of these

lamestain is kinda ... neat

I could have seen lead vocalist of Seaweed calling someone a lamestain

cob nobbler

"harsh realm" is easily the most immortal of these imo

Nobler, no doubt

whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the plats and kickers of outrageous lamestains or to rock on against a sea of wack slacks

A+

iirc, the NYT got the name of Sub Pop wrong in the sidebar and called them Caroline records... We lol'd when we read it.

lol @ NYT honestly thinking anyone under the age of [insert any age] would say "swingin' on the flippity-flop"

didn't they also get punked wr2 alleged williamsburg hipster slang 10 years ago?!?

you gotta imagine paulie shore saying all of these

i've actually used cob nobbler irl. it's just too funny not to use.

whether 'tis nobbler in the cob...

[apologies to some dude]

i've actually used cob nobbler irl. it's just too funny not to use.

several of these seem to have endured: esp cob nobbler and lamestain. wasn't harsh realm a TV show for a while?

It was a comic then a TV show?
IIRC 'lamestain' entered into semi-real non-ironic actual use.

('semi-real' and 'non-ironic' are of course slang terms that all the hip kids down the mall are using nowadays)

examples:
"Dude, I got completely drunk last night, tightrope-walked along the edge of a 20 foot high balcony, and nearly fell off. It was semi-real."
"That new Justin Bieber album is totally non-ironic!"

"Wack Slacks" because slacks seems like the kind of word the NY Times might actually use to refer to pants. A nuanced bit of trolling there, if so.

Would be interested if someone punked them re: Williamsburg hipster slang.

I remember this one:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/02/seven_second_de.html

It's all about cob nobbler. It just sounds so Shakespearian. (like codswollop)

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Wow, I am so uncool, I have been using some of these in everyday discourse.

I got a girl to say cob nobbler on web cam once

never heard anybody say any of these, except for Rock On, I guess

lamestain

Have never heard anyone say 2/3 of these, esp wack slacks?!

rock on
cob nobbler
score
dish

are all things i have heard

i even noted the use of dish as recently as last week, but it was not within a grungey context whatsoever.

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Wack slacks were in my dream last night!

tom-tom club was robbed

Ha, that's the one I voted for because it just sounded the best

Just about replicated this poll rn. Glad I checked first. I have no idea how I missed this at the time. I'm such a lamestain.

The best part of this is that Megan is now the EVP/CEO of SubPop.

An interview she did last week on KEXP:

https://www.kexp.org/read/2018/8/10/sub-pop-30-megan-jasper-interview/

Haaaaa, I had no idea.

Gives me hope that my ceaseless acts of dipshittery might someday earn me the prestige I so deeply deserve.

at Sub Pop's anniversary festival on Saturday, two of the four stages were named The Harsh Realm Stage and The Flippity-Flop Stage.

Megan Jasper was on the History of Tower Records podcast recently and talks about the NYT piece (along with Sub Pop history, being Dinosaur's roadie, etc.) how sillier the words got, etc. The Baffler, NYT's reaction, the t-shirts C/Z Records made...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-89-megan-jasper-ceo-sub-pop-records/id1624366888?i=1000654017304