Talk:cowabunga

Simpsons

I believe that Matt Groening had the Bart Simpson character use phrases popular with youth of past generations to mock the slang young people use, which is usually a combination of old terms and new terms, but, which all seem new to the speaker. 75.38.0.113 17:46, 20 October 2009

Might could be. In this case, he apparently didn't realize Bart had used it before the merch came out and the TMNT were already popularizing it since the cartoon made Michaelangelo a surfer brah instead of a laid-back homebody. — LlywelynII 16:19, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup

I've tried to fix this up a bit, and reference the heck out of what I have put in, although my apologies for not properly getting to grips with Wiktionary syntax. I've since noticed that the en.wiki page was only recently soft-redirected, and there's some stuff in the last version that may be useful - citations from Simpsons transcripts and so on. The Cookie Monster's usage of Kowabunga would also be notable, if it can be referenced properly. Le Deluge 01:02, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

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cowabunga

A recent addition to the etymology section is written in an informal tone and seems to contradict the pre-existing etymology, may need verification/referencing and editing. -- OlEnglish 08:26, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Back to Wikipedia

The lovely but overdone, footnoted etymology currently shunted into the appendix needs to stop hanging around here at all and just go back home to Wikipedia, with the most pertinent and dictionary-sourced, non-OR bits left here (done). There's already people on the talk page over there saying the entry should be restored and similar entries like kreegah bundolo to use as precedent. — LlywelynII 16:19, 4 August 2018 (UTC)