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There's no beer this time (or aliens, yuppies or annoying girlfriends), but the Wassup?! dudes are back. And this time, they're not selling Bud. (Video is below...
...office and prompted Americans everywhere to stick out their tongues and linger just a little too long on the familiar greeting. In the intervening eight years, the friends have gotten older - and under the Bush Administration, their circumstances have changed. They're not "Watchin' the game. Havin' a Bud." Wassup Dude #1 - director Charles Stone, who also created the original ad - says, instead, that he's "Lost my home. Lookin' for a job." Wassup Dude #2, calling from a slightly inexplicable battlefield payphone, is "Still in Iraq. Watchin' my ass." Their uninsured buddy has an arm cast and neck brace...
Since the first thing I want from a friend is someone who responds seriously to every stupid thing I say, I sent all the candidates this message: "Wassup? Jordin is totally going to win Idol! She's awesome!! So are you!! Put up some new pics. LOL ;) Why should I vote for you? I only have one vote! ROFL ;) Write back fast, Joel...
...Poetry and profit, however, have rarely been a good marriage. Nor do critics see much potential for great literature in SMS. In fact, cute abbreviations like wassup, ruup4it and clever "emoticon" symbols such as :-) and :-( make real poetry lovers wince. "Puh-leeze!" says Hamish Ironside of Anvil Press, an independent poetry publisher in London. "This isn't literature. It's a game, a fad." And besides, he adds, "I don't have a mobile phone...
...century, text messaging is not entirely new. Teenagers have long sought secret ways of communicating with each other. And for people as a whole, says Jay Jasanoff, chair of the linguistics department at Harvard University, "English language and English literature will neither stand nor fall by the use of wassup, ruup4it or even a happy face...