Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 31, 2024

She’ll remember you again when she’s old enough to ask the car keys.

My granddaughters all talk the same way!!!

Betcha they don’t even believe in God! Just in machinery!!

Where is Mark??

GUILTY!, GUILTY!, GUILTY!

GUILTY!

Nice to know that under the thick layer of tech savvy she’s an average teen girl.

Doonesbury May 29, 1973: “GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!”

Why are you still there Mike?

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!!!

Fan girls. I know if I met Garry Trudeau I’d be all like, “Hi Mr. Trudeau. Nice to meet you.”

It all started with Valleyspeak. (San Fernando Valley) As an English major, my daughter knows I dislike it, so as a ‘tween she’d invite her girlfriends over to torture me- until I piped up in their midst out-Valleying them-to my daughter’s shame, eliciting the plaintive daughter’s anguished cry:Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

We used terms such as “far out” and “groovy”.

Auditioning for Legally Blonde.

Remove “like” and “it was like” from the American English language and you will have the quietest country on Earth.

Sounds like a religious revival.

Several folks above have mentioned the May 1973 strip (referring to John Mitchell and Watergate) where Mark Slackmeyer proclaims “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!” The last panel of that is my new temporary Facebook profile picture.

Here’s hoping for a long sentence (for the blithering idiot who can’t put a long sentence together.)

Like, this incessant use of filler words is, like a pet peeve of mine. Like, you know . . .

Trumps’s defense attorney was on CNN hours after the verdict,trying desperately to find something to say that was worth hearing. Hope he enjoyed working for free,

Obviously very religious.

Valley Girl , She’s a Valley Girl! Totally ! ;-)

She needs some vocabulary prep.

So earlier this morning I was going to comment that this reminds me of an early episode of Friends where Rachel’s rich gal pals show up at the coffee house and keep squealing as they catch up on news, so of course Monica and Phoebe have to make fun of them. Well, guess which episode just aired on TBS? (It’s like my super power – being able to predict which rerun from the 80’s and 90’s will air within the next day or two.)

I’ve met grown-a$$ adults that talk that way.

Are certain words creeping into their conversation? Words like “swell?” And “so’s your old man?”

She’ll be fine.

I think she will.

The old road is rapidly faneging.

In 1994 IBM launched its OS/2 Warp operating system, with a bunch of subtitled ads showing groups of people people around the world (I remember French fishermen and Czech nuns) discussing how great it was. My favourite ad (which I unfortunately can’t find easily on YT) showed what was apparently a California corporate project team having a meeting on a beach, mostly in surfer gear, using California-speak (not far removed from Valley Girl talk). I remember one young woman saying, “But is it totally tubular?”, translated in the subtitles as “But will it meet our corporate requirements?”

“the walls in the mall are totally totally tall.”

A good example that “guys” is no longer gender-specific.