Capistrano Valley High School - El Gato Yearbook (Mission Viejo, CA)

Page 269 text:

m. ate lU Modtk of bahei -cud gahmk , 1ml In elementary school, boys could be heard shouting, Boys go to Mars to get more candy bars. Girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider. The girls would say something like duh or doy and stomp off with the boys bookin ' behind them saying, Gosh, have a cow! As these phrases faded, along with hatred for the opposite sex, new slang evolved. The Valley Girl syndrom came and teens began using like between every word and phrases such as Ohmygod! , Gag me! , and It was mega disgusting! Through the years, slang has sepa- rated the generations. There were the days of Daddy-O and greas- ers and rumbles when everyone was tough ; the Brady Bunch era of groovy and Isn ' t he dreamy? and far-out ; even the swell days, the like wow, man days, the bit- chen days, and the fully rad days. Many slang phrases have stayed the same despite the changes of each generation, and words such as cool and rad and boss have survived the wear of time. And in every generation, it seems to be so- cially unacceptable to use girl for girl or boy for boy . In Mr. Pflueger ' s day, he called girls foxes , Mrs. Kamita called cute guys dolls , Mr. Jeisy called girls quails , and Mr. Panici called good- looking girls hot babes . According to a senior poll, the slang phrases used most are: How ' s it going? , You ' re out! , On fire! , Insane! , What ' s up brah? , Sty- lin! , Relax! , Outta control , Choice! , Hideous! , Later, dude. , and Yo! Not all seniors use hip phrases, however. The non-conformists make up their own slang. Mr. Anth- ony and his high school friends called overweight girls in bikinis ga- hunks. Mrs. Willett ' s friends had a sarcastic remark for cool : neato- keeno-bosso-jet. Here ' s some other slang phrases that seniors use: What ' s up dude. - Jeff Smock. I ' m bummed. - Chris Wynen. S ' up? - Eric Godshaw. I never ever use slang words. - Dena Escandon. Alright already! - Aaron Anderson. That ' s what she said. - Sean Gal- lagher. Oh Jes Mang. - Karen Rose. What ' s slang. - Sherry Manning. Never barred. - Lewis Sliheet. Yo say wass up homes? - jay Mir- anda. Your mom! - Dustin Frieder. No way! - Heather Frost. Too classic! - Dayne Galium. it seems at Capo and everywhere else that slang is a teenager ' s unoffi- cial method of confusing adults, until parents realize that cool can mean hot , bad can mean good , and that if their son is dating an insane chick, it simply means that she is good-looking and not that she needs to be in an asylum.

Page 268 text:

s iiii..

Page 270 text:

-I ' 1