Hey 'tards!
I say the word 'awesome' way too often. I need to sound more like a grown up when term starts, so what good words are they I can replace it with. I'll need a few, and I do intend to sound eccentric
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:16, 38 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You could always say "Smashing" instead.
I love saying that word. it's ace.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:28, Reply)

I think 'ace'
as well, because I'd know I as referencing Dr Who from the 80s
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:36, Reply)

Ace is what I use also. However my brother wanted to call his son Ace but his wife wouldn't let him. I think that may be why I use it so much.

And obviously Ace Rimmer.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 14:02, Reply)

He's also a very good swimmer!

( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 14:09, Reply)

B.S.C. S.S.C.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 22:39, Reply)

Top hole?
Excellent?
Spiffing?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:31, Reply)

These are all excellent suggestions
I've already started dressing more like an art teacher, too
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:36, Reply)

I say "Fuckin' A"
Which is very teenage and then hsould be frowned upon.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:39, Reply)

Over the holidays
I swear I have become more teenage
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:43, Reply)

Excellent.
Preface these adjectives with "pretty damn" for an intensifier.

"That's good" becomes "that's pretty damn good"
"That's awesome" becomes "that's pretty damn awesome" which is a lot better than just "Awesome"
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:50, Reply)

That's a pretty damn nice
top hole!

Can see that one getting a teacher into trouble!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 14:01, Reply)

I keep totally saying
'totally'
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:40, Reply)

The frog in a blender
from Joe Cartoon says that.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:47, Reply)

top hole sounds pretty dirty

( Lisette von Falcon, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 15:42, Reply)

Pretty DAMN dirty

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 15:59, Reply)

surely ones
top hole would be the nose. Unless you're standing on your head, then it's rude
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:47, Reply)

still sounds raunchy

( Lisette von Falcon, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 17:15, Reply)

If you're teaching art,
Then "coooool" and "nice" should be the only words you have recourse to use.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:45, Reply)

Refer to brown as "burnt sienna"
and stuff a pigeon into the kiln, while playing Enya

/my experiences of Art teachers.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:48, Reply)

I'm not really a proper 'art' teacher,
but close enough. And not only will I call yellowy brown, yellow ochre, but I will give you a long dull story about ochre
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Oh I thought you were describing your dress sense as "like an art teacher's"
rather than "becoming more like an art's teacher's [which it should be, as I am one, or close enough]"

Our Art teacher was bonkers. Absolutely mental. I was never any good though so I didn't have to endure it past the age of 14.

I do like colours, though. Though you'd be hard pressed to describe the colour of my hair a few months ago. Crow said it best when he described it as "sunburst"- almost white at the roots, going yellow and orange towards the ends. Truly spectacular.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:47, Reply)

sweet
there's a really good book about colour by victoria Finlay. It's all about where dyes and pigments come from. It led to many of my friends never mentioning colours around me in case it set me off on one
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:50, Reply)

Tip top.
We had an English teacher who used that and "scoot" without a hint of sarcasm.

He was always flushed, as if someone was constantly whispering dirty jokes in his ear; plus, he walked with his head bent at 45°, like he'd forgotten to take the hanger out of his shirt. Mister Askew he was called.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 14:16, Reply)

Be careful of affectations
Like Spiffing. Yuck. Should only be used with tongue firmly in cheek, and then sparingly. Awesome is a good word for fortunate happenings beyond the usual day-to-day humdrum. A little ironical what with the associations with surfer dude types in the movies, but it's widely used nowadays. There's a lot of mileage in Awesome.

If in doubt Good is a good word. Don't come out with some poncey 19th century tongue-twister just because you're confused and gasping for "interesting" words.
(Mr Big Stuff, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 15:03, Reply)

Cracking!
Marvelous!
Superb!
( CowJam, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 15:17, Reply)

I was going to suggest superb
since excellent had already been taken.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:00, Reply)

I say Totally, Awesome and Well too much.
I origionally was being sarcastic or ironic, but it's built into my vocab now.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:48, Reply)

I've totally been chefologing again today.
Oboe jeans stuffed with couscous with toasted pine nuts done in chicken stock....topped with pasta sauce*... topped with more couscous to get crispy bits.... topped with chorizo slices which will hopefully go crispy.... topped with some chedder cheese.


* Home made: Red Wine, Carrots, Red Onion, Paprika, Tinned Tomartoes, Peppers, Celory, Chili.... and, erm, loads of other stuff.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 20:07, Reply)

oboe jeans
Gonz, you rule
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 20:09, Reply)

=D
It's another winner, this is a great one, doesn't need the chroizo if you're vegiterians.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 20:59, Reply)

=D

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 21:32, Reply)

delightful
inspired
wonderful
( WormuIus, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:49, Reply)

you should use 'awesome' as your only positive adjective
but only if you pronounce it in an american accent
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 19:56, Reply)

awesome

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 20:09, Reply)

^ this

(Mr Big Stuff, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 0:26, Reply)

HUZZAH!
Always HUZZAH!
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 5 Sep 2010, 4:50, Reply)

I say sweet
my boss has finally got used to it but I think he still thinks it's weird. I also use awesome far too much. And epic.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 9:24, Reply)

radical or smashing

( zulu eh?, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:56, Reply)