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We should bring clutch back.
« on: February 06, 2007, 07:53:38 am »
As a word to signify something being agreeable. I.e. That is so clutch, or This band
  • is the most clutch thing ever.


Also boss.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 01:55:14 pm »
Now you're cookin' with gas.

Although I think clutch would be better served as meaning "vestigal or unnecessary yet having devoted proponents." The Rolling Stones have become so clutch.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2007, 02:03:49 pm »
Damn cort, way to find the stone in the beans. Put an onion on your belt, why dontcha!
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2007, 02:17:12 pm »
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2007, 03:30:34 pm »
linguistic discussion! somebody call muse of fire in here.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2007, 03:39:37 pm »
This thread doesn't need a linguistic smackdown so much as it needs CortJstr to find the last thread along these lines so we can say we talked about this.

But, wtf, clutch? This word must have been in and gone out again without my noticing.  Is this another one of those things about how old I am?
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2007, 08:17:24 pm »
Either that, or it means you don't know that many lame ass people. 

Also, Crutch is a much finer word.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2007, 08:36:03 pm »
wombat-- only if it can also be about how Young I am. Because I am not aware of this.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2007, 08:45:07 pm »
Clutch had a very short and specific shelf life of about '88 -> '90 in NoCal.

Its orgin twin Hella, however, has continued to prosper. I imagine the only way to slip a clutch in now without drawing some raised eyebrows would be to combo the two, let's try it:

HELLA CLUTCH, DUDE!

*shudder*

No, sorry, I think clutch is dead. Inform the family and shut the machines down. Let's not frankenstein this one, Bjorn.

Condolences.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2007, 08:51:44 pm »
Hella wasn't invented by Cartman?
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2007, 10:22:42 pm »
I propose we coin the phrase: "slap him like a peer".

The idea of devoting one's self to attaining a level of success only for the sake of being able to gain revenge on one of your persumed betters without moving inappropriately out of your social strata.

Such as "Yeah, I'm only two promotions away from being able to take Jenkins in Accounting and slap him like a peer".

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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2007, 10:30:35 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on February 06, 2007, 08:51:44 pm
Hella wasn't invented by Cartman?

Nope, my cousins (who are native to the SFO bay area, circa early '70s) introduced me to the term in 1982.  Not sure where Parker/Stone came across it.
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2007, 01:22:09 am »
This thread is just reminding me of one of the most sociolinguistically malformed constructions I have ever seen:

"Hella hecka wicked mad cool, yo!"

I believe this was on a sign posted by the campus Christian group while I was in college, but context has been frightened out of me. Gah. Nobody actually uses "hecka," right?
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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2007, 01:29:59 am »
At the very least, it seems redundant to hella
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Re: We should bring clutch back.
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2007, 03:34:47 am »
guys... as long as we can agree that no one is Bringing Sexy Back.
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