Jun
24
Exaggerated for Effect
Mon, 25/06/2007 - 00:30

Lichtenstein is so damn cool. This is 'Blam' from 1962.
I was totally awed seeing his stuff for real in Amsterdam a couple of years back. So big and bold and dreamy and gorgeous.
Thought the 'Blam!' and Lichtenstein in general, were kind of appropriate for the hyperbolic words I have in mind today.
Funny, silly, explosive words like 'Fantabulous!' and 'Ubertastic!'. Words that seem doubly so if you can take two with similar meanings like Fantastic and Fabulous, such recognisable sounds and smoosh em.
There's 'Ginormous' which just seems to make so much sense to my ears.
But how about 'Bodacious' - the boldly audacious Bill and Ted may or may not have said it first.
Or was it the Ninja Turtles?
Neither, according to Michael Quinion, who reckons it's been around in various forms since at least 1832 and probably originates in the fabulous (not sure I can go so far as to say fantabulous - even fabulous may be stretching it a bit) West Country.
(I'm a little confused about the breast bit though).