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  • I pity the fool of puts on my jewelry, welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 catchphrases kids today don't recognize boring, I want my MTV, it's not your MTV.

  • The MTV belongs to all of us for this list.

  • We're looking at popular tag lines that were once as common as coffee but now are unrecognizable to most youth.

  • Do you have a favorite old catchphrase?

  • Let us know in the comments Number 10, getting jiggy, anyone born into the new millennium will likely have difficulty narrowing down where this one came from.

  • Then hip hop artist, now actor will Smith released his song getting jiggy with it in January of 1998.

  • Both the tune and accompanying music video became a huge hit that year, prompting countless fans to get jiggy.

  • The meaning behind it has changed slightly as the years have progressed.

  • The term really was more about being completely uninhibited in how one dances in public.

  • He doesn't like my taste in music, I guess not, you should have been there last year, I got jiggy with it.

  • Just let it all out there like no one else matters today.

  • Some folks take it to be a more intimate term, but either way it still reminds us of that song, you are not going out and getting jiggy with some boy, I don't care how dope his ride is number nine, what's the 411 long before text messages and online communication.

  • People use their phones to actually, you know, talk and when there was no google, people could dial 411 on their phone and someone on the other end of the call would help them find the number for a person or business.

  • Hello operator, This is an emergency.

  • Give me the fire department or the police or the paramedics, somebody I don't care.

  • You decide for 11 became synonymous with getting information naturally.

  • Those who had grown up with the free service started using the term in everyday language.

  • April what's the 411 little mama.

  • What's the hot goss, who you crushing on these days?

  • My husband Weirdo.

  • Once the 411 became ubiquitous for asking someone for more details about any given subject.

  • Although the service still lives on the same has seen better days in the parlance of the urban music scene.

  • What's the 411?

  • Number eight, where's the beef?

  • Where's the beef?

  • Where's the beef?

  • What the hell is that supposed to mean?

  • Where's the beef?

  • When McDonald's and Burger King are your two biggest competitors?

  • What do you do to stand out from them?

  • You poke a little fun at the size of the buns.

  • In your new ads, Wendy's released a commercial in 1984 where a senior citizen sees so much bread for their burger and asks the question, the saying stuck among consumers, but not just in regards to the size of a burger.

  • It became synonymous with looking far beyond the superfluid ease and getting at the heart of a subject rarely heard today.

  • The saying lives on through memory and the wonders of Youtube.

  • Where's the beef?

  • Where's the beef?

  • Where's the beef, Number seven?

  • Take a chill pill Long before Taylor Swift told us to calm down, people were using plenty of different idioms to try and temper their agitation back in the 80s and 90s.

  • It was fairly common to hear someone tell you to take a chill pill when you get a little too anxious upset or irritable chip.

  • Why isn't he here yet?

  • He'll be here.

  • OK, take a chill pill.

  • It was a staple of the era, especially given how a D.

  • H.

  • D.

  • Had become far more prevalent at the time, interestingly enough.

  • However, a recipe for a real chill pill appeared in multiple books in the 18 seventies which were allegedly used to treat fevers, may be one of those could have been used to dial someone down when needed.

  • Take a chill pill.

  • I don't need to take a chill pill down the hatch.

  • I really don't want to take the chip, that a boy number six, all that and a bag of chips, Hey, there you are.

  • All that And a bag of chips.

  • What a cool phrase.

  • I hope it never sounds dumb and dating what do sick dope goat and lit have in common.

  • They're all variations on a theme of being awesome, whereas kids today might say something like man that's totally sick.

  • There was a time when a bag of Doritos almost conveyed the same thing all that?

  • And a bag of chips was frequently spoken by teenage kids of the 19 nineties when referring to things that were simply the best of the best, it seemed that anything that was great was somehow made even better by adding a crunchy treat to it.

  • Hey, we don't make this stuff up, we just list them, you ain't all that.

  • And a bag of potato chips.

  • What are you talking about, number five, what you talking about?

  • Willis?

  • The year was 1978 and NBC rolled out a new T.

  • V.

  • Show called Diff'rent strokes.

  • It told the story of two african american boys who went to live with a widowed, well to do caucasian man.

  • The late Gary Coleman played Arnold, the young boy who often was at the center of many episodes.

  • He'd often snap back at his brother saying what you talking bout Willis when he'd be confused or misunderstand something.

  • Coleman would become well known for his character and the catchphrase fans of the show years later would recite the quote whenever someone would make an incomprehensible comment, I think we already know what it is, don't we coach you talking bout Willis?

  • It's one of the older phrases on this list, but it still brings a smile to those who remember it, What you talking about, What you talking about everyone.

  • Number four, what's up now?

  • Here's one, we're sure a lot of people were glad to see fade into oblivion made famous through a series of Budweiser commercials from 1999 to 2002.

  • This one was borderline annoying to some.

  • Hello, was that a clearly exaggerated version of saying, what's up?

  • The big gag here is how long you can drag on the up portion of this phrase before it's gone too far.

  • Amazingly, it's something that's found its way into the mainstays of pop culture and is still seen occasionally today it's been parodied and redone multiple times, including spots on the Simpsons ant man and the wasp and even the office.

  • What's up Yet?

  • Requending anyone born in the 21st century will understand what they're saying.

  • Number three, I pity the fool.

  • Quick trivia.

  • Question who is Lawrence to road better known as if you guessed mr T.

  • You would be right appearing as clubber lang in Rocky three.

  • His famous catchphrase almost comes off as a throwaway line while being interviewed before a match.

  • No, I don't hate bad boy, but I pity the fool and I will destroy any man who tries to take what I got the quote stuck with him and Taro has been using it ever since.

  • I pity the fool who didn't an envelope to this bar mitzvah often misinterpreted tea has gone on record clarifying it's about showing mercy and not anger but can easily be taken for the ladder given who's delivering the line.

  • I always took it as I pity, the fool means I want to kill the guy.

  • No, no, no, no, no.

  • When you pity somebody who's showing the mercy because I didn't start this pity stuff.

  • It was in the bible.

  • It's become such an iconic part of his image that he had it trademarked so no one else could make use of it.

  • I pity the fool who is illogical.

  • Number two, pardon me.

  • Would you have any gray poupon?

  • You know, you've spent your advertising money?

  • Well, when even 40 years later, people still remember a single commercial as one fancy car pulls up to another one.

  • Rider asks the other, pardon me, would you have any gray poupon?

  • But of course the high end Dijon mustard company had been in business for more than 100 years before this famed commercial cemented them into the history books, forever associating the brand with wealth.

  • The slogan remained a heavy part of their advertising campaign for several years, including a new version released in 2013, pardon me, would you have any gray poupon?

  • But of course Farnsworth.

  • I do believe that Well groomed man was driven off of that gray poupon.

  • It surely isn't part of your daily vernacular, but it's certainly something far more obscure than some on this list, pardon me.

  • Do you have any gray poupon.

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  • Number one I want my MTV.

  • It was 1981 when music television debuted and aired video killed the radio star by the buggles in much the same way that Mp three changed music listening habits.

  • So did MTV when they brought videos into our home within a year.

  • The station's new slogan, I want my MTV helped influence thousands of young music listeners to tune in and see the latest and greatest videos.

  • I want my MTV, I want my MTV, I want my MTV cable company and it helped MTV become the place to be for all aspiring musicians.

  • You were not going to get anywhere unless you had a video on MTV.

  • The catchphrase was even included in the dire straits song money for nothing.

I pity the fool of puts on my jewelry, welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 catchphrases kids today don't recognize boring, I want my MTV, it's not your MTV.

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