Don’t you worry; another LOST post is coming…real soon.

 

For now, however, as to not alienate any potential audience members (you know, anyone but Parry), I will mix it up – and write about something even more narrow in focus!

 

I’ve recently taken up a new campaign. Actually, I’ve re-taken up this campaign, as I’ve vowed to do this several times in the past, each time failing miserably. Now, with the help of technology, I can spread my purpose far and wide, and my quest will be one of sweet success and great reward…

 

Now, there are many movies out there that have produced a plethora of great quotes. In my house, there are many movies that get repeatedly quoted over and over again: The Odyssey (“Poooooseidon!”), Anchorman (“You know I don’t speak Spanish”), Fight Club (“This is Bob. Bob had bitch tits”), Pulp Fiction (of many, my personal favorite: “I don't need you to tell me how fucking good my coffee is, okay? I'm the one who buys it. I know how good it is”), The Rules of Attraction (anything said by Richard – “It’s Dick!”), and Invasion: AKA Top of the Food Chain (“Jesus says try cool fusion”) just to name a few. No other movie, however, fills my heart with quote-worthy glee more than Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (and the subsequent sequel, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey).

 

Let’s take a look at a few gems:

 

“Be excellent to each other.”

“Party on, dudes!”

“You killed Ted, you medieval dickweed!”

“Genghis very much enjoys Twinkies because of the excellent sugar rush.”

“Bogus!”

“This is Dave Beeth Oven, and Maxine of Arc, Herman the Kid, Bob "Genghis" Khan, So-crates Johnson,  Dennis Frood, and uh, uh... Abraham Lincoln.”

“most non-triumphant”

 

Classics.

 

There are also, of course, many other winners from both the first film and its lesser, but still ridiculous, sequel. Check

them out on IMDB if you don't believe me:

Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey. 

 

Did you ever see Never Been Kissed? It was a pretty cheese-tastic movie in which Drew Barrymore poses as a teenager to get the scoop on what high schoolers are really like. David Arquette’s in it too – ha! Anyway, there were some kids in that movie who were attempting to create a new term. They decided to use “Rufus!” as in “Those neon purple kicks are so Rufus!” Note that, although I do not believe it is ever directly referenced, Rufus is a term straight from B&T – Rufus, of course, being George Carlin’s future-lovin’, phone booth totin’, guitar hippie from the future. I think we can all agree that Rufus is totally badass and that the word created in his honor is justified. I even believe, and I may be totally making this up, that I have heard people in the real world using the term every so often.

 

This brings me hope - hope that I can resurrect another classic B&T line that is totally overlooked by the public: Station!

 

Take a minute to recall Bogus Journey. After the duo earn their release from Hell, they force the Reaper to bring them up to Heaven so they can find a way to defeat the evil robot versions of themselves. After mugging some Amish-looking people and stealing their clothing (the best scene), they gain an audience with God who directs them to the greatest mind in existence: Station. Technically, Station is two beings that mesh together to form one giant Station. They are so smart that they make two good robot Bill and Teds from dust busters and spare parts, but they have an extremely limited vocabulary: they can only say Station!

 

Now, I cannot claim that Station! has gotten no attention (exhibit A: Urban Dictionary: Station), but I have never, EVER heard anyone say it in public. This is such a great word! It can mean absolutely anything that you want it to mean! Anything! It’s like “smurf” but much more Station!

 

I encourage you all to go forth and station to your heart’s content. Do so proudly and without regret. In these last few weeks of the school year, I plan on working it into as many lessons as possible, thereby influencing today’s youths at their most impressionable to use and pass along this “new” term. Hell, as their English teacher, I could give it as a vocabulary word! Hmmm…

 

Station!