The Lunxicon

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is an all-time classic, no questions asked. (What’s that? You have a question? Get in office now—fired!) The heartwarming tale of two bumbling, metal-loving teen buffoons was more than just a hilarious comedy about time travel; it was an educational experience for an entire generation. Who knew, for example, that Napoleon was such a swine-like fellow with a passion for ice cream and water slides? Or that Joan D’Arc loved aerobics?

Most importantly, though, the movie introduced pseudo-surfer jargon to youths worldwide, the most notable piece of which was “bodacious.” Sure, the word didn’t originate in the 1980s, but I like to credit Messrs Preston and Logan with bringing it back. And now, roughly 20 years later, it’s time to re-bring it back.

Like most words, “bodacious” has a couple of definitions. One of them being audacious/brazen. Yeah, later, bro. Back in the phone booth for you, Lesser Definition, Rufus’ll be by to check on you in a bit. I say this because when I refer to a female as having a “bodacious bod,” I mean that it is outstanding and/or remarkable. And when, for example, when Bill S. Preston Esquire describes Socrates as “the most bodacious philosophizer in Ancient Greece,” he surely meant the same.

As a most welcome blast from our cultural past, “bodacious” is worthy of any conversation. Well, maybe not any conversation; I don’t recommend you tell your boss that his latest ideas on tweaking sales distribution channels are “totally bodacious,” for example. That would just be stupid. Such idiotic examples aside, however, just think of the possibilities! There you are at some lame hipster loft party, where for some reason everybody seems to have a white moustache. You see a fly honey across the room, her pasty skin partially blinding you as she dances with her hands to a band that sounds like a really bad Gang of Four. So, you walk over, cool as a cactus stored in a cooler, and deliver the killer line: “hey, I gotta say, you have got a seriously bodacious style going on there.” BOO-YA! Before you know it, you will be leg-touching like a maniac. Ok, maybe not, but I blame your probable failure on your lack of a convincing perma-stoned drawl (think, “bodaaaaaycioussss”).

Regardless, it is a most bodacious term, and one that warrants greater use. When my mom called me last night, she asked how I was doing:

“Bodacious.”
“WHAT?”
“Bodacious.”
“WHAT?”
“Bodacious.”
“Stupid… this phone is broken.”
“Hello?”
… -click- …

This is obviously not an ideal example, but I’d wager that, should use of the term to describe something awesome come into play, it will put a smile on the listener’s face. Unless the listener is one of those spare parts who doesn’t like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. In which case you should probably stop talking to him/her forever.