![]() ![]() When to use it: When contemplating the transience of life. The basis of many ancient philosophies and self-help regimes essentially boils down to an acceptance of the ‘nowness’ of all things, so they really stumbled on something here. This one is slightly harder to get on board with while enduring the manure-slicked Slip ‘N’ Slide that is the year of our lords 2020, but this is Bill’s summary having skipped around through history in their time-travelling phone box. When to use it: While gazing at heavy metal depictions of hell, the Grim Reaper, the Devil et al and thinking they look kind of cool. Death – and his “cute butt” – will come for us all.Ī lesson learned in Bogus Journey, when Bill and Ted discover that Satan’s manor is nothing like it is in the eyes of Iron Maiden. When to use it: When remembering that while time may be elastic, we each have our expiry date. Not the lyrics of Bill and Ted’s band Wyld Stallyns, but those of hair metal band Kansas, borrowed by Bill and Ted in attempt to converse on a level with philosophical superstar Socrates. When to use it: Apply the philosophy whenever a parent’s new partner is eliciting difficult-to-process feelings in you. In spite of the tangled web, Bill and Ted welcome her back to the family with kind words and a performance of their new song, which includes theremin and throat singing. When to use it: When traditional syntax just doesn’t express how excellent or heinous something is.Īcross the three movies, the character Missy has been many things to Bill and Ted: lusted-after high school senior, Ted’s stepmom, Bill’s stepmom and now, in Face The Music, Ted’s little brother’s new wife. In practice, when Bill describes their trip to Hell in Bogus Journey as “non-non-non-non-heinous”, it means it was heinous, which is quite what you’d expect from a visit to hell. ![]() When to use it: Whenever you’re asked the question: ‘What number am I thinking of right now?’ Surplus modifiers are not-not-not-uncoolīill and Ted aren’t the sharpest tools, but their mastery of the double-negative speaks to a cognitive idiosyncrasy, rather than insufficiency. It’s the number that’s always at the forefront of a Bill & Ted acolyte’s mind, for some reason. 69 is the only figure of numerological import ![]()
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