The standard comeback when called a dork isn't on Google: Dynamite Out of sight Radical Kid

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The standard comeback when called a dork isn't on Google: Dynamite Out of sight Radical Kid

A schoolyard classic. Someone calls you a dork. Standard schoolyard protocol is to respond with, "yeah, i know i'm a D.O.R.K.: Dynamite Out of sight Radical Kid!" Now how is it that the internet does not have this phrase anywhere in existence? (Zero results on google). Is the internet not a schoolyard of fun? The internet certainly is the schoolyard of fun. Therefore, this phrase; "Dynamite, Out of Sight, Radical Kid" needs to exist online.

It even has a nice rhythm to it. DynaMITE outtaSIGHT radical kid.
cha cha CHA
uh uh AH!

Wasn't this a phrase that everyone said in response to being called a dork? Or am I living in another world? Much like where I thought everyone knows what a skelbow is.

Never heard of it.

Posted by: Cartophiliac on Jul 24, 08 | 6:35 am

Me either, but I'm ancient and that may have come around after my time, but dork was certainly around.

Posted by: Tom on Jul 24, 08 | 10:17 am

I think I learned that from you.

Posted by: Kelly on Jul 25, 08 | 6:37 am

c'mon people! Dynamite Outtasight Radical Kid! D.O.R.K. That musta been a mid-80s south side of chicago thing.

Posted by: unlikelymoose on Jul 25, 08 | 9:49 am

someone else posted about this on March 9, 2005. I'm not going to link to it because they use a swear word in the post and I don't like people swearing on the internet because there's kids out there. And get this. The person is from Orland Park, Illinois. It's totally a south sid thing. Do a google search for "dynamite outtasight radical kid" and the link will show up.

Posted by: unlikelymoose on Jul 25, 08 | 9:53 am

ha! spreading the joy of the D.O.R.K. acronym. I hope you are using it, Kelly! And you too, Tom! And you too, Cartophiliac! Y'all are my dorks!

Posted by: spudart on Jul 25, 08 | 9:53 am

whoa moose, i you totally commented while i was commenting, so you got left out of my dork comment. I invited the Orland Park blogger to comment on this post about where she heard about the meaning of D.O.R.K.

Posted by: spudart on Jul 25, 08 | 9:58 am

I couldn't be happier to be one of your dork

haha!

Posted by: Tom on Jul 25, 08 | 1:00 pm

Ha, I don't know what a skelbow is. :(

Posted by: design for mankind on Jul 25, 08 | 9:32 pm

What's a skelbow? My guess is the elbow of a skeleton! Ha ha!

Posted by: Lisa S. on Jul 28, 08 | 2:41 pm

i have never heard this response to dork. This must have been a south suburbs phenomenon.

plus as an acronym it doesnt even work

it would be a
DOOSRAK

even if you take out the "out of" you are left DSRAK

Posted by: Fred on Jul 29, 08 | 10:31 am

Heya fred, just a FYI. I did not grow up in the south suburbs. I grew up in Beverly, a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. And went to grade school in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago. And actually, the D.O.R.K. phrase originated in grade school, therefore it's a Marquette Park thing.

The acronym works when you say it like this, Dynamite Outtasight Radical Kid. It's all in how you say it out loud. Try it. You don't say "out of sight" as three words. You say it outtasight. And the rhythm of the phrase is totally like the acronym.

Dynamite
*pause*
Outtasight
*pause*
Radical
*shorter pause*
Kid

Posted by: spudart on Jul 29, 08 | 10:39 am

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