Talk:Whatever (slang)

(Rosie and Nav)
The person whose change I undid had a point though - why are they called Rosie and Nav? If this is a reference to something, can someone credit it?Chapwithwings 16:12, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Lilies of the Field
I'm not sure how to turn this into a real citation, but in Lilies of the Field (1963), there's a scene where Mother Maria Marthe is getting a lecture from Homer Smith, and replies, Whatever!. This would move the earliest citation forward about 8 years. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:39, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It doesn't appear (at least not spelled correctly) in the novelette except in other contexts, and the rest of about 13 G-hits for
 * "Lilies of the Field" "Maria Marthe OR "Homer Smith" Whatever
 * so it's hard to either confirm or disconfirm from your report -- If you can unambiguously describe the scene you have in mind (e.g. describe its action and that of the scene preceding or following, and say how long (+/- a minute) after the start of the display of the main title the word comes, in your edition of the film, video, DVD, etc. -- which you should also identify) that might constitute a valid ref. If there's any possibility of difference of opinion about whether "Whatever" is the full content of his speech, give a full sentence each from before and after so, that no one has to fear missing it and having to guess about whether what you're talking about is still coming. What you've offered so far doesn't accomplish the verificability that WP requires. --Jerzy•t 03:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

the He is awsomeand jessica is wrong bit
What is that about? Is it legal to post an opinon looking thing. I'm commenting and not deleting it because I'm not sure how to go about deleting it or whether I should delete it. Could someone who better understands Wikipedia make this decision? is this what is meant by a signature? 68.184.243.228 (talk) 14:47, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * _ Yes, what you got using
 * is your sig. _ The result of the revision you saw, including a bit about "He is awesome and jessica is wrong." was changed some, and removed as vandalism a few hours later. _ For the record, its content was not only opinion, but apparently specifically about a dispute among editors and their off-line lives, and putting such information into an article is a form of V. But "legal" is a bad word to use for a WP-editor's behavior or our policies, bcz making legal threats on WP is not permitted and is likely to get the threatener blocked from editing. You didn't make a legal threat, but what you said could contribute to confusion about it. --Jerzy•t 03:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * is your sig. _ The result of the revision you saw, including a bit about "He is awesome and jessica is wrong." was changed some, and removed as vandalism a few hours later. _ For the record, its content was not only opinion, but apparently specifically about a dispute among editors and their off-line lives, and putting such information into an article is a form of V. But "legal" is a bad word to use for a WP-editor's behavior or our policies, bcz making legal threats on WP is not permitted and is likely to get the threatener blocked from editing. You didn't make a legal threat, but what you said could contribute to confusion about it. --Jerzy•t 03:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Lost ref
In June, an IP user, presumably in making a test-edit entertaining, vandalized the first headinged section, then tried to restore it by pasting back to the edit pane what they had copied from the article page -- thus de-wikifying it. In particular, the resulting revision included
 * ... conversational blocking tool. [1] In the above examples ...

with the bracketed digit replacing a linked ref, namely to How to respond to... whatev-ah.. by Tom Geoghegan of BBC News Magazine. I'm not committed to restoring the link, bcz of issues about the reliability of the source, and the fact that it offers very poor support for anything in the text that precedes it in the section, and none for most of the preceding text. But what i'm finishing the removal of should be made easier than delving thru the edit history. --Jerzy•t 07:26, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Also, one of the reference links gets a 404 from yahoo. I don't know how to tag this dead link because I'm a n00b. Somebody please teach me? --Gallusgallus (talk) 01:36, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

1965 Bewitched episode--earliest?
I saw a 1965 episode of 'Bewitched' a few years ago and the use of 'whatever' by Endora really stood out to me. I have been wondering ever since...was this a very early example? 'Bewitched' was a top 10 show in its first few years so a lot of viewers would have seen this.

From the Internet Movie Database, Character Quotes for Endora: Bewitched, Episode 2.1, 'Alias Darrin Stephens' 1965

Endora: [Endora pops in after Aunt Clara turns Darrin into a chimpanzee] Good morning, Samantha. Samantha Stephens: Mother, there's something I have to tell you. Endora: Good morning, Derwood. Samantha Stephens: Darrin. Endora: Alright, whatever. Samantha Stephens: You recognized him? Endora: I'd know Dilbert anywhere.

205.254.147.8 (talk) 20:02, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Clueless (film) Reference
It seems strange that there is a link to this page from the Clueless template, but no mention of the 1995 film in the text of the article. 62.255.46.193 (talk) 09:54, 26 February 2015 (UTC)