I hate it when people ask "What's up?"

I reply: "Prices."

The ceiling.

My Gawd! How did THAT get there?

'what's up' went out with 'keepin' it real', or did they go out cuz everyone still uses them? I think they might be permanent.

I've been saying what's up for decades, I think it's permanent. Usually I use it with family these days.

Hey, littlek....what's up?

nuthin

You're right, that one beer commercial kind of wore it out though cuz then evryone made it a point to say, whaaaaassuuuuup?

OK, I don't get all of this kvetching about basic social interaction.

I LIKE "How ya doin'?" I LIKE "What's up?" It's a few notches down on the intimacy scale from a handshake or a hug, but I see it as serving a similar purpose. They have an infinite number of uses and an infinite number of possible responses that serve as social lubricant, or maybe social glue ("Hey, who put Elmer's in the K-Y tube?"). It's an easy way to connect, which can also easily be deeper. I have had many conversations with friends, especially in front of other people, which held tons of meaning within that framework.

"How ya doin'?"

"Um."

"Oh no, really?"

"Yeah."

"Daaaaaaaamn..."

<hug>

LOL! You are so funny! I like your posts...

But that's with someone you know. If you don't know someone it's annoying to have to think up good answers.

:-)

You ain't bad yourself. Though I think it's high time that purty sunset turns into a way macho bunny...

But, good answers? "Fine." That's really so hard?

I dunno, I have a bias, I love predictable verbal interaction so lipreading is a breeze and I can pay attention to all those micro-expressions goin' on. "Fine" can mean seventy eight zillion different things, and then the trick is follow-up.

Edit: wait, this is the "what's up" thread, not the "How ya doin'?" thread, sorry. Still, the principle applies. (I usually say something like, "not much, you?") The WORDS don't matter, it's just a little connection thing, a mood-gauging thing.

You can't say "Fine" when someone says "What's up?" It makes no sense, and I forbid it.

Edit: Oh, I see, scratch this comment. ...wait. No, don't scratch it. I still forbid it just the same. It is forbidden.

Aye-aye.

Done. Now to get the glue as far away from the KY as possible...

And watch out for the Bengay, too, X.

truth
I know a guy who answeres, "Not me; got any suggestions?"

I agree that waaaassszup wore the question into triteness. But, I don't say wasssszup and no one else I know does. Well, there was that couple of weeks when I trained my then 2 year old neice to say it, but that's different.

I agree with Soz. What's up is just an icebreaker.

The worst reply to the question, 'what's up,' is 'aeroplanes.' I hold it as a maxim, that any sardonic response to the question 'what's up?' wouldn't make a right-minded hyena in a pillow factory laugh.