Have you ever used “Boom Shakalaka” Unironically?

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1. No! 😂Isn’t that from Muppet Treasure Island though?
   I love that movie! Or wait is it the word people used to use for like when someone gets tackled in Football! The announcer would be like BOOM SHAKALAKA!

2. Every now and then it slips out lol. Used to be big when I was a kid.

3. Is from the song “I Want To Take You Higher” by Sly and the Family Stone from 1969. It was a nonsensical word that caught on. It can be used to convey excitement. I don’t think it’s used unironically

4. I only ever associate it with professional basketball and slam dunks. Feel like it was one of those things that got associated with 80s/90s basketball.

   Would only ever use it if I was a broadcaster or announcer, which I’m not.

5. Listen man, the 90’s were a rad time. We played a lot of NBA Jam(tho it does predate that).

6. Yes, I have quoted Stuart Scott many, many times in my life.

7. Only when I’m rapping

   “Boom shaka laka yo here comes the Chief Rocka!”

8. I only use it unironically

9. Your dad and I should be friends. He sounds tubular.

10. Only when making love

11. It is the job of older generations to drive the younger generations mad by saying nonsense things like that. That’s why I still say off the chain and on fleek when talking to my nieces and nephews

12. No

13. I’ve said it.

14. Does he also say things like “From downtown!” “He’s on fire!” “Razzle dazzle” or “Slamma lama ding dong!”?

15. There’s an ironic way to use it?

16. Have I said it unironically? Yes.

    Have I said it unironically often? No.

17. I had a boyfriend who played pro-bball in about 1990. He and some of his player friends would say it.

    I never said it and dont think I knew anyone but that group of guys that did.

18. Only in moments of peak erotic passion.

19. Geez.

    The social media thread made me feel old but this one made me feel ancient.

    I try to work it into as many conversations as possible and have no idea why anyone would say it ironically.

20. I have not however I believe this must be a dad thing because mine also says it.

21. The last time I remember using it was maybe in the late 90s

22. NBA jam arcade game is where I heard it from as a 90s kid.

23. Only when talking about Her Glamorous Majesty Queen Boom Shakalaka of Treasure Island (aka Miss Piggy in a grass skirt).

24. Yes as have others

    https://youtu.be/YSYGfiz91lY

25. I totally did when I was eleven years old in 1993.

26. When I was a kid in the early 90s? Sure.

    Now? Only when I cum.

27. Yes. In my defense, I was a teenager and it was the 90s.

28. I don’t exactly understand what it means to use slang unironically.

    Is using slang ironically the same as using it incorrectly?

29. NBA Jam TE (tournament edition) for Sega Genesis back in the day. The announcer in the game would yell it when you dunk on someone lol.

30. Yes last use was Sunday October 9th when the Cowboys clenched their game.

31. Of course I have

    Source: born in the 80s

32. 90s. “Whoomp there it is! Shaka laka Shaka laka” I’ll be real with you. This is one of those things I could hear in my head when I read the question but couldn’t totally place until I did some searching….like a one hit wonder song

33. My husband and I say it to each other, sort of. Usually one of us says “boom” in response to something, and then the other one will say “boom shakalaka” and then the first person will respond “shakalaka shaka boom”. I don’t know why, or where that ever started.

34. Sly Stone lives!

35. Is your dad Sly Stone?

36. FROM DOWNTOWN

37. No, lol.