Bob Dylan - Whassup

[AllYourBase]

Is it true that Budweiser's annoying 'whassup' catchphrase came from a part of a Bob Dylan track? If so, which track is it from?

[mikewith]

It was the catchphrase of a group of young friends. When one of them, a director called Charles Stone III, made a short film based on it, Budweiser saw it, loved it, and turned it into a commercial (starring Stone and his friends)... and the rest is history.

[answerbok]

what plop, rimram. Why wouldn't friends have catchphrases??; "is that a fact or just conjecture?", being one of my friend's catchphrases, he says it many times a day. . - although, i could agree that 'whassup' is more of a catchword rather than phrase, 'give it some welly' is a catch phrase; "say what you see, if you see it, say it", is too. I got several catchphrases of my own, one is 'what's going off?", another is "what's going on?" i didn't invent them but if you repeat them oftener than anyone else they're yours by default. [and not a lot of people know that], well they do now, "oy! have you seen my washboard?"

[shybearuk]

Absolutely right xyzzy. Me and my friends had LOADS of catchphrases. Unfortunately, with the exception of one ('Your Mum!'), they are all far too risqu� to be shown on a family web page