“Oh righteous, my brothers!” could be heard by La Jolla Chicken as he finished his set in the 1951 Long Board surfing competition off the sands of Manhattan Beach, California.
“Did you feel that curl? Totally Tubular” he continued, “Cowabunga”.
But where did the term cowabunga come from? Now you know.
Some give credit for the term to the Ninja Turtle franchise but that’s a load of chicken droppings.
Others point to the words uttered by Bill LeCornec as Chief Thunderthud on the Howdy Doody show but deep research shows that he didn’t do it until 1953. A full two years after La Jolla used it in that interview.
There was even a conspiracy that those were the last words of Gandhi but that’s simply hard to believe.
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