The story behind "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is actually quite fascinating. You see, William Tager was the local psycho in New York. He thought CBSNews was beaming signals into his head. Naturally, when he saw Dan Rathers walking down the street, he ran up and beat the crap out of him, repeatedly requesting the frequency of the signals so he can stop them, while addressing Rathers as "Kenneth" for no apparent reason to this date.

After this freak event, Tager later shot a CBSNews stagehand. He was then arrested, and told his therapist all the beans.

R.E.M. made a song called "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" The phrase became a nationwide phenomenon. Whenever a cat fell off a roof and killed an old lady, they'd shout it. Whenever they didn't understand a homework question, they'd shout it. And if by any chance, that one son Tager had had with that old lady makes it past the age of five and notices that CBSNews is undetectedly taking over the world through brain control, he may see that one creepy guy who replaced Dan Rathers walking down the street while having a nice stroll down New York and beat the crap out of him, saying "KENNETH, WHAT IS THE FREQUENCY!?"
Teacher: "When A and X are both positive integers in the equation a(4/4)=x and Y is a negative integer in the equation xy=a2, what is the value of Y? Billy?"

Billy: "HOLY CRAP! WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH!!?"
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When someone is all up in your "kool-aid" either by accident or on purpose. When someone is too close for your particular comfort.
While you are working on your PC and some guy comes up looking over your shoulder and his junk bangs into your shoulder. Or maybe a barber leans too close while you are under the shroud in a barbers chair, "junking" your arm or elbow that is rested on the barbers chair arm rest. You would at this point exclaim, "How 'bout hangin' back, ya jammin' my frequencies!"
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A phrase that was used by a random insane guy that he repeated over and over again as he beat up Dan Rather. Now it's basically used as an exclamation whenever something insane happens and people over-react to it.
"HOLY SHIT! MY CAT JUST FELL OFF MY ROOF AND KILLED MY GRANDMA!"-Guy 1
"HOLY SHIT"-Guy 2
"OMG! WTF! WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY KENNETH!"-Nihilist
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To establish communication, esp. with someone previously unknown or far away.
"Wow, did you see those TT's? I'm gonna open hailing frequencies on her."
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"She was fine, until she got zapped with the sounds of the Low Frequency Bootilator."
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i. Something that is evil
ii. Something that appears to have been created or generated for evil purposes.
iii. Originally from the TV series 'Nightman', who could listen to people's bad thoughts because he was "tuned to the frequency of evil"
This IDE raid controller is tuned to the frequency of evil.
by Jols September 2, 2003
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