I dunno, but it's WAY famous, dude!

Quote heard at the Louvre in 1988.

While traveling extensively via the youth hostel route, my partner and I noticed two blond California surfer types staring at the statue of the Victory of Samothrace which loomed from a landing on the stairs leading up from the main floor of the museum. This is the verbatim exchange between the two youths:

Surfer 1: Wow! What is THAT?

Surfer 2: I dunno, but it's WAY famous, dude!

As this phrase (no doubt) percolates through the popular consciousness as of now, find here its initial historic debut.