Shizzle My Nizzle

I thought I was lame, but I saw something that convinced me otherwise. Our local newspaper recently ran an article defining many of the “hip” terms that the kids are using these days. I felt like I was looking at a prop from an old “Brothers’ Brothers” skit from In Living Color. It was obviously meant as a reference for parents and other authority figures who find themselves completely baffled by today’s teenspeak and needed a handy guide. Part of me hopes this was meant as a joke, because some of the definitions were so lame it was painful. When you have to define what “cool” means, it’s just not, well, cool anymore.

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