Heard the slang word de lu lu for the first time today, had a feeling it meant cray cray.
Amazing how new slang words come and go and popular words and expressions too.
I can remember a time when cool things and cool people were heavy and something really amazing was outtasight, or it might have been far out.
I can remember visiting a guru in upstate New York and a young woman who sat next to him at his talks who always said – Excellent! Excellent! ad nauseum, as if the guru had given her that word as her parrot-like mantra. Squawk. Squawk.
And there was a time when bread that you put peanut butter on and even put cheese between the slices of it was considered currency.
For example, “Hey, Man, what’s happening? You got any bread to pay for the tickets to that Grateful Dead Concert?”
And speaking of bread, I recall how when toast became more than bread you heated up in a toaster. And believe me if you valued your reputation or your life, you didn’t want to be toast.
Now I always hear people talking about seeing things through a lens or having to unpack things like topics instead of luggage.
Do they need these lenses because they feel there’s a lack of mental acuity in the world?
And why go to the trouble of unpacking a topic when you can just talk about it? Why include that unnecessary baggage about it?
But in terms of all these slang words and popular expressions, I guess it just is what it is.
Later, time for me to split.
Bob Boyd
