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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Are you hip wit it?

During my first year of teaching, my most valuable resource has been Urbandictionary.com.
Let’s have scavenger hunt, kids. What did my students mean when they said the following phrases?

“Stay flossin’, McGowan”
“Did she notice your yeyo shirt?”
“Stop talking. Ms. McGowan’s giving us the thizz face!” [Followed my murmurs of “I can’t believe you just said that to her!”]
“Are you going to get hyphy this weekend?”
“I love grapes, don’t you? They’re my favorite type of produce.” [When they say strange shit like this, I know to immediately consult the urban dictionary]
“We’re going to make you a myspace!” [Okay, you shouldn’t have to look that one up. I included it because it is the most common phrase that my students mutter. Followed by “I did my essay, but my printer’s broken” and “I wasn’t doing anything wrong!”]
“The Yay Area’s the best place to be, Yaddimean?”
“This is hella dumb.” [That’s for you SoCal folks. Ha.]
“I don’t know why the administration made me change my shirt; it was just a picture of a snowman. I like snow! Don’t you?”
“You should come to our parties. We just have tea. It’s innocent.”

4 comments:

Jessica said...

Oh man, I love these things!

Jessica said...

1. flossin'
30 up, 1 down
1. To drive around in a nice car with the top down.
2. Generally living large; living life well.
3. That sexy activity endorsed by dental hygienists and other anal-retentive folk.

Jessica said...

Are you living life well, driving around in your sweet ride, flashing your grill, here in the Yayarea?

Ms. McGowan said...

Oooh. Grill! That's another one!