ah'm down wi'dat

With Ryan going off to college this fall, I am going to be even further out of the hip loop than ever. He was my pulse point. Jylle fills me in some, but most of her talk is peppered with the friend dramas that go on like small fires all around girls her age.

Fortunately, there's the Internet! I was looking for some hip term for "all dolled up" and came across a slang dictionary. Some of the stuff is funny, some plain mean, and some just make clever, wry sense.

404.
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message '404 Not Found' meaning that the requested web page could not be located.
Note: I actually tagged this onto my myspace name 2 years ago, and no one knew what I was talking about. Who hasn't hit a 404 Not Found page?!

ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by
sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

MONKEY BATH
A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: 'Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!'.

PRAIRIE DOGGING.
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

SALMON DAY.
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

SEAGULL MANAGER.
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person.

Yo, peace out.