# "Hip" phrases to drive my kids wild **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217 "2007-08-28T14:03:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/41 "2007-08-28T18:16:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] You could throw in some 1920’s slang: the bee’s knees the cat’s meow the cat’s pajamas [/QUOTE] That’ll make ‘em do the ol’ 23-skidoo! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/42 "2007-08-28T18:20:32Z")
Or you can go the opposite direction, ala Guy Fieri of the Food Channel, and refer to anything your are impressed with as “some random noun.” Guy’s favorite is “That’s so _money_!” Make up your own, the more unconnected, the better. “That show was totally lawn, man. A real brick. Mosquito.” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/43 "2007-08-28T18:21:13Z")
Call them “gay wads”. Tell them “their shit is wack / fly” You are not leaving, you are “Audi”. If you really want to be hip you are “Audi 5000” or simply “Audi five”. Insist that you are not to be called “dad” or “father”, you are to be called “Daddy-o”. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/44 "2007-08-28T18:23:11Z")
Yo, zat da Crunk! …or go all JJ Walker on em. I’m Dynooo-MITE! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/45 "2007-08-28T18:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=Dinsdale] Great suggestions, folks. Keep em coming - because that’s the way I roll! [/QUOTE] Tell them they’re harshing your mellow. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/46 "2007-08-28T18:41:52Z")
Don’t forget to do the ‘raise the roof’ motion with your hands at every chance. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/47 "2007-08-28T18:52:09Z")
“Mom, are you still taking us to the movies?” “It’s on like Donkey Kong!” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/48 "2007-08-28T18:58:58Z")
Remember, parents, these words of wisdom from the Simpsons (and one of my favorite episodes to boot.) > [@](#): > > ``` > Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important > than being cool. > Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. > Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". > Lisa: That song is so lame. > Homer: So lame that it's... cool? > > ``` > > Bart+Lisa: No. > Marge: Am I cool, kids? > Bart+Lisa: No. > Marge: Good. I’m glad. And that’s what makes me cool, not caring, > right? > Bart+Lisa: No. > Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we’ve tried > everything here. > Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you’re truly cool, you don’t need to > be told you’re cool. > Bart: Well, sure you do. > Lisa: How else would you know? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/49 "2007-08-28T19:06:16Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Guy’s favorite is “That’s so _money_!” Make up your own, the more unconnected, the better. “That show was totally lawn, man. A real brick. Mosquito.” [/QUOTE] I don’t know. That’s sounds so totally bucket. **Pithy Moniker** , I’m squee that you spelunk my level to your chimps, but I have to quizzical – when you spelunk it do you descibe the rapper hands, or just do it? ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/50 "2007-08-28T19:09:25Z")
My wife was referred to as a couger and asked our daughter if that is a good thing? My daughter said at least they didn’t call you a milf. I had to explain. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/51 "2007-08-28T19:16:14Z")
[QUOTE=Mikemike2] My wife was referred to as a couger and asked our daughter if that is a good thing? My daughter said at least they didn’t call you a milf. I had to explain. [/QUOTE] Um, how could being called a MILF be a bad thing? (If referring to someone who is indeed a mother, or old enough to be one.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/52 "2007-08-28T19:21:54Z")
**Mikemike2** , I’m glad your wife isn’t a member of the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front. Because that would be the bomb. Is that what the kids today call it? The bomb? Because bombs are bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/53 "2007-08-28T20:12:58Z")
“Dude, you’re harshing my mellow” - is one that my youngest and I say often. Re the mention of Jimmy Walker - after our round Saturday we were in the clubhouse watching the golf tourney, and they were showing a player named Jim Walker. We were all doing the Dy-no-mite thing like a bunch of idiots. When my kids were very young - just learning to speak, I tried to get them to call me either Cool Cat Dad or Daddyo. Didn’t take. Tho I do have a picture hanging in my office that one of my kids did when quite young, that is captioned “Cool Cat Dad.” ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/54 "2007-08-28T21:27:59Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] **Pithy Moniker** , I’m squee that you spelunk my level to your chimps, but I have to quizzical – when you spelunk it do you descibe the rapper hands, or just do it? [/QUOTE] I abso-shizzle-lutely do both! My peepz think it’s totally garden gnome! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/55 "2007-08-28T21:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=Dinsdale] When my kids were very young - just learning to speak, I tried to get them to call me either Cool Cat Dad or Daddyo. Didn’t take. Tho I do have a picture hanging in my office that one of my kids did when quite young, that is captioned “Cool Cat Dad.” [/QUOTE] You’ve always struck me as a Captain Groovy. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/56 "2007-08-28T21:34:05Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] “Sweet” always used to drive my kids nuts. [/QUOTE] Also, “tight”. But, uhm. Apparently I have to hang my head in shame because I actually use “that’s the way I roll” in an unironic sense. I’m only 25! How can I be not cool already?! That’s fucking lamppost, man. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/57 "2007-08-28T21:51:43Z")
Pretty much any slang I use around my steps is greeted with groans…so it’s all good. I use a lot of surfer slang, “cool,” “groovy,” what-EVA. Pretty much anything hip-hop will grizzle their tizzle, but it has to be done in the whitest possible accent you can muster (think Dave Chapelle doing an impersonation). Or you could call them your niggas. So, are you trying to scare them into using the King’s English or something? ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/58 "2007-08-28T21:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] You are not leaving, you are “Audi”. If you really want to be hip you are “Audi 5000” or simply “Audi five”. [/QUOTE] I’m almost sure that it’s “outee”, like “I’m out”. But I’ve been uncool since foreva-eva, so don’t take my word for it. When hubby and I want to play that we’re cool, we call each other player or baller. And parents, the more recent the slang, the more embarrassing it is. “Groovy” and “daddy-o” can be scoffed at, because you can’t possibly be trying to be cool with that dated stuff. Doing Borat imitations or pretending you like new bands is way more eye-roll inducing. Yo player, did you catch the MCR concert last night? It was tight! Nikki Tikki, 25 years old and already out of touch. ---
**Author:** ![AnonymousCowherder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@AnonymousCowherder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnonymousCowherder)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/59 "2007-08-28T22:03:31Z")
[QUOTE=Mikemike2] My wife was referred to as a couger and asked our daughter if that is a good thing? My daughter said at least they didn’t call you a milf. I had to explain. [/QUOTE] Are you sure you don’t have the terms mixed up in your post? The term cougar implies the desires of the woman, whereas MILF describes the desires of the commentor. Unless of course you are about 25 and your wife is 35+, in which case congrats on being couged. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217/60 "2007-08-28T22:08:23Z")
Refer to your car as a “whip”. “Grabbin my whip, brb”. Pack the kids into it, then floor it and yell out, “VTEC just kicked in YO!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hip-phrases-to-drive-my-kids-wild/417217.md?page=4)