# Not the hippest .... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158 "2011-06-28T17:09:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/21 "2011-06-29T13:30:27Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And I tried _so_ hard! ☹ Well, I don’t know how official any of these rankings really are[.](http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheEnglishPatient.html) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/22 "2011-06-29T14:42:18Z")
I’m so unhip I can’t keep my pants on. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/23 "2011-06-29T20:23:00Z")
My first thought was “chick on the block”… Thinking about it, maybe (something) in the hood? “'ho” is nicely alliterative but might be offensive! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/24 "2011-06-30T16:15:09Z")
hippest pelvis As in, “I’m so hip I can’t see over my own pelvis!” courtesy of Zaphod Beeblebrox. But most of the people I interact with at work aren’t the literary sort, so it would probably go over as well as what you said. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/25 "2011-06-30T16:23:00Z")
…geriatric in the retirement home. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/26 "2011-06-30T16:35:25Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Potamus? [Hiphopapotamus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liV_BBdq96s). ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/27 "2011-06-30T16:37:33Z")
…tree in the forest …flower in the field …bee in the bonnet …hippy in the Haight Okay, I got nuthin. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/28 "2011-06-30T17:25:56Z")
I like what you said. I would have laughed and probably stolen it and used it myself. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/29 "2011-06-30T22:08:14Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > My first thought was “chick on the block”… > > Thinking about it, maybe (something) in the hood? “'ho” is nicely alliterative but might be offensive! I like hippest ho in the hood quite a bit … it’s so patently bizarre in my case that the offensiveness is negligible. ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/30 "2011-07-01T00:37:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And I tried _so_ hard! ☹ That’s where you went wrong - everyone knows it’s not hip to try hard at anything. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/31 "2011-07-01T00:53:51Z")
> [@rekkah](#): > > That’s where you went wrong - everyone knows it’s not hip to try hard at anything. I wasn’t trying to be hip, I was sucking up to the Twicks. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/32 "2011-07-01T03:37:22Z")
Not the hippest poet in the salon… Not the hippest sax in the band… Not the hippest surrealist in the peanut butter… Wow, that’s a tough one. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/33 "2011-07-01T14:50:00Z")
Surrealist is pretty good, though. How about “not the hippest half-caf soy latte in the Starbucks”? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/34 "2011-07-01T15:46:12Z")
Not the hippest hipster in Hip-town …which would clearly be demonstrated by uttering that phrase 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158/35 "2011-07-01T15:50:48Z")
Your original response (“hepcat among the daddios”) is so perfect that I will attempt to remember it forever, in case the set up should come up in my life [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-hippest/587158.md?page=1)