Emails from Hip Old Folks. If by hip, you mean hip breaking.

Errn-- This is the music video I helped in!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GribQCg6c&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GribQCg6c&feature=player_embedded They just put it on youtube today. Its this provo group called "Can't Stop Won't Stop" and the video is of a bike jump at Alpine. You can see me around 2:14!! Hahaha.... I wouldn't do the jump itself though, because I don't have a death wish. But I acted as doctor lady for pretty much the whole day, disinfecting and anitizing and nursing wounds... and trust me, there were a whole heckuva lotta wounds to be dealt with. So I dealt. Haha :) Cool song, right?

Dadster--Check this out. My daughter, the cameo video star!

Uncle Bob--Erin looks like she is having a great time and it looks like they needed a doctor. As for the rest of them one word comes to mind...morons! My rule is simple. Never engage in a hobby that can get you killed (or a lifetime seat in a wheelchair). The song did rock though....see I can still be "cool"

Kaytay--I realize it's November and I am arriving very late to this discussion (as always), but I must say the following things: Firstly: Dad? Did you really just say the song "rocked"? *cough cough*...no one under 30 has actually said that since the 90s. Just saying. Secondly: Erin, I'm jealous. Having been raised with three brothers, and always having been a tomboy myself (I wasn't actually a girl until 7th grade true story) things like this draw me like a moth to flame. Not that I would do it myself, although I would WISH that I could work up the guts to do it. I think the most dangerous thing I've ever done was jump my bike off into the 2-foot ditch at our south fork house.

Karen--So just for educational purposes, what is the current terminology to indicate that a song rocks?

Dadster--It doesn't matter you old geezerette, you wouldn't understand anyway. I'm entering my second childhood, so it all makes sense to me. Yo dog.

Momsicle--Heh, heh, heh....perhaps if you have to ask...? Umm, I may suggest (having taught teenagers for 2 years just recently): 'wicked', 'sick', 'freaking awesome', and 'kewl' for starters or sometimes a combination of said terms.... ;-)
"That song is wicked!" "Dude, that group is sick, they are so good!" "Whoa! Did you hear their last CD? It was freaking awesome!!"
But hey, FYI, I think it's perfectly fine for someone who actually IS over 30 to use 'rocks' because we don't want to sound like a bunch of teenagers, do we? [I actually debated putting 'unsophisticated' or 'uneducated' or some other adjective in front of teenagers but decided not to because I do not want to offend the younger crowd...including those in their second childhood who may think they are younger....]

Errn--All you really need to know is the addition of "Freaking" onto pretty much anything. For example,
"Freaking A" = frustration and/or anger "Freaking great" = marvelous and pretty much anything else you can think of.
One favorite I find that Utards like to say is "Stinkin." "Stinkin cute, stinkin awesome,' etc. Just FYI.

Karen--Utards are people from Utah?

Dadster--Certain ones. It's the western version of red neck.

Adumb--To follow up with freaking, I might add that there is the slightly more expressive and vulgar friggin, used interchangeably with freaking. Mom, by implying you would use "unsophisticated" with teenagers but decided not to in order not to offend anyone...doesn't that actually make it worse?

Momsicle--To Adam--Duh.

Karen--What a stinkin' education I have gotten today. What a wicked sick day it has been. Freakin G! :>)

Momsicle--I think you have to use 'stinkin' in front of another adjective like 'cute' or 'awesome'. ;) You could say--

'What a legit education I got today. This day has been totally sick: No more ID10T calls + that wicked cute dude finally asked me out = Freaking Awesome‼

Karen--I have now been properly schooled! Freaking Awesome!

Kaytay--Oh dear. What have I done?!

Dadster--I'll say! Next time you see Aunt Karen she'll be wearing her shorts on backwards, hanging down to her ankles with a green New York Yankees hat on worn sideways (with, of course, the tag still on it). And she'll go by the name "Spookie".

Adumb--All of your verbiage is viable except for 'legit.' They stopped using that one shortly after MC Hammer hung up his pants in the proverbial closet. 'Wicked' still seems like more of a Boston thing, but I guess you could use it...

Dadster--Yeah---legit. Give me a break.

Momsicle--Please. Someone who even uses the phrase 'verbiage is viable' doesn't have a leg to stand on, Mr. Linguist Person.

And Dave? This from the man who admits he's in his second childhood? I'm not listening to someone with the mind of a child either....

Errn--I must confess to regularly using the word "legit."

It must be where she picked it up from.

I hang my head in shame.

Momsicle--It's okay, Erin. You are a 'legit' young person. I didn't listen to your brother OR your father for advice on this.

Dadster-- Clearly, the kind of deep, thought provoking dialogue we Paulukaitises are known for. A fitting conclusion? If only I could burp over e-mail...

Uncle Bob-- OK let me get this straight...

I am getting grief from the child that I brought into the world and who I have fed, clothed and educated for the last 17 years because I used the term "rocked."

I majored in Geology....I "rocked" my way through 4 years of college.

As for Karen's new look: I suggest you borrow the name that I use when I overnight in Detroit, don all my "bling" and want to blend in with the crowd: "White Chocolate."

Karen-- I like White Chocolate. I'll go with that!

WC