Keep on truckin

Someone laughed at me this morning for saying that something was 'the bomb.' They told me that I was behind the times and that no one says that anymore. I admit that this term goes back at least eight or nine years, but when does a slang term become uncool?

Terms like 'cool' and 'awesome' still appear in conversations all over the place, so I guess it's arbitrary when it comes to which phrases are still socially acceptable. I know that 'neat' and 'radical' will get you an atomic wedgie when your back is turned. I just can't believe that I'm losing touch with what's cool. It happened to my mom and now it's happening to me. I can just imagine myself not understanding anything that my kids do. They'll be like: POPS! You don't understand what it is to be VARSNAX! You still think that things are 'the bomb!' (varsnax would be the new hip word in the year 2020)

There should be an online reference to what terms are cool and not cool. In the mean time, I will stick to my sounds sans words technique. That's when you use a sound and a facial expression to convey how you're feeling, instead of using words. Someone once asked me how I liked a movie and I went: "It was unh... a bit on the meh, nnngana.. ::hand gesture:: " and they knew exactly what I was trying to say.

Wendy's tried to steal my idea with a commercial with people explaining what they wanted to eat using only sounds. They sucked.