Slang Connection

 

I've done a few of these slang posts, but slang keeps changing so I have to keep making more. 

Old posts: 2018 2020 2021 2021b

Explanation: Drip coffee is a thing (when you make it in a pot) that is not not Keurig coffee (when you make it from a little cup thing that gets water poured through it). Something being drip is apparently a good thing per the current slang? 

Text:
A: How do we connect with the youths?
B: Say "this coffee be drip."
A: ... but it's Keurig?

Can Stop

I don't know why this is/was a phrase, but it was rather popular for a while. I think "let's go" is now popular instead, and that's fine in my opinion. I feel like the phrase "can't stop, won't stop" can be a way to deflect responsibility for one's own actions. But that's just my opinion.

Text:
A: Can't stop, won't stop!
B: More like: could stop, won't stop. 

SWAK the Covenant

Happy almost Birthday to my grandma!
This comic is also spawned by a sermon, one that talked about marriage. Back in the like 90's, SWAK meant to "Seal With A Kiss" and it was used on envelopes to mean you were sending your love, at least that's what I recall about it. I had some stickers and I remember one of them was SWAK. I really liked stickers and would put them all over my pen pal letters. Wow, the 90's were a while ago. Hand-made letters are still a nice thing to do, but I stick with making cards for people which are a type of letter so that still counts I think. 

Explanation: Usually, the minister ends the marriage ceremony by saying "By the power vested in me, you may kiss your bride" or something along those lines. SWAK means to seal with a kiss, usually meaning seal an envelope, but in this case it would be sealing a covenant and I think the slang works. It would just be super informal at an official ceremony. But many weddings are not super formal. So use at your discretion. Wow, I super misspelled that last word but spell checker had my back. 

Extra note: Back in my college days, a pastor mentioned how after he was ordained, a friend asked him to officiate a marriage. Unsure if he could, he called up his dad who was also a minister and asked "Do I have THE POWER?" Upon further inquiry ("son, what in the world are you talking about?"), he specified if he had the power to say "by the power vested in me", and his dad told him that since he was ordained then he did indeed have THE POWER. 

Text:
Minister: By the power vested in me, please SWAK this covenant!
Bride and Groom: *standing there, maybe awkwardly*

All About the Slang

Happy Birthday to my Grandmother! I love going to her house - I am very grateful for the godly influence she has been on me my whole life. 

I have yet to try this sort of speech on any of the kids with which I interact, but I feel it would be rather funny to do. Here and here are other versions of this comic - I just make a new version when certain slang runs together in my mind. I will probably keep making these as more slang gets invented and I get old and more confused by it. 

Text:
Title: How To: Talk To the Youths
A: Can you help me TikTok a fleek slap of Angry Birds?
Y: *CRINGE*

Flipside

 

Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law! I forget where I heard this phrase but the response immediately came to mind. There was a devotional I was doing in the YouVersion app where the man said something about "Side B" and that's another phrase from back in the day. I remember a kid at my church finding a floppy disc (3.5) and not having a clue what it was. How do you even get info off a floppy? You'd have to find a drive that can take it. Kind of like getting info off a VHS. We were trying to transfer info between my computer and my husband's computer and we realized the easiest way was to use a thumb drive, but then we had to search around to find one. Oh technology, you just keep changing. Also, are visors (like the orange one the cool man is wearing) coming back into style? I feel like they could. So much of fashion is in cycles and if you hold onto stuff it'll come back (hopefully not all fashions do that, let's just leave massive shoulder pads in the past but wait they could be used for drone landing platforms). 

Text:
A: Catch you on the flipside!
B: What does that even mean?!?
C: It means he thinks the 90's were cool.