Catch phrases…

Unexpected when first heard, they catch you in mid step. Sometimes they are only one word, other times it’s how they are said with a local twang. Many of us have a habit of picking them up and throwing them back out in the wind without really knowing we are using them.

It use to be that these gems started in a region in the country and took months to travel coast to coast. But within today’s mass communications and the internet gold mine phrases are in popular use within days.

Nice ride… all in, dude… chill… some are older ones. They seem to spring up like fall mushrooms.

From where I sit, I am in one of the last places that get hit or to be in on the bounce of the hip-hop world and it’s jargon. The fast progression of word creation seems to make a slow U-turn at the Wisconsin state line... Ya hay.
Will we hard headed cheese heads ever catch up to nation lingo? or should we….
the answer is…. u bet ch, or no