Funny Messy Life

   I’m always the last one to the party when it comes to whatever whippors the younger generation is snapping. Just when I felt comfortable using words like “Bad” to describe something as good, I was told that I’m behind the times. Suddenly “Dope” was the term used for something good; no longer the term we used for drugs. Add to that the fact that being in possession of a particularly powerful drug meant that you had gotten your hands on “The Good Stuff”, and life could get confusing. This was all years ago while I was still a kid. I was the fogey among my friends, I suppose.    But as I get older, I find the trend of lagging culturally behind has remained in place while the new slang gets more and more weird. At one point in time, the phrase, “Sup Yo” was an admonition for a dude named Yo to partake in a meal or a glass of tea. Now it’s a question you ask in passing to your buddy or your ex gym teacher if he was the sort of educator who liked to “hang” with you or considered you his “homey”. Even recently, I