Comments on: The youth minister that tries to talk like the kids.

By: thoughtriver

thoughtriver — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:26:13 +0000

amazing post. man, so funny. I am totally down with this plan and shall implement it posthaste.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:57:00 +0000

Haha!This is funny as always, wot?

I have had a few embarrasing moments with the "make up your own coolness" words...

When I was about fourteen or fifteen, I decided that "never in a million lightyears" (I'm sure I don't have to explain to you that I made it up myself) was my new cool phrase. Yeah. And then I used it in a sentence. In public. With a new aquaintance.

Never done that again.

By: Capella

Capella — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:33:00 +0000

Stacy:
Amend and amen!
We DO need to incorporate more “trousers”, “pantaloons” and “bloomers” into our every-day speech!
I was just thinking about it today.
I mean, pants is a funny work, but “trousers” is like verbal caramel!

By: Ne'er-Do-Good

Ne'er-Do-Good — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:40:00 +0000

Jon, I'm pretty sure it's actually spelled "wiggidy wack".

I don't know if anyone else experienced this, but at my school, "Doy" morphed into about 10 other, similar nonsense words. For example, one could say:
No doy!
No dur!
No duh!
No dee!
or my personal favorite, No dee-fo!, a phrase that presumably came from a big Willem Defoe fan.
I've been trying to bring these back, with verying degrees of success.

Right, then. Pip pip, cheerio, chin-up and all that rot.

By: Christina

Christina — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:29:00 +0000

If the youth workers try to be like teenagers, who do the teenagers have to look up to?

By: pkillur

pkillur — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:20:00 +0000

OK, the funniest thing I’ve ever heard in a youth group setting – Circa 2002 when I was helping out with the youthgroup in my brother-in-law’s church (he’s way younger than me):

Youth Pastor busts out with a little “Dude that is DEF!”

Except, while this crescendo of his sermon is expectant of the cheer, it got crickets…

By: robyn collins

robyn collins — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:25:00 +0000

yo diggety dog, your posts are hawt!!!

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:54:00 +0000

Funny story. In the early 90s when SNL’s “Wayne’s World” was a big hit, one of the boys in our youth group used the term “Schwing!” all the time. Our youth pastor had no idea what it REALLY meant, so he picked up the word & started using it, too. Before long, several of us decided we had to tell him what it was he was saying before he messed up & said it from the pulpit. He was soooooooo embarassed to learn that he’d used “Schwing!” in front of the entire youth group & had even said it a few times in church staff meetings. Poor guy was SO embarassed!

By: niarfodnof

niarfodnof — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:01:00 +0000

"am I at least allowed to txt in their language?"

lol. my dad texts like I imagine a 13 year old would.

cool is "kewl"
You are is "Ur"
love is "luv"
etc.

It either cracks me up or embarrasses me depending on my moood.

By: Aristox

Aristox — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:32:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis isnt English. He’s Northern Irish.