October 25, 2006 7:41 pm
Here’s the hot new buzz straight outta Hollywood, CA. I just got the line from my bro who lives out that way; he keeps me up to date on all the new sensations sweeping the nation. This is from the Snoop d-oh-double-g hisself, so you know it’s legit. This is a replacement for “What’s crack-a-lackin?”: “What it do, nephew?”. That’s right. Work it into your vocabulary now, folks, because soon everybody will be saying it and since you were there first, people will flock to you. Stay tuned to this channel for more late-breaking news as it comes piping hot and steaming fresh to me from Socal.
October 25th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Mr. Hankens you are on the cutting edge of cool and I consider myself immensely lucky to be in the know, and I have already spread it to one person, that being one of my roommates so here we go…
October 26th, 2006 at 4:42 am
wait, slow down, I’m confused…. what’s a Socal and how do I buy one?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Eric, this just made me miss all of your little things you always said. And I'm said that you're replacing "crack-a-lackin". That's all I have to say.
October 26th, 2006 at 8:58 am
[…] Despite what some people’s painfully hip family members claim, “What it do, nephew” is not a socially acceptable term and is hardly a replacement for tried and true variations like “sup”. I prefer my salutations etymologically spawned sometime in the murky past, perhaps the 80’s, not some rapacious, festering breeding ground for the supposed creators of cool. How the daily ingestion of pounds of Jamaican leaf, rapping, and the occaisonal (bad) movie role can authorize you to spontaneously generate catchphrases baffles me. Even uttered in sarcasm, “what it do, nephew” is an affront to any modern vocabulary, and its stumbling attempt at rhyme only makes it worse. I shall not mention it again! […]
October 26th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I have to commend that pinnacle of culture, Snoop Dogg. It does make sense, plus it does rhyme. I like it, and I’ll start using it in conversation. Hurrah.