Dankest

So... today, I used some drug terminology to describe a youth church event... to the youth church and the Twitter community. At first, mortification set in as I realized what had just happened. Here's the said sentence: "You ready to kill? Tonight we're taking down another ugly giant! Don't miss out! After, join us for the dankest party with the sickest food!"

Immediately, I had 3 responses asking me why I would talk about our events like they're marijuana... yeah, embarrassment happened 'earl quick. See? I just did it again. earl. In my head, it's just a way to say 'real'... urban dictionary says: earl = slang for throwing up, cheap hash made and sold on the street, or the New Orleans way of saying 'oil'.

I looked up some more... gnar: Lorelei's usage: pretty stinkin' rad. UD = gnarly, awesome, good snow if you're a snowboarder. gnarkill: Lorelei's usage = either ridiculously cool or really, really gross (like when I had to clean up dog puke at the vet) UD = synonym for awesomeness i.e. Robert, Billy, Devon and Greg are all gnarkill gangsters.

I don't know any gangsters... but I wouldn't call them gnarkill.

So, this little explanation is all to say... that I ended up laughing... a lot.

My dad, who used to be a pot head before he got saved in his twenties, uses the word dank or dankest (as well as Killer) when describing a movie or book or album he really liked. It must be an old habit carried over, but it is used to describe only High Quality weed. I s'pose I got it from him. The dad dictionary. Too bad I couldn't explain this to the youth church... or the Twitter community, but here it is, right here on my blog. Next time The NXT sends out a mass text, it will be drug free.

And I'll pay more attention to my use of vocabulary, because what I think is harmless may not always be so. I might be encouraging kids to come smoke weed with me and my pastors.