Let's hook up

[ForceUser]

So apparently, I told my boss "Let's have hot man-love and go get tested afterwards!"

That reminds me--anyone else planning on seeing Brokeback Mountain?

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I still use it to connote just "hanging out". Of course, I still say "groovy" "right on", and "dig".

 

[Zander]

So apparently, I told my boss "Let's have hot man-love and go get tested afterwards!"

Don't you mean ex-boss?

 

[Algolei]

Don't you mean ex-boss?

Depends if he said yes or not.

 

[Aeson]

So apparently, I told my boss "Let's have hot man-love and go get tested afterwards!"

That reminds me--anyone else planning on seeing Brokeback Mountain?

If you go by the slang of the day then yep.

I want to see it but I don't know if I'll pay $8 to see it. I think I may go see Munich before any of the other movies this season.

 

[WayneLigon]

Never really heard it used in those terms before, and I had no idea about HI-V. I very seldom ever hear people say 'Let's hook up'. Usually it's 'You want to come with?'. But you're in San Diego so we're probably 2-4 years behind your slang curve

 

[Aeson]

Never really heard it used in those terms before, and I had no idea about HI-V. I very seldom ever hear people say 'Let's hook up'. Usually it's 'You want to come with?'. But you're in San Diego so we're probably 2-4 years behind your slang curve

Alabama tends to be behind the curve on most everything. I'm kidding. The folks here in Georgia have no one else to pick on other than Alabama or Mississippi.

 

[Alenda]

I must admit that the term "hook up" is pretty much synonymous with "shack up" for me, so I wouldn't have said it to my boss.

While on the topic, what about the phrase "get up" when used to mean "get in touch with". For example: "I meant to get up with you this weekend." The first time I ever heard that phrase used, I thought it sounded somewhat scandalous.

 

[ForceUser]

I still use it to connote just "hanging out". Of course, I still say "groovy" "right on", and "dig".

Me too!

I may be riding the wave of change, but I don't surf.

Damn these kids and their new-fangled jargon. This change to slang really annoys me--I say "hook up" all the time. I'm constantly correcting myself now.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

What will the slang of the 22nd century be like? There might be a diversion of the English language. It could possibly have two subgroups; TechnoCant and SteetSpeak. None of us will know, unless some radical breakthrough happens in the field of medicine.