Mine is 25%.
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As I was about to start on some tangent about g-mail mailboxes, Cindy got a text. But Cindy is at Nania's bridal shower, and her phone sitting here on the table next to me.
The text was from an unidentified number, and it said,
Don't forget to email me how much I owe and then I can send you a check asap!!! Thanks again Cindy for all your hardworking on this wknd!
Safe to assume it's a friend of Nania's in from out of town for the bachelorette party last night.
I can also see the previous text from the same number received at midnight last night that said:
Hey Cindy, I didn't chip in for nan's drinks before I left. Please let me know how much I owe for that tomorrow. Sorry abut that!!
(Cindy didn't respond)
The only other text in their conversation was from the other girl 3:31pm yesterday saying:
In the cab nearby, I think! ;$
(I don't know what kind of face ;$ is supposed to be. I googled it and got the rare, "Your search - ;$ - did not match any documents."
Since Cindy hadn't responded to either of the previous texts from this girl, I thought maybe I should reply just to acknowledge that Cindy received the them.
So what should I respond? For some reason, the first thought that popped into my head was:
Fo shizzle
Then it struck me that it's possibile that this girl might not know what "Fo shizzle" means.
If Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to his friend reminding him to send him a bill, and the friend replied with a letter that simply said "Fo shizzle" would Jefferson have any idea what it meant?
It ain't the King's.
At this point I had built "Fo shizzle" up enough to where I wanted to know if this girl knew what "Fo shizzle" meant, so I sent the text.
How did "Fo shizzle" even sneak its way into my pretentiously un-pretentious vernacular?
I remember Snoop Dog saying stuff like that. There was one particular instance of it on Chapelle's show that probably made it stick with Cindy and I. (I think it had to be because my next instinct after typing "Fo shizzle" was to follow it with "My nizzle" --- which is what he said on the show.)
I googled "Fo shizzle."
It turns out that Snoop probably got from E-40, which makes sense because E-40 is pretty much the Pied Piper of Slang. I remember enjoying watching E-40 interviews on Rap City when I was a kid, but I didn't like his music, so I'd tune in for the interview, and then flip the channel after a minute of the song. Maybe Snoop did too.
Thx!!!I guess she must have been watching E-40 interviews too.
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Marginally related note. I just finished reading Seal Team Six by Howard Wasdin last week. (It was pretty good.) At one point he's telling a story about a black guy saying to another black guy, "Nigga please."
But instead of spelling out Nigga with the "a" at the end, Wasdin---who is white---wrote, "Nigger please."
That had to be discussed at the editing table, right?
1 comment:
My gmail inbox is 28% full.
Yeah, the "izzles" were popularized by Snoop, but I think it's a Bay area thing.
I really enjoy E-40, 1 of my favorite songs is "Captain Save a Hoe." LOL!
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