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			| taxwonk | 01-05-2006 05:14 PM |  
 Confidential to he whose screen name is too long for me to send him a PM
 
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		| Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
 What's to get?  It's not about brevity.  It's about creativity.  "Ghost" takes as long to say as "out."  Someone (I think Grand Puba was the first, but I could easily be wrong) took it a step further and started saying, "I'm Swayze" (pronounced Swayz or Swayzee, depending).
 
 "5,000" is short for "Audi 5,000 or 5Gs" because people used to say "I'm Audi" instead of "out."
 
 TM
 
 |  Oh you negroes and your colorful language!!!  We must have lunch at the club some day and discuss this whole "street" lingo thing.  I think it could catch on in the entertainment field in a big way, perhaps in the form of word poems set to music, or what the hippies used to call "rapping?" |