Q: How does Snoop Dogg wash his clothes?
A: With ble-ach!
This joke got peals of laughter from my kids and a meta-kid at lunch yesterday–I just looked blank, which made the joke more sweet.
They kindly explained: Snoop Dogg is a musician, famous these days for creating his own mini-language. For example, when he says “Be-ach” (a lot), he means the word Barbara Bush euphemized as “something that rhymes with witch.”
Another Snoop-Dogg-language feature is using “izzle.” You can stick izzle in the middle of any word–the example I got was that “Holyoke Center” becomes “Holy-izzle-oke Centrizzle.”
An expert can substitute “izzle” for most of most of a word–“Fa shizzle” in Snoop-Dogg language means “For sure.”
I was impressed and jealous that all three kids could perfectly speak and understand Snizzle Dizzle–while I had to think it out slowly, word by word.
Back in my bubble-gum days, we “fooled” our parents with “ig-Pay atin-Lay.” Many years later–our parents were too smart to tell us–we found out Pig Latin had been our parents’ private kid-language too.
Kids now are too smart to make that same mistake. Son of a bee-ach–it doesn’t seem fair, fa shizzle.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Elayne Riggs // Oct 8, 2003 at 8:30 am
You mean you don’t know about the Shizzolator? Tsk. :)
2 Gary Farber // Oct 8, 2003 at 2:59 pm
http://www.asksnoop.com/