Urban legends have always fascinated me (pop rocks & cola, toothing, Oliver North & Osama bin Laden, phrogging, syringes in the ball pit, etc.). I think it would be awesome to create one, although I've never made any effort to do so. But I do enjoy a good discussion about such things. Recently, the talk veered from creating an urban legend to creating slang.
As a slightly off-kilter high school student, I was always full of ridiculous ideas. Among other things, I attempted to transform normal words into popular slang after my very own language didn't catch on. At the time, I was quite chagrined that my efforts failed. In retrospect, I've come to realize that my efforts were doomed from the start by unbridled nerdiness in that all the words were geometry terms.
Me: "Wow, Jess, that skirt is so perpendicular!"
Them: "What? Is my skirt crooked? Ohmigod, is it tucked into my underwear?"
Me: "Have you heard that new band yet? They're freakin' theorom as hell."
Them: "What? They - what? Is that bad?"
Me: "Stop acting like such a rhombus, Brandon, or I'm telling Mom!"
Them: "Telling Mom what? I'm only 7. What's a rhombus? Is that swearing? I think you're swearing. Mooooooooommmmmm! She's swearing at me!"
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