Sexy genarians in dem twilight years
Almost four years ago when Judy first proposed writing this column we racked our brains long and hard to find a short snappy phrase to explain what it was all about and convince your editor to publish us. We settled on, “A total furtherance and utter celebration of mutual affection in ‘dem Twilight Years.”
Adding, if that wasn’t clear enough, “by a sexagenarian couple who still love sunsets, travel, good food, fine wines and each other. Often but not necessarily in that order.”
And if we still weren’t getting through, “Because maximum frolicking is encouraged at all times.”
Since then, we’ve mainly discussed the direct incontrovertible connections between fresh truffles, Venice, decanted Bordeaux, Florence and tropical beaches with friskiness, yet, oddly, hardly touched on the one aspect that makes writing a weekly column so much fun. Namely, the use and selection of the very words that fill it.
Fortunately we’re able to cobble our columns together using the magnificent English language. There are two reasons for this. We can’t write in any other. And if we could, in let’s say, Finnish, it’s doubtful 0.001% of today’s readers would understand a single word.
There’s something else. English is such a vibrant living language – new words and phrases are cropping up faster than you can click your mouse and find them on the web.
We covered “metrosexual” some months back, and not surprisingly it turns out to be the 2003 New Word of the Year as measured by wordspy.com, one of the most
absorbing web-sites I’ve come across.
Here are some other recent wordspy favourites, and I’m not making any up. In fact, I wish I could.
“Floortime” – (parents getting down on the floor and playing with the child, letting the child take the lead in playing.)
“Lipstick lesbian” – (one who is beautiful, stylish, or markedly feminine.)
“Salad dodger” – (an overweight person who shuns healthy foods.)
“Irritable male syndrome” – (anger and irritableness in men caused by a sudden drop in testosterone levels, particularly when brought on by stress.)
“Kipper” – (an adult son or daughter, particularly one aged 30 or more, who still lives with his or her parents.)
Here’s a cute one Judy made up all by herself we’re submitting today to wordspy.com to try and get it placed among the Top 10 for 2004.
“Sexy Genarian Scriber” – (a senior citizen who not only writes about it.)
