Baby Its Cold Outside

Minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit with a foot of new snow here in Roxborough Park this morning. Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Baby its COLD outside!

 

Baby Its Cold Outside
Amish buggy in ditch: Baby its COLD outside! They shoulda worn their snowshoes I guess.

 

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Seeing as it’s fit for neither man nor beast out there right now, it might be a good day to stay indoors and play word games. I know a lot of people are into Wordle of late, but the daily NYTimes crossword (current streak stands at 686 consecutive days and counting) is plenty enough for me. But I did come across this wonderful meme of colorful language on FB – with the apt caption “Confuse The Latest Generations”- below.

 

Your favorite? Mine is “Cattywumpus,” which would not make a half bad caption for the Amish-buggy-in-ditch image above.

Let’s all be careful out there!

 

Bonus XKCD content

 

One Reply to “Baby Its Cold Outside”

  1. Booby Prize isn’t on the list but definitely would get you on a watch list with the younger generation. A high school buddy of mine used it a couple years ago when coaching his teenage daughter’s soccer team and got a chorus of “ooooh, you said booby!”

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