A New Words Dictionary

Here are some new words I've learned recently, all of them utterly without application in our daily lives.

The Monday morning yoga class at my gym has been cancelled. The instructor quit. In its place a yogalates (pronounced 'yoga-lattes') class, combining yoga and Pilates, will be offered. It sounds like a drink on the menu at Starbucks, no?!

Here are two words from the celebrity gossip column I shamelessly read in the newspaper picked up on the train home:

celebutante,
heirhead.

You can probably guess which celebrities they refer to.

In a web article which mentioned conservative journalist William F. Buckley's support for legalization of drugs, I found some interesting new words, and a story about how he arrived at this position. Apparently Mr Buckley once took his yacht outside the territorial waters of the U.S. to light up a joint before becoming convinced that the weed should be legalized. Here are the words, which have nothing to do with Buckley's long ago experience with marijuana, by the way:

chronic - 1) very high-quality weed, generally with red hairs on it.
2) marijuana with cocaine mixed in

broccoli - slang for marijuana coined by Vallejo, CA based rapper E-40

spark the broccoli - to light a bowl of marijuana. "Spark that shit, yo!"

Now, the latest front page news from this morning's newspaper. Quote:

Legal, intense
hallucinogen
raising alarms

Salvia divinorum produces
short, dreamlike experience

End quote. Street names for this species of sage: Sally D and magic mint.

And the following also from this morning's newspaper:

A child's tantrum on board a Delta commuter flight forced a pilot to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport.

An internet wit's comment:

"Definitely a good old-fashion application of the board of education to the seat of instruction is required."

Hip-hop music (?) in a country & western version? Why, that's called hick-hop!

In his television program on public TV, Dr Wayne Dyer used the expression helicopter parents, to describe parents who 'hover' over their children.

These two words appear often in advice columns and in Women Seeking Men advertisements, as two character traits the advertisers do not seek, and the advice seekers wish to avoid:

clingy
needy
For a long time, I didn't understand the application of the word 'needy', thinking that if a man wasn't 'needy', why would he reply to a Women Seeking Men ad? (Incidentally, those ads and advice columns are as often as not litanies of undesired character traits.) I asked a friend and this is what he told me:

Clingy is like when you come out of the bathroom with a piece of toiler paper stuck to your shoe and trailing behind you for all the world to see. Somewhat embarrassing, and undesirable (unless you're drunk).

Needy is like trying to watch a 2 hour Docudrama on a Pay TV in an airport waiting lounge (do they still have those things?) and have to keep feeding quarters into it every 10 mins.
Somewhat costly, and undesireable (unless you're drunk).

Now children, can you write a sentence using all of these new words?