That means that I am old enough to be your father
Thank the heavens above that isn't the case!
you young wet behind the ears whippersnapper!!
Oh my, "whippersnapper". I feel like I have been transported back to a Norman Rockwell drawing. As I said, I am 40, in order to be a "whippersnapper" you have to be young and inexperianced. I assure you I am neither.
I am trying to catch up on the proper use of stupid phrases and words that I have missed out on using. It is kinda fun!!
Alrighty, have fun with that. To help you out, I thought I would list the Word of the Year for you. Try these out, oh....and there is no need to thank me.
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dialect_Society
From the American Dialect Society:
The ADS choices of word of the year are the following:
1990: bushlips (similar to "bull****" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
1991: The mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
1993: information superhighway
1994: cyber, morph (to change form)
1995: Web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer)
1996: mom (as in "soccer mom")
1997: millennium bug
1998: e- (as in "e-mail")
1999: Y2K
2000: chad (from the 2000 Presidential Election controversy in Florida)
2001: 9-11.
2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
2003: metrosexual
2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the 2004 presidential election)
2005: truthiness, popularized on The Colbert Report
2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)
2007: subprime (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment)
2008: bailout (a rescue by government of a failing corporation)
2009: tweet (a short message sent via the Twitter service)