"Snap" can be:
A response to a putdown
CLARENCE (to JERRY): You're so stupid it takes you two hours to watch 60 minutes.
ME (on sidelines): Oh, snap!
An S-word alternative
TOMMY: Snap! March of the Penguins is sold out! Looks like Dukes of Hazzard for me!
An expression of joy
RED: Whoa! I'm getting Gameshow Network for free! Snap!
An expression of surprise
PHIL: Snap! Steven Tyler is a doctor!
Of course, standard definitions of "snap" (finger-popping, losing one's temper) are still about, but seldom used.
These ruminations come about because yesterday I purchased these:
These, as you may know, are SNAPS®. As hard as I find this to believe, I had never had SNAPS® before yesterday. I enjoy candy. If I had an Indian Prince's cash, I'd build a chocolate palace, and eat it all before it melted. How have these treasures eluded me? They're like Good-n-Plenty, but Gooder and Plentier. I had some left, and I just finished them. Snap, these are good.
A new school year is beginning. I will keep a supply of these delicacies on hand. When students yell out Snap! (as is their wont) I shall chuck one their way. As these candies were not made by Mountain Dew*, they will hate them.
So, as we bend at the starting block of a year, awaiting the buzzer that sounds the start of another mixed metaphor, take a moment to luxuriate in the anise-y goodness that is the SNAP®.
*Kids love the Mountain Dew. Is it just me, or wasn't Pitch Black II called The Chronicles of Riddick?
2 comments:
I actually watched "Pitch Black" and "The Chronicles of Riddick" back to back ( or one after the other) and found them to be the only Vin Deisel movies that I like. I'm actually looking forward to a third...weird!
I didn't plan on liking Riddick and quite did. Is there a 3rd in the making? It seems they must've lost their shirts on that one. Maybe it did better in Japan than here...
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