“Hiking The Appalachian Trail” Is Official Slang Now
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, Monday’s news was all about how everyone is hiking the Appalachian Trail (the real one) these days.
Well, today’s news is all about how the term really doesn’t mean what it used to mean – and probably never will again. Obviously, that’s all thanks to S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford, who used “hiking the Appalachian trail” as his “cover story” for scoring some Argentine tail earlier this summer.
Today, Urban Dictionary – a ‘must’ if you want to understand what the hell it is kids are saying these days – recognizes several variations of the expression as a definition for cheating on your wife or girlfriend.
They include “Hikin’ the Appalachian Trail,” “Hiking Appalachia,” “Hiking the Appalachian,” and several others.
The website even includes some funny examples of the new phrase used in “context.”
guy 1: “Where’s Dave? I thought he he was going to play golf with us today.”
guy 2: “He told his wife he had to work the weekend, but I think he’s hikin’ the appalachian trail. He was flirting all week with that new chick in accounting”-or-
guy 1: “Where has your girlfriend been lately?”
guy 2: “I dumped her ass! Caught her hikin’ the appalachian trail, and that was it for that slut!”
Congrats, Mark. No one can ever say you didn’t accomplish anything now …
Comments
By 1 + 1 = 3 on September 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 am
What about the “ultimate line”?
By Andrew on September 27th, 2009 at 1:50 am
This is for the Urban Dictionary I came from. I found this blog link and hope the two places are conected.
This place is filled with rude off topic from the word(s) given for a deffinition it is horrible. I pity anyone that comes here looking for the correct meaning for any word. It looks as if the idiots were allowed to write what they want and are in charge of this place.
This is not writing, it is a bunch of profanity and garbage. What a waste of space this crap-pit is.
By kate on September 28th, 2009 at 2:00 am
this is to andrew,
sweet, naive andrew
i have but one question for you–
have you ever met the internet?
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