How to Be the Bomb

Our society is constantly seeking new syntax to use to label things as being of high quality. The term "the bomb" is yet another in a long line of terminology that is filling the need to say something is cool in a cool way. Television shows can be bombs, places can be bombs even songs or food can be bombs. Of course people can be the bomb too. Here is how you can be the bomb.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Act like you just do not care. The one sure way you can keep yourself from being the bomb is by trying to be the bomb. Unlike in the military industrial complex, bombs are not manufactured, they are discovered.

2. Be different in a similar way. Everyone that really wants to be the bomb is looking for a hook. If the hook is too weird, chances are no one will appreciate it enough to call you the bomb. Find something rare that can be expressed in a way that is already considered acceptable.

3. Take it to the extreme. Extreme things are considered extra neat and have a chance of being the bomb. Take your hook farther than anyone before you and you have a good chance to be the bomb.

4. Act like you have been there before. As badly as you have been waiting for the moment someone refers to you as the bomb, you cannot have any outward signs of celebration. No one who is the bomb would break out and be enough of a dud to celebrate the acknowledgment they know they rightly deserve.

5. Hang out with people cool enough to call someone the bomb. If your compatriots refer to things that are the bomb as "hip" or "groovy," you need to find new friends.

[Tchoe]

on 10/11/2008 I the bomb! Twice all day! Plus all this did...work had been NEGATORy. check minus