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[prog]

I'm really sad that the terms "mook" and "midriff" never caught on, because they're still very useful for describing these people, when needed. Like, I want to note this bizarre mook invasion of True Grounds that just occurred, while I was sitting here. (They mean well, and are clearly friendly-friends of the clerk, but are still stinking up the place with all their mooking, such as the one with the reverse ballcap noting his surprise at the presence of a couch by pointing at it and man-squealing.) Well, they just left, anyway.

I used to call these people Chads and Jens, when I was in college, but those terms are probably even less useful to drop generally.

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[queue.livejournal.com]

theora introduced me to the term "Chads". Of course, she's from Maine, too.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Haw!! I'm pretty sure that must be independent invention, since I'm pretty sure I came up with it myself (unless the term found its way over to her via the friends I used it with years ago, which would have been pretty cool).

I dunno what it was about the name, and its strangely natural attachment to this sort of young man, but I could talk about "Chads" to any of my UMaine contemporaries and they'd immediately pick up on what I meant, often with a laugh.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Tom Green's character in the first Charlie's Angels movie was named Chad - is there some connection?

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

i believe he was actually "the Chad."

we are publishing a book on hanging chads, which, sadly, is not about executing your kind of chads. a shame, really.

[queue.livejournal.com]

I immediately picked it up when she mentioned it, even though I hadn't rnu across it before. I think that it has something to do with the type of people who would give their children that name, at least in our generation. Or at least that sounds somewhat plausible.