I read 'drops' as in 'takes back' not 'makes'.

Maybe that's just me.

I know DUers have complained and complained and complained about this term but then DU skews to probably 80% Boomer + GenX.

They with it all right.

My GenZ niece texted some TikTok (that I can't view because I don't have an account) video commentary yesterday about people who ruminate about "Fat Albert" -





Had to explain to her when that first came out.

Egads, we must educate our Boomer Cohort! *I still use the Fat Albert, "Hey, hey, hey! Love to play tackle"

In the 60s, when I was in high school, a friend of mine had some record albums of Bill Cosby's comedy. Routines. He had just risen to fame at the time with a co-starring role on I Spy. Before that, he was well known for his standup comedy, and his routines had been recorded and released on vinyl LPs. I remember listening to some of them with my friends and laughing our asses off. (Of course, this was long before he was generally known to be a disgusting, sleazy sex pest, so to us he was just a really funny comic.)

I can't remember a lot of details now, but I remember him telling funny stories about his boyhood pals, including Fat Albert and Old Weird Harold. So I was very familiar with those characters years before they got turned into a cartoon show, as were many other people at the time.

The point of all this is just to say that if people find Fat Albert to be out of step with today's sensibilities, that's because he is literally a relic of a bygone era!

P.S. There's a street in my town called Harold St. I drive down that street fairly often, and my personal nickname for it is Old Weird Harold St. I just can't help it. The first time I saw that street sign, Old Weird Harold immediately popped into my head, and it's been Old Weird Harold St. to me ever since!

A bygone era! Robert Culp, his costar, died 15 years ago. RIP

would be 44 and have been around "for decades".

(I have a bunch of nieces and nephews in that age group and the biggest usage seemed to happen with the announcement of the release of some song or album)

It's weird how some people still use the word "millennials" as a synonym for "those darned kids!"

As for the word "drop," i see the release date for albums being referred to that way all the time. Also books, movies, and even TV shows. I was listening to a podcast recently about a new documentary series that was about to be released and they were like, "The first 2 episodes drop on September 1st." So there you go!

and Gen Alpha is right behind them ready to emerge.

My youngest nephew is a Gen Alpha and is the same age as one of my grand-nephews (they are buddies too) and the two of them had zero idea what a "45 RPM" record was (I have a box of them). Fortunately the generations just before them are discovering and embracing vinyl (and their favorite artists are also "dropping albums on vinyl" ) so...

drops new album. Drops new single.

Usually entertainment related. I wouldn't read anything along those lines the wrong way.

But is the term leaking out? 'Supreme Court drops new ruling'. 'ICE drops new plan to deport random people to Antarctica'. We're not there yet or so I thought.

A bit weird. Is the person who wrote the headline (if not AI) trying to sound edgy (generous) or are they trying to trivialize the allegation being made to the level of pop entertainment?

Just weird.

but the younger generation is who are now writing the stories. There still be some 70-somethings still there but the newsrooms are being peopled by 30 & 40-somethings who now have some experience under their belts.

But that's just how language works. Language is changing constantly; new words are always being coined, and people continually find new uses for old words as other old words fall out of favor. As a boomer English major who took a few linguistics courses in college, including History of the English Language, I find the whole thing endlessly fascinating. There's an old saying that variety is the spice of life, and I think that definitely applies to language!

and it is being used just like how "cool" and "hot" have been around for many years too (but in a wider context)!

so the "newer context" needs to be accepted for the current time.

The writer may have used the verb "drops" because it seems to match the next word, which is "bombshell."

As an aside, I have to admit that I like a song by The Gap Band which is titled (I think) "You Dropped the Bomb on Me."

shouldn't be an issue.

I love that languages change, but "drops" often causes confusion for me.

and HOT too!!!!

(and then one wonders why you see the some stupid "Okay Boomer" retorts )

that uses the internet gets caught by those terms anymore? I guess I could see some confusion in certain circumstances if they were used by volcanologists or astronomers describing their subjects but not so much in regular conversation.

Slang will be forever changing with meanings seemingly "opposite" of the term. Probably why people hate English!

I've been on the receiving end of the "boomer" crack a couple of times, but I can't figure out why I'm being likened to a nuclear missile submarine.

Hard to say, though.

I look nothing like Norman Esiason.

stay away from my family, you creepy republicons

If the Nurse is going to examine any tiny thing…

would simply wearing a white dress suggest a nurse? And why would walking with a nurse, or two nurses, be "hilarious"? Apparently, pedojeff was as emotionally stunted as krasnov.

now felon traitor needs multiple doctors, nurses, a hospital wing. And he's still gonna die from something.

with the possibility of redemption at the end.

Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow

To me Darth Vader suggests a grandeur and scope to his evil that Epstein never came close to achieving.

I would think Gríma Wormtongue from LOTR a better comparison or even Huggy Bear Brown from Starsky & Hutch. Maybe Tattoo from Fantasy Island.

I am not underplaying the damage this guy did. I just think he was a low rent pimp the whole time.

Many people say.

I’m so glad more survivors are coming out! May they all be gifted with much courge!