Slang Scribe Gifts

Thru versus Through Traffic

"More rescue efforts, less screenplay."

"You call this sweating bullets over the Jackson account? What caliber?"

"For just one monkey in front of one typewriter you've come up with some amazing stuff."

"You funnin' me, bub?"

The Mating Call of the Modern Youth

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

Angel wears t-shirt with logo: YOLO.

"It's publish or perish, and he hasn't published."

East End Maps.

Script/Director/Producer/Decency Panel.

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

"So I'm like, doesn't anyone speak proper English any more?"

Whatever!

"I had that dream again where you're writing down all my fears and anxieties and working them into a screenplay."

Monks sitting at a row of computers typing up old-fashioned looking manuscripts.

Son to Father, "So dad, tell me, have you ever larged it!"

"Love the tie, Chad—that is so pimp!"

Waiting Room For Godot.

Ocean Liners will be Ocean Liners

"Regarding your letter of next Monday ... "

God sends a text message: 'OMME!'

"Lately my joints are stiff." "You're rollin' 'em too tight. Try vaping."

"Tests! That's one thing I don't like about the end of school. I can't believe it! You're not finished studying, either?"

"Bartleson, are we cronies yet?"

"It's a dame!"

'I got my grant to study why the word 'COOL' persists generation after generation'

"This is not what I meant when I said 'let's chill'."

'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?'

Feart!

'Too-Wit-Woola-Bool-Kerla-Bam-Boo!'

"Roosters crow, but crows don't rooster. That ain't right."

'It's not exactly ROLFcopter...how about trying a novel?'