The other day I was driving around listening to the NPR radio show “A Way With Words.” One segment that piqued my interest talked about slang that was specific to certain jobs or activities. The slang they discussed had something to do with flight attendants, and one flight attendant in particular was very slow during food service, so the other flight attendants referred to her as “salads over St. Louis,” or something to that effect. The phrase suggested that, over St. Louis, the flight attendant would only be on salad service on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. (Not that we get food service on flights anymore, but you get the idea.)
Anyway, this got me thinking about the slang surfers use, and more precisely, surf commentators … More