The Tale of the Cowboy Jig
michael
In grade school, the most popular boys had developed a lexicon of cool things to say, which the initiates were allowed to use but those of us on the fringes and beyond could never say without netting silent withering stares of 'how dare you leave your station and try joining our party'!! Cool things like "tink" for when your pencil tip broke (or was actively broken, "tink" spoken with a lilt of glee) or "roar" for when anything went badly, often used when corrected tests were returned. There was "The Cowboy Jig" that one of the gang gleaned from some TV show and showed off to the others in morning homeroom.
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