"I'd IM it." [Jack M.]

If I have learned anything in life from Robert Plant (and, really, who among us hasn't?) it's that when life squeezes your lemons 'til the juice runs down your leg you should collect it and make lemonade.

So, in that spirit, I offer the following proposition (heh): Let's use the AOL Fornigate instant messaging controversy as an opportunity to make the English language a little classier.

How you ask? By replacing the crude innuendo "I'd hit it" with the much more upscale and technologically sophisticated comment "I'd IM it".

I mean, isn't the former comment getting just a bit tired? It doesn't even have shock appeal anymore. Hell, they use it in TV ads to market hand-held PSP's to kids for crying out loud.

But if you start using the phrase "I'd IM it", you are making a much more 21st century statement! You are, in effect, saying that "not only do I have a blackberry in my pocket but I'm glad to see you too!"

And chicks dig affluence. And power. And what makes more of a statement that you possess both of those qualities than your ability to seemlessly use complicated and expensive telecommunications technology to woo the love of your life.

Or the love of your morning, afternoon, evening, or roll call vote. Don't bog me down with details.

So that's what I'm going to start saying. Who's with me?

Just let me know in the comments. If you IM me with your answer, I'll get creeped out.

posted by Ace at 07:07 AM

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