Sunday, September 4, 2011

What Is Swag?

It's impossible to have a conversation with anyone these days without hearing the word "swag" at least 521,764,928 times. But what exactly is swag? I was curious so I looked it up on Dictionary.com to see what swag really means. What I discovered changed my life forever. The definition of swag is: 


"a suspended wreath, garland, drapery, or the like, fastened up at or near each end and hanging down in the middle; festoon." 



What the heck?! That's so offensive. What in the world is a festoon anyway? I don't even want to know. All this time people have been calling me a suspended drapery and I didn't even know it. That hurts. Stand up for yourself! Just say no to swag...


(By the way, I've hidden links throughout this post to videos that better help describe the words or phrases that they are listed under. For example: click on the sentence "What the heck?!" in the paragraph above.)


P.S. I just found out that swag has a different definition that means "coolness", which completely explains why everyone has been telling me "You've got swag." So completely disregard the entire post above.