harshing my buzz

[Gareth Branwyn]

I saw this episode and noted this too. I'm familiar with a similar
expression: "harshing my mellow." I believe it comes from hip hop culture,
but I'm not certain.

Gareth Branwyn
Jargon Watch
Wired


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Pulliam <pulliam at IIT.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:24 AM
Subject: harshing my buzz


>On "Malcolm in the Middle" tonight, one of the lead character's
>friends used this expression to mean "bring me down," as in "Why do
>you wanna go harshing my buzz?"  It was a grade school age character,
>and dope was not involved, although the expression pretty clearly
>began life as pot slang.
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