dope

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:07 AM -0500 3/8/05, sagehen wrote:
>Jonathan Lighter writes:
>
>What could be more passe' sounding than "pot" and "weed"?  Oh, I know !
>"Grass."
>
>JL
>~~~~~~~~~~
>I'm wondering if even more passe than "grass"  is "dope" in an entirely
>different sense:  that of information, the "gen," the "skinny," the "poop."
>  Weren't racing forms sometimes called "dope sheets"?  Someone might say
>"I'll send you the dope on how to sign up."
>It was also a verb.  We used to say "I'm going to dope this out, " & sim.
>to mean try to understand instructions, or translate or work out a puzzle.
>A. Murie
>
Well, there's The Straight Dope, so how passé can it be?

L