I was watching an old episode of Modern Family the other day and heard a character say "You gotta WOW me. There's gotta be that WOW factor there, or I'm not interested."
I keep hearing this phrase: "Wow me." Especially on the HGTV shows I like to watch.
Nothing can be merely good or excellent, it has to have The Wow Factor.
I Googled it and found Wow Me Photos. It showcases the fire department in Buffalo, New York.
According to InternetSlang.com, WOW stands for World of Warcraft. Wrong. Epic Fail. Only a gamer would get that. Ick.
There's a design company called Wow Me. I read several of the pages before I realized it's a British company. The phrase that stymied me was "shelf edging." I found a good explanation of it on a website called Shabby Vintage Mom.
Wait a minute. I myself AM a "shabby vintage mom." What a coincidence!
I read a few of the pages and then I found another term I've recently grown to hate: POP.
"It gives the room a nice pop of color!" she trills.
The AJC today has a photo essay about porches that "pop." Does your porch have pop? These do Um... nope. None of them popped for me. They looked like nice porches, yes. But they didn't WOW me.
Here are some things that WOWed me, made my eyes POP recently [for good or bad]:
- Mike and I saw a huge buzzard in the road eating a dead squirrel the other day. [ACK! Bad wow!]
- The movie Premium Rush that we started watching last night. Really fascinating and fun to watch.
- Ping pong. Mike and I played last night for about 20 minutes, and wow was I tired afterwards, mostly from chasing the ball all over the garage.
- Woke up with a sinus headache this morning that was intensely wow, in a bad way. I was snorting salt water at 6:45 a.m. - really made my sinuses POP.
Huge wow here - an article about Nia Vardalos [My Big Fat Greek Wedding] and her adoption of her daughter. Read this and try not to cry. I dare ya.
Wow.
