A lighthearted look at the Saints' magical season... from a lowly fan... high in the rafter of Section 641.Let's face it, everyone is getting "crunk" these days. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters all seem to be swept up in this season's most popular Saints song,
"Stand Up and Get Crunk" by the Ying Yang Twins. But what does "crunk" mean? That depends on how you use it.
Example 1: "Man, I was getting crunk last night during the NFC Championship game." You stood up for the whole game. Everyone around you was in danger of being blasted with a high-caliber hand slap for the smallest Saints positive play. You proudly lost your voice by halftime and jumped up and down like Digital Underground's Humpty-Hump was playing at your senior prom. Getting crunk for you meant "having a good time."
Example 2: "Man, I was getting crunk last night during the NFC Championship game." You stood up for most of the game, because they don't have seats in the line for booze. Everyone around you was in danger of having two cocktails spilled on them if the Saints did anything exciting. You were forced to hold two cocktails because the NFL won't let the Dome sell doubles anymore. You proudly lost your lunch in the bathroom... proud because you made it there without falling down the Dome's steep staircases. Work for you is not an option the day after the game. Life is barely an option. Getting crunk for you meant "getting crazy drunk."
Example 3: "Man, I was getting crunk last night during the NFC Championship game." You put on a rap concert unlike any the Dome has ever seen. Your best friends call you Lil John or The Ying Yang Twins. Getting crunk for you meant "using a style of music that is a sub-genre of hip hop."
Some people say it is a German or Yiddish word, but through online research, I think they are confusing it with krank, which is pronounced the same way.
I'm hesitant to link to anything like the Urban Dictionary for the definition because there are some offensive things on sites like that, but if you
Google "crunk," you'll get the idea.
UPDATE: Technology guru Jerry Seregni went to urbandictionary.com for you:
In 1995, Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter were scheming ways to get past the NBC censors, who were quick to bleep the duo’s bits on O’Brien's late night talk show. They decided they needed an all-purpose replacement for the infamous seven dirty swear words they couldn't say on TV. The word they chose was “crunk.”
The choice wasn’t random. Ice T was on the show that night and most likely made the suggestion. Ice did not invent the word. He probably got it from Dirty South rappers, who had been using it for years as a euphemism for getting really crazy and, er -- drunk. Conan and Ice T merely introduced the word to suburban audiences.
