Pretty funny new ad by T-Mobile - Beware the Cougar.
I first heard this term from my younger cousin a couple years back. We were walking through a nightclub when he turned to me and cautioned, “Cougars on the hunt, 3:00.” I had not a clue what he was talking about, looked to my right and saw a couple over-tanned women in their early 40s sidling on up to us. I immediately started laughing uncontrollably - the metaphor was just so perfect. I’m so glad to see that “cougar” has finally made the big-time.
So am I just rambling on pointlessly about the word “cougar”? No… well, rambling, yes. Pointlessly, no. The national lexicon is constantly changing, and it pays for advertisers to stay up on it. Or go a step further like T-Mobile and mine it for comedy. It is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
Loving today’s term btw: Disco Nap. Guilty!
