Saturday, September 12, 2009

Pop term of the day:
half-your-age-plus-seven

half-your-age-plus-seven

The rule to define the youngest that a romantic interest can be before the relationship is indecent.

26-year-old Barbara waited patiently until Jack turned 20, fulfilling the half-your-age-plus-seven rule, before pursuing him romantically.

Urban Dictionary

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whoa whoa whoa....It would be "half-your-age-minus-seven".

as in 60 YO Bobby can date anyone 23 years old or older.

Now....if you are an oil magnate the formula is half-your-age-minus-20".

As in 80 YO J. Jones was dating 20 YO Alexis who is a sophomore at UNT.

YM said...

I can have a romatic interest in someone the same age as my daughter. That's just kinda creepy to me.