Steve Young's Seven Bridges Road & The Snide Patrol Gets All Whippersnappy

 March 12, 2026

   As much as I love the Eagles' version, I have to say, the original is just as good, if not better:

Steve Young Does The Original "Seven Bridges Road"

Seven Saguaros On Ratcliff Ridge

   Cool beans.

The Snide Patrol Gets All Whippersnappy

   When I asked for opinions on whether to continue running Classic True West in the magazine I received an outpouring of passionate voices supporting it, while one young punk insisted it has been a total waste of space. Here is how his  young, Whippersnapper crowd summarized the support I ran on this blog back on March 6: "Alas, the 'Classic True West' feature remains thanks to the opinions of the soon-to-be-in-assisted living generation."

   And if you are curious who the little punk naysayer is, it should be pretty obvious:

All Yays And One Nay

The History of Whippersnappers
   The word whippersnapper describes a specific kind of bratty, know-it-all kid, and it's only used by an older person who is talking about a younger person. It's a fairly old-fashioned word, having been around since the late-1600s, when it apparently arose out of "whip-snapper," which implied a general sense of lots of noise and very little importance. Around the same time, the word "whipperginnie" was a derogatory term for a woman.

"Yes, I was a whipperginnie for many years, but I grew out of it."

—Honkytonk Sue