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Want to wake up your inner revolutionary child?  It's easier than you think -- all you need to do is replace phrases like "Roth IRA" and "multivitamin with extra Gingko" with 60's-speak, man!   But before you do, check this dictionary to see what your favorite 60's slogans mean in the 21st century! Can you dig it?

• Be-in - A meditative state during which you become one with the universe, or at least, the person on the other end of the cell phone.
• Bean bag - An overpriced unisex purse from L.L. Bean.
• Black light - What you wish they had in dressing rooms instead of fluorescents.
• Bummer - When the stock market takes another plunge.
• Campus unrest - What happens when you drive by your alma mater and see your old student loan officer.
• Don't freak out - The quote most baby-boomers have taped to their bathroom mirrors.
• Dope - What you looked like last year when you went to your high school reunion in bell bottoms and a fringe vest.
• Far out - The distance you have to hold a magazine to be able to read it.
• Feeling groovy - The overwhelming emotion you feel when you see a box of albums at a garage sale. 
• Give peace a chance - What you yell to your kids or grandkids when they crank up Eminem on their CD player.
• Good vibrations - When the washing machine finishes its load without getting out of balance.
• Groovy - How your backside looks when you've been sitting on a corduroy couch watching Who Want to be a Millionaire? 
• Let's get it together - What you yell at soccer games.
• Magic mushrooms - A new animated cartoon series for kids.
• Main squeeze - What happens when you try to fit into the jeans you wore in the good old days.
• Miniskirt - Dust cloth.
• Mod - Short for "model;" the woman most babyboomer men wish they could date.
• Mood ring - A wedding band forcefully thrown across the room during a menopausal mood swing.
• Pad - What you jot notes on to remember important stuff like eating and showering.
• Pigs - Your kids.
• Power to the people - Your electric company's slogan.
• Psychedelic - The colors you see after you've had your eyes dilated.
• Revolution - What you make through your house trying to track down your car keys.
• Sell out - Your broker's suggestion when the market looks like it's about to crash.
• Sex, drugs, and rock & roll - What your kids would spend all their time doing if you didn't watch them every minute.
• Stash - Those mint Girl Scout cookies you've hidden behind the Peter, Paul, and Mary albums so no one will find them.
• Summer of love - Any summer you don't have to attend your family's annual reunion.
• Wipe out - What happens when you attempt to snowboard
• Yippie - A common word yelled by baby boomer women when their mammogram is over and their breasts spring back into place.

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