  Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3802 Registered: 07-2004 |
"pencil out" | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2933 Registered: 01-2006 |
Hey, maybe it's only a trivial pet-peeve of mine, but could we, also, do away with "most definitely?" Athletes adore that term. But then, most of them also think that a beautiful woman looks "amazing." | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6929 Registered: 12-2005 |
 PT1 The Three Stooges in Disorder in the Court  PT2 The Three Stooges in Disorder in the Court quote: | ||
Saintme Member Username: Saintme Post Number: 283 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Shore up" ex: "Shore up" the economy, "shore up" support, "shore" up partnerships, etc. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 8278 Registered: 02-2007 |
"quote unquote blah blah blah" ("quote blah blah blah blah unquote" is the correct way of doing it) "if i might say" "so-called" | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3808 Registered: 07-2004 |
Shore UP? I thought it was OFF-shore.  I don't mind so-called, but I hate when people use quotes after it. Use the quotes or say so-called, but both is overkill. | ||
Terridarlin Member Username: Terridarlin Post Number: 96 Registered: 02-2007 |
I'm already sick of "car czar" how about automobile autocrat. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 1248 Registered: 09-2007 |
Good call with "car czar"; loved your suggestion of "autocrat" - will guarantee that the Daily Show will run with it. Here's another one for the scrap heap: Referring to anything other than a human being, as "sexy". | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 4931 Registered: 11-2005 |
"Must have" as in some piece of useless crap is the "must have" gift of the season. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6241 Registered: 12-2005 |
In an old Andy Hardy movie someone said "hold the line" into a telephone. I suppose that's already been eliminated because cell phones have no line to hold. | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 355 Registered: 05-2007 |
Get your (insert word) on. I'm not even sure what it means, but it's all over the place now. | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2937 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yeah, Crystal. The worst use of that one occurs when a woman comes striding into a liquor store, hollering something about having to "get her drink on." Not good. Not good at all. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3737 Registered: 01-2005 |
Don't be dissin' me. Well, I could go into the whole Ebonics thing, but I might get some folks to call me a racist. Don't wanna do that.......hey, Happy Kwanza, or whatever..... | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2938 Registered: 01-2006 |
Well, Ray, "dis" is now turning up in crossword puzzles, which is one of the hurdles jumped as a word grows from Slang to Accepted Usage, so it may hang around for a while. However, history shows that once a slang word starts turning up all over popular culture, the folks who were first using it stop using it. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6247 Registered: 12-2005 |
From today's Free Press: At the end of the day, put an end to these phrases. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 6016 Registered: 08-2004 |
From the folks who brought you "thinking outside the box", "grow the business", "offshoring" and "rightsizing"... there's "metrics". That word makes me want to hurl... Besides business types, some "Afrocentric" authors use "metrics" and occasionally we have some posters here who like to "cut and paste" language from their favorite authors. So former controversial posters such as FIGEBORNU and MELLODRAMA frequently used "metrics" in their posting rants... Some more... anything "Tuscan" or to do with "Tuscany"... (in the 1950's the buzzword was "Provencial" or anything to do with Provence). And then there's "anti-oxidants"... "carbon footprint"... "low carb"... "babydaddy" or "babymomma"... anything using "my people" or "your people"... "whassup?"... "hey girlfriend!"... And the ultimate.... "text messaging"...  And then there's the foreign or foreign sounding words... Tapas (thanks Patrick!)... Asiago... Chapotle... And then there's the worst "fingernails on the chalkboard" for me... "C.E." and "B.C.E". I'm not really religious, but we've been using the Anno Domini way of dating since the 8th Century when the Venerable Bede in Harro England set up the way of using dates that's been a tradition for 1,200 years now. Who concocted CE and BCE anyway? No one has asked the Chinese or Jews to change their date/calendar vernacular (no 3 Stooges pun intended!), so I'll be damned that some history professor or cable TV director somewhere changes what has been traditional since the dark ages... It's almost as bad as Merry Xmas! | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 1286 Registered: 09-2007 |
I just wanted to throw a Parade for Myself..... Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 8:22 pm: 1. "vet, vetted, vetting": nobody EVER uttered that word until recently; now it is vomitously overused 2. "at the end of the day": I am sick of it...during the day! | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 1287 Registered: 09-2007 |
Also from the Free Press write-up: "It is, what it is". It was a dumb-ass thing to say before Rush Limbaugh ran it into the ground; he uses that phrase at least ten times during his moronic daily broadcasts | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 1292 Registered: 09-2007 |
"Transparency" I want to SEE what's going on - not - see THROUGH it (like Wonder Woman's jet plane)! | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 3021 Registered: 11-2007 |
"User aided, multi-directional, impact generator." NASA, (Government), speak for a $8000 contracted hammer, that could've been bought at Home Depot for $10. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 9080 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Don't be silly. The hammer cost $10, the other $7990 went towards reverse engineering the UFO that crashed in Roswell. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 3046 Registered: 02-2007 |
They had a working model and still couldn't get it right. Putzes. Well at least we got the transistor out of the deal | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 17920 Registered: 11-2006 |
Paging Mr. Gannon....JL 9080 has your name written all over it. | ||
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob Post Number: 1585 Registered: 10-2003 |
Cc, this site has your name written all over it. Minus the hot chicks, of course. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6284 Registered: 12-2005 |
WSU on quixotic quest to revive little-used words http://www.wordwarriors.wayne. edu/ http://www.lssu.edu/banished/ | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6350 Registered: 12-2005 |
"Powered by ..." Okay, it was clever at first but now everything's "powered by" something else so it's no longer impressive. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 4861 Registered: 11-2005 |
Overuse of the word "miracle". For example, in the coverage of the plane crash yesterday. The people survived because they had a good pilot, there was no fire and the plane did not break apart. It is not a miracle unless there is no other explanation besides divine intervention. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 1469 Registered: 09-2007 |
Pam...you are correct, the outcome of yesterday's plane crash was not a miracle - it was a FREAKING MIRACLE! (Message edited by chuckjav on January 16, 2009) | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 4863 Registered: 11-2005 |
No, I think the credit goes to the pilot. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200 90116/ap_on_re_us/plane_in_riv er_pilot | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 9186 Registered: 10-2003 |
Faux2 news was at Metro after the incident interviewing people about the plane crash for some reason. What jackasses. "Hey you, about to get on a plane, did you hear about that plane crash, what do you think?" Ummm, that sucks? Please go away? |
