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Expressions You Hate!
Front-Ranger:
Other candidates for loathing, as published by Lake Superior University in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English include:
* perfect storm
* Webinar
* waterboarding
* organic
* wordsmithing
* author/authored
* post 9/11
* surge
* give back
* blank is the new blank
* Black Friday
* back in the day
* random
* sweet
* decimate
* emotional
* pop
* it is what it is
* under the bus
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on December 10, 2008, 04:50:30 pm ---Calling everyone, men women, elders or whomever.. DUDE!! That bugs me bad DUDE.....ukk
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lmao!
Oh Janice......thanks for the memory!
Years ago, my father was ranting about something, and I said to him:
"Whoa dude! Calm down."
This ticked him off, he started yelling at me, "I'm not your "dude"! I'm your dad! Don't call me "dude"!
I should've been serious, but I just started laughing out loud. I had just returned home from a camping trip with friends, and one of the songs that got played by the campfire was one I never heard before, a song called "Don't Call Me Dude".
:laugh:
serious crayons:
I like "blank is the new blank" if it's something so absurd it's funny. Like, I heard of someone saying they were vacationing in Minnesota in winter because "Cold is the new hot."
But not when it's used sincerely, as in, "50 is the new 40," or "Brown is the new black."
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 11, 2008, 03:55:10 pm ---I like "blank is the new blank" if it's something so absurd it's funny. Like, I heard of someone saying they were vacationing in Minnesota in winter because "Cold is the new hot."
But not when it's used sincerely, as in, "50 is the new 40," or "Brown is the new black."
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Or the tagline to Jim Carrey's new movie "Yes is the new No."
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on December 10, 2008, 04:50:30 pm ---Another one that bugs me a lot, my family does it all the time, and I could just cringe..
Calling everyone, men women, elders or whomever.. DUDE!! That bugs me bad DUDE.....ukk
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Oh sorry Janice! Heehee... I've definitely been doing that a lot. I especially tend to use it as an exclamation (like listen here or tell ya what): "Dude, you won't believe what almost happened..."
For the past 3 years, I worked for this young entrepreneur from California, so that was the office lexicon, which rubbed off on me.
Like bosses do, he would come by my workstation and look at my computer to see how my work was going. If he liked it, he would just say, "Totally".
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