Posted on 12/23/2004 7:38:22 AM PST by Reader of news
Yes, there were others, but "snaparazzi," "stalkarazzi," "vlogging," "freegan" and "Joementum" just didn't make the cut. Here's FOXNews.com's list of the wackiest catchphrases we found ourselves actually saying in '04:
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Flip-Flopper
He really, really didn’t want this nickname (and even tried to joke his way out of it during the debates), but thanks to Team Bush, John Kerry (search) became inextricably associated with a plastic beach shoe. And his detractors had a lot of fun using the term over — and over — and over again.
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Economic Girly Men
In the heat of the election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (search), R-Calif., proclaimed that Democrats were Economic Girly Men, and everyone waving a pair of flip-flops in the air was soon touting the term. Many were offended, but Arnold refused to apologize.
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Last but not least … Deaniac
The unique term for a person — read: liberal, under 30 and politically active — who was excited by Howard Dean's campaign for the Democratic nomination. But Dean proved to be a bit of Deaniac himself in his infamous “I Have a Scream” speech, and now he may be going to New Hampshire ... and South Carolina ... and Oklahoma ... but only on vacation.
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www.wordspy.com is a good place to see new words, like
"induvidual" and "ignoranus".
DUmmie isn't there.
...then there's the ever-melodramatic "Vote or Die!"
"Band of brothers"
'that's hot,' 'Youre fired..'
"YEARRGHHHHH!"
The wackiest phrase I heard was "Kerry could win." My favorite phrase was "We project Ohio for Bush."
I think I heard the term "spiderhole" more this year than all the rest of my life combined. Of course, nothing this year comes close to the way the media fell in love with the term "gravitas" in 2000.
My term of the year is "flip-flop". The most remembered of Kerry is his flip-flops. The best quote of him is "I actually did vote for his $87 billion, before I voted against it".
"facts on the ground"
I'll ralph if I hear those again.
My favorite when out with friends and I "suddenly" learn it is 3AM, "It got late early".
" It's beer-thirty".........
Does anyone have a video clip of Dean's rant? That was one of the funnier things I have seen....occasionally one of the Boston sports talk radio stations play him saying it, and it cracks me up!!
Hell, I embrace a good looking woman.
I agree with an idea, I don't embrace an idea or thought.
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