Posted on 01/01/2002 7:04:53 AM PST by Tazlo
But I'd let 'em all stay if we could just get rid of the word "Hillary" forever.
Person too, for that matter.
Even so, a couple of the phrases mentioned, while cliche, aren't as worthless as they might appear. Comparisons between "9-11," Pearl Harbor and the Titanic are not truly valid. On 12-7, ONE military base was attacked. On 4-14 (or 4-14/15 if you're pickier,) only ONE ship sank. On 9-11, the World Trade Center Towers were brought down, part of the Pentagon was smashed, and scores died in a Pennsylvania field. To focus on one group of victims has the effect of ignoring the other two, who died just as horribly. And no one is going to casually refer to the "WTC/Pentagon/Pennsylvania field attacks. If James J. Kilpatrick will forgive me: injunction denied.
Synergy, or "synchronous energy" was introduced by Stephen Covey, in his 1991 book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." Probably 20 percent of all middle managers read that book, and the other 80 percent are trying to pretend that they did, so a word that originally had real meaning is twisted beyond recognition because of its overuse by people who don't know what they're talking about. Were it to be retired, I wouldn't shed a single synergetic tear.
In the wake of an earlier accident has meaning when one realizes that rush-hour traffic (now THERE'S a silly phrase) continues to be affected even after the tow-trucks have hauled away the wreckage. But the reason for it involves phrases such as "domino effect" or "ripple effect," both of which are now highly suspect.
Everything else on the list can surely be put in the dumpster. It's a no-brainer. We've got to start thinking outside the box.
For example if a debate commission has four Republicans and four Democrats it is bipartisan NOT nonpartisan.
Re: Reality TV
If you are just following someone around with a camera(like COPS) then calling it "reality" tv might be appropriate but sending someone to the outback and having them run obstacle courses for cash prizes is not reality. Call it "unscripted tv" or call it what it is, a gameshow.
That is how the thoughts of the "rabble" are altered. Redifine the words and terms used, there-by altering the thoughts of those targeted. Now you can begin to understand the erosion process in thought and the purpose for capturing information decemination systems. This is why "they" seek to controll the internet and secretly bash their own heads against the wall for underestimating Talk Radio.
HEAR ME NOW. BELIEVE ME LATER.
Speaking of words. There is a little town in Maryland that could not decided on the issue of which end of the town to build the post office, so they named the town, Issue. I wonder how the Michigan town got its name?
BTW, it will always be 9-11 to me also.
i've always wondered about "family restaurant", as if there are restaurants for the opposite.
also, is this a politically coded phrase? in virginia it seemed to be a coded phrase for a christian restaurant, amongst my fellow employees who were "full gospel" christians!
oh boy, i asked them: are their churches preaching only part of the gospel?
praise the lord, and let's kill some arabs! (/sar)
A thoroughly nuclear term currently used to identify the site of the ruins of the WTC.
Ironically, this term is being widely used by people who would be horrified for the United States to actually use an atomic weapon, thereby creating a REAL ground zero.
A Killer App is an application of a new technology that is so obviously useful that it leads to mass acceptance of the technology. Railroads were the Killer App for steam engines. Automating the spreadsheet, a time consuming, error prone task if done by hand, was the first Killer App of the personal computer. Now, when nanotechnology becomes more feasible it's Killer App will be food replication.
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