What's your favorite (or least favorite) cliche'

4.19.03

[RedBloodedAmerican]

We need a source thread to refer to for cliches on FR.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Avoid cliches like the plague

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Ping! (and that wasn't a cliche)

[cardinal4]

"My bad"

[ErnBatavia]

"My bad"

That's the one!!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Umm...I forgto to put "(vanity)" at the end of the title, don't know if you prefer that or not.

[freedumb2003]

You mean FReeper cliches? Or real people cliches?

FReeper cliches:

"This is series."
"This is hugh."
We could loose.
"That begs the question" (it usually "raises the question").
"Paradigm" in almost all contexts.

[Timesink]

[Focault's Pendulum]

Real men don't eat use quiche cliches....

[Chancellor Palpatine]

"They'll take my M1A1 Abrams when they can pry my charred and smoking corpse out of its blackened turret".

"Bush doesn't agree with me 100% on [pick one issue]. I'm [pick one] not voting/going Constimatushun Party/going Harry Browne/voting for the Dem if that is what we're going to get."

"I have every right to carry a machine gun into a bank if I want under the 2nd Amendment to the Constimatushun."

[joebuck]

Nothing is as worn out as the "all your {whatever} are belong to us" cliche.

[Wright is right!]

News writing is loaded with lazy cliches - for instance, whenever there's a problem with the economy, any potential fix is called a plan/program to "JUMP-START" or "KICK-START" the economy. It's as though the writers have never heard any synonyms for "stimulate." No do they care to learn.

Michael

[yankeedame]

"Paragraphs are our friends."

[RedBloodedAmerican]

LOL!!

[Utah Binger]

"That said", "That being said", "Having said that", "Like", "Clearly", to name a few.

[wimpycat]

"At this point in time..."

"Rise to the level..."

"Lockbox..."

"Deficit..."

"Tax cuts benefit the wealthy..."

"The richest 1%..."

"Hasn't made the case..."

"Inspections are working..."

"Unilateral..."

"Go it alone..."

"Imperialistic..."

"Targeting civilians..."

"World opinion..."

"Starving Iraqi children..."

"Authority of the United Nations..."

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Ping to my #9

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Quagmire", "Another Vietnam", "Bush was "selected" not "elected".

[ditto h]

out and about

closure

[absinthe]

All extremists should be taken out and shot.

[FITZ]

These aren't on FR but the cliches I absolutely despise are "Thank you in advance" when someone makes a request, "You go girl!", "My bad!" and full grown women calling each other "Girlfriend".