Words and Phrases We Are Tired of Hearing

The Arrakis Street Journal | June 23, 2002 | Paul Atreides

[ncdrumr]

And What-Not
Big Business, Big Oil, etc.
"I need to get back to doing the people's business."
"I don't recall."
The richest 1%
Palestine

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

LOL or Pa. YOONS WERSH YUR CLOTHES

Git oughtta Here

I'm gonna 'run my sweeper.'

Are yous comin?

Well I'll be

Now yooooou knoooow

I did not have sex with that woman,Monica Lewinsky

I never told anybudddy to lie

global economy

globalization

Coffee Annan

We need to count ALL the votes

The butterfly ballot

We were dininfranchised

Jesse Jackson

Joe Losermans voice

Gore won the popular vote

Gore won Floriduh

Bill Maher

Katie Couric

Greta VanCirstion?

Wolf Blitzer

CNN

To be honest with you...

Quite frankly

Kaoto Kaitlin

OJ

Condit's silence

The bald-head mean dr. on ER (and carrie)

Democratic Values

Democratic leadership

West Wing

Chelsea

[Orual]

The 17 Worst Cliches in the Newspaper Business by Janet Roberts

1. "To be sure"
2. "Ratcheted up"
3. "Defining moment"
4. " ... not alone."
5. "The Holy Grail"
6. "The rest is history"
7. "If you build it ... "
8. "Welcome to the world of ... "
9. "Fast forward ... "
10. "Brave new world"
11. "Inner-city"
12. "Move forward"
13. "Hammered out"
14. "Quality"
15. "Sea change"
16. "Level playing field"
17. "Irony" The words "irony," "ironic" or "ironically" appeared nine times on Jan. 1 in my newspaper and a total of 42 times during the first nine days of 2001. The three-year average is five times per day. That's right, 5.5395 doses of irony per day.

I also maintain a list of overused words. At the pinnacle right now is "plethora." I see it everywhere. On Wednesday, it showed up 12 times on 17 Web sites, one Word-A-Day mailing and in at least six newsletters.

(Apologies for any repeats)

[Aggie Mama]

Sheeple. More specifically, when used to respond to a post that one doesn't like. (i.e.) "You must be one of the sheeple that believe ___________."

[sheik yerbouty]

To 'aks" a question...24/7...give it up for..wake up call...reparation..quality time..nurturing..co dependent..et. al, ad nauseum!

[Paul Atreides]

I hate it when the press describes Bubba as being "popular with the people." He is not popular with THE people, he is popular with SOME people, but not THE people.

[Paul Atreides]

The names of rap singers; Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Snoop Dog, Ice-T, Ice Cube, etc...

[sweetliberty]

THE RACE CARD

[sweetliberty]

BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE 21'ST CENTURY (translation: getting rid of personal freedom and establishing socialism)

[RedwM]

Anything having to do with the Catholic religion.

[Dec31,1999]

"Misguided"

[JessicaDragonet]

BIG OIL

BIG BUSINESS

Basically

The "Selected" president

[x]

"Dead Man Walking"

"Stick a fork in him, he's done."

"Your fifteen minutes are just about up."

Pop culture abounds in put-downs that are funny once, and then get driven into the ground.

[AmusedBystander]

TIGER WOODS

[beckett]

I also maintain a list of overused words. At the pinnacle right now is "plethora."

I nominate "manichean" as the "It word" of the moment among journalists. Never used at all only a few years ago, it now appears, it seems, in an article every other day. It will disappear as quickly as it arrived, like so many trendy words before it.

[ru4liberty]

"...is is that..."

[redhead]

"COMMUNITY!"

[shaggy eel]

,,, and from Tuesday, June 25th's "Dominion" newspaper, Wellington, New Zealand -

[detail from a work programme developing an oceans policy]... "This figure {$NZ1m} would allow work to be undertaken to develop the draft discussion document to be submitted to Cabinet. Additional funding will be required to undertake the public consultation and the analysis of submissions received. Further funding would then be required to develop the operational management tools necessary to implement the strategic framework arising from the consultation process..."

In short, "we need more than a million bucks to get this job done." Not only are these time wasters employed, they get coffee breaks too.