Words and Phrases We Are Tired of Hearing

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

[Paul Atreides]

I just saw a word I am sick to death of hearing...

DIVA

Add to that....

DIVERSITY

SENSITIVITY

TOLERANCE

MULTICULTURAL

SELF-ESTEEM

Feel free to add your own, as I am sure I have left a lot out...

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Middle east peace process

(Any nationality)-American

(Anything)TAX

(Anything)reform

I feel you pain

It depends on what "is" means

Israeli occupation

Democrat

Green

Lawsuit

Environmental Protection

Global warming

[bigeasy_70118]

U go, girlfriend

[Corin Stormhands]

The "Government's money"

Islam means Peace

Tolerance

[dighton]

CLOSURE

I'll second that. Any use of closure, except for holding it up to ridicule, should be punished by lethal injection.

[bigeasy_70118]

U go, girlfriend

[MassExodus]

GLOBAL WARMING as if the Earth HASN'T been fluctuating in mean temperature for the past 6000 years.

[sinkspur]

THOUGHT LEADER
CONCEPT LEADER
ON YOUR PLATE

[Paul Atreides]

Amen on the gangsta vernacular.

[KellyAdmirer]

The ones that spring to mind first are, in order:

CLINTON
HILLARY!
STEPHANOPOULOUS
CARVILLE
BARBARA BOXER
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
PATRICK LEAHY

I could go on, but those words in those combinations usually make the pulse beat a bit faster in anger.

[philosofy123]

Chilling effect. That is a term exclusively used by the leftists.

[nravoter]

Here are a few phrases that got old fast (but still are in use):

1. Both sides need to get back to the table;
2. Chairman Arafat must renounce the violence;
3. "What did he know, and when did he know it?";

and a classic from around '98:

"...but it doesn't rise to the level of impeachment."

[ArGee]

SUICIDE BOMBER

(Note to NPR. When the goal is to kill someone else, it's HOMICIDE. If the killer dies in the process, it's still HIMICIDE.)

[Saturnalia]

But then the terrorists have already won.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

...and the list goes on and on.

YUP-YUP

U KEEPIN' IT REAL WIT DA PEEPS NOW AINTCHA?

[Paul Atreides]

Any P.C. phrase...

PERSON OF SIZE, COLOR, STATURE

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED

[Willie Green]

"FREE" TRADE

"GLOBAL" anything

[ArGee]

er ... HOMICIDE that is.

[MassExodus]

WHAZZZZUPPPP ?!

Followed by - WHO-DAAAAAAATTT !? !

Of course at this point only middle aged white guys are still yelling it to each other.

O.K. including my best friend and I

[xJones]

CHEESE
MOOSE

And the delightful All your base are belong to us.

But the worst of all is the eternal repetition of Islam is the religion of peace.

[Pokey78]

PROGRESSIVE