TWO GOOD LEGS

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Banished Words 2005



From Lake Superior State University comes the "Banished Words for 2005." As you will surely notice, 2GL has been guilty of using its share of these catchy words/phrases that quickly became cliches over the past year. Chief among the culprits are:

BLUE STATES/RED STATES

FLIP FLOP/FLIP FLOPPER/FLIP FLOPPING

BATTLEGROUND STATE

ENEMY COMBATANT

“… AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE”

BLOG

(For last year's list.)

posted by Rudy Law at 1/04/2005 01:48:00 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I want to add one to the list, and it should rise right to the top:

AT THE END OF THE DAY

This is the 00s version of the 80s-90s "IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS." ATEOTD is now quite shopworn, so take it off the shelf, boys, and pack it away in the basement.

At the conclusion of the diurne, I am ... Johnny Piano

11:42 PM  

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