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Overnight Open ThreadNominations for the Top 100 Current Clichés in the English Language Here's a list of words and phrases that John Rentoul would like to see put on the Banned List. Other recent additions to the List, which are over-used especially in politics and the reporting thereof, include "postcode lottery", "evidence-based", "metric" to mean "a measurement" and "around" to mean "about", as in "campaigning on issues around gender". Conservative ministers keep accusing Labour of having "maxed out" the nation's credit card. America is a great country, but some of its slang is best in its native habitat. No doubt you've probably used some of these phrases yourself un-ironically, and most are not bad in that they do usefully describe something. But they're also way overused, often as mere word filler. So going forward you should make it a project on a daily basis to eschew these phrases in favor of fairly unique ones. And that's just common sense. 1. It’s the economy, stupid.You can find the rest here. The Worst Person in the World MFM Slams Sarah Palin for Writing Emails at an 8th Grade Level And note that they don't mention the grade level of Obama's speeches (hint: it's less than 8 ). Of course emails are not the same as actual writing so any grade level analysis is going to be mostly bogus at best. But then the MFM were determined to not come away empty in their witch hunt. Mexican Narco Gangs Re-Enacting Battle Royale The elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death.Given that there's no evidence of this so far I'm pretty skeptical, but hey it would make a pretty good movie plot though. (thanks to CDR M) 'Patti LaBelle' Cadet Expelled From West Point Supermodels By Country How to Estimate the Radius of the Earth With a Lake Do You Know Their Real Names? An Average Woman's 10-Stage Journey Through Jealousy Stage Two: Moment of Truth The Yahoo AoSHQ group. You know the way. Tonight's post brought to you by Paul and Clint: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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