Most Overused Words and Phrases of 2009

Wally wrote: ...was afraid to but her newborn down ...

Maybe the news report is about her ????

"Wind Down Operations" According to every article written this year, when a factory closing was announced, (particularly an auto plant), according to the writer, they were not going to "cease production" or "outsource production" or "go out of business", they were going to "wind down operations" as of a given date.

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Wally wrote: "What item lurking in your house could kill your baby? Find out at 11"

Always assume the answer is ROBOTS.

That's why I have robot insurance.

Remember, those denying the existence of robots, may be robots themselves.

Appleseed wrote:

Wally wrote: "What item lurking in your house could kill your baby? Find out at 11"

Always assume the answer is ROBOTS. That's why I have robot insurance. Remember, those denying the existence of robots, may be robots themselves.

You don't have anything to worry about, unless you've got a bunch of old people's medicine laying around.

Tactical! Every E36 M3ting thing advertised is tactical, It's the new black

4eyes wrote: Tactical! Every E36 M3ting thing advertised is tactical, It's the new black

I know! I love all the E36 M3ty tacical crap I can get for my 10/22. I know how popular they are with LEOs. Nothing has knock down power like a .22 LR.

Joey

Don't be so quick. A 30 round clip will adjust anyone's attitude. But, yeah, I agree: if I want an AR-15, I'll buy an AR-15. My 10/22 doesn't need a "kit."

To the OP

SYNERGY. It's everywhere, and yet nobody's actually ever accomplished it.

toolbox

resources

another tool for the toolbox

another bullet for the gun

another arrow for the quiver

horsepower (corporately - we have the hp to get that done)

wheelbase (corporately - we don't have the wheelbase for that)

"we work in that space"

inspect what you expect

think outside the box

change your para-dig-em

Any noun that's been made into a verb in the last 5 years.

granular

bro

brosef

brah

Affliction/Tapout

Cougar. Seriously, old people now use it and there's a TV show. It's over. If you think it's cool, you're late. Move on, folks, nothing to see.

Guido. This one's personal, as it seems to be OK to throw around thanks to various reality TV shows and their requisite casts of morons claiming/using it as a badge of honor. To non fake-tanned, braindead eye-talians that don't only own wife beaters and hair gel, it's an offensive term.

I have one more - credit crunch. If you needed credit to live your life, you were berkeleyed anyway. Nothing changed in 2008/9, but things did get a bit clearer for a lot of folks.

engage

Appleseed wrote: Don't be so quick. A 30 round clip will adjust anyone's attitude. But, yeah, I agree: if I want an AR-15, I'll buy an AR-15. My 10/22 doesn't need a "kit."

A thirty round magazine for the 10/22 is just silly fun. Its still not tactical, though. I need to get one for mine!

Joey

speedblind wrote: SYNERGY. It's everywhere, and yet nobody's actually ever accomplished it.

She did. Way back in the 80s.

On the other hand "I will murder you with a ball-peen hammer" is just not hear enough around the office.

Last football season and at the beginning of this season more so then the second half.... WILDCAT

I have a coworker who thinks it is funny to say "Good Morning!" to everybody he sees in the afternoon. This has been going on every afternoon for over three years now.

Maybe it isn't sweeping the nation, but it sure is annoying the crap out of me.

Otto_Maddox wrote: I have a coworker who thinks it is funny to say "Good Morning!" to everybody he sees in the afternoon. This has been going on every afternoon for over three years now. Maybe it isn't sweeping the nation, but it sure is annoying the crap out of me.

I say that when i get into work, only down side is i never get in before noon now

-own it / take ownership of it

-repurpose

-terror

-in these __ times.

-I farted

-I apologize for_______.

-when can we expect your payment.

Otto_Maddox wrote: I have a coworker who thinks it is funny to say "Good Morning!" to everybody he sees in the afternoon. This has been going on every afternoon for over three years now. Maybe it isn't sweeping the nation, but it sure is annoying the crap out of me.

Hmmm I tend to say "good afternoon" to the folks who gets in after 10....

Pulling a'Palin" Awsome

"it's all Bush's fault."

Probably repeats, as I haven't gone through all of 'em.

"In these tough economic times" Seems every berkeleying commercial that comes on contains this one.

"I inhereted this economy."

"I inhereted this war."

Maybe it's always been this way, but it seems like I keep hearing "Incidences" everywhere I go. In the context it's used as a bastardization of "Instances" and "Incedents" and it drives me absolutely berkeleying bat E36 M3 crazy.

I know it was mentioned before, but "game changer" is berkeleying retarded and annoying as well.

Also: "Sweet."

Ken Block, Video, Gymkana

Short words that are abbreviated to sound 'cool', as in:

def = definitely

totes = totally

redik = ridiculous

delish = delicious

"I totes wanna go! The food there is redik delish!"

The hell you say!?