― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
I asked a secretary (sorry, "Assistant") for their bosses fax number ..
And she said, "So you want her fax number, as it were?"
and I said, "No - I want it as it is."
(I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitresses.)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paula G., Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Who do you think they stole it from??
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also hate "overrated" and "pretentious" -- for reasons we've discussed on these boards.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Speaking of "as it were," I heard a colleague utter this twice in a meeting just this morning.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
callum, we have several pretention threads.
new unfavorite expression: "oh, what i wouldn't give--." heard twice today. like everyone here is so poor they would go bankrupt if they bought a piece of cake.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also forgot to mention "pretend to like/love" but I don't really wanna open that can o' worms again.
― hstencil, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
MUST SEE TV
More of a trend that become pretty cliche: TRIBUTE ALBUMS. What did we do to deserve a tribute to a trifling band like ____________ (fill in your most irritating pet peve of a band here).
― Lord of Cheese, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
High speed low drag.
Suffixing "-ish" to a time: Let's meet at 5-ish because 4-ish is too earley and I'll be hypoglycemic by 6-ish.
Describing a band as a gene spliced concotion of two other bands:If Band A had a head on collsion with Band B you'd get Band C... If Band D got fucked in the ass by Band E and some sperm accidently landed in the love canal and a love child was produced you'd get band F... blah blah blah
The general term: ALTERNATIVE MUSIC/ALTERNATIVE RADIOIn the same vein: COLLEGE RADIO
Boy Band Profiling: The guy with the goatee will always be the one to go to rehab
Hella: That band was "hella" rocking last night.
Genius: How is it that so people know so many geniuses (genii?)... you know I ain't that smart!
Stoked
Full-on: That guitar player was full-on raging, dude!
Describing anything over 5 years old as RETRO. Worse is describing at SO RETRO. The worst is describing it as SOOOOOOOOOOOOO RETRO! (Props to those who posted before me!)
Props: just don't like that word and the people who use it.
― Crackhead Willie, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
If not the eeeevil twin, the "lite" version .... for instance, COLD PLAY is actually RADIOHEAD-lite.
― Okidata4, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
BUT OF COURSE! You must be French and a head chef in a restaurant that is not necessary French to get away with using this phrase. BTW, the only time that this phrase is used correctly is when you are drunk and abusing the staff.
― Verga, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jot eff pe, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
very very true... also "on crack" "on speed" and "high octane version of"
also
they are (insert band name here) without the (insert quality ie: wit, intelligence, class, etc...)
― WHISKEY KID, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
2. not a phrase, but a way of speaking these days: making statements that sound like questions because of intonation. This drives me crazy!
― Request Denied, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Never come to Australia? Everything sounds like a question? Oddly, they never took to Therapy? though?
(you do get used to it after a while, thank god.)
and to answer the question: seconded, anything like "so-and-so ON DRUGS!!!" (oooh, I'm such a Hunter Thompson in the making with my reverences to Qaaludes...cnut)
― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
-"a viable P2P filesharing product"-"multiple revenue streams"-"perhaps others will follow the robbie williams business model"-"99 cents per mp3 is a fair price, we feel"-"bundling our music product with video add-ons to add on perceived value for the CD-purchasing consumer"
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
There's a recent trend in speaking where people say questions directed at themselves out loud and then answer them. "Did I expect Justin's solo record to suck? Basically. Did I love it anyway? Absolutely ."
It's not the most irritating verbal mannerism, but it is kind of annoying.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
See, I don't think "overrated" has to be a criticism. I can acknowledge that the Strokes are overrated (they are -- I mean, they just are, and there's no way in hell they could have been as earthshatteringly good as the critics/publicists promised), while still admitting that I enjoy Is This It. "Overrated" isn't really about the quality of the music; it's about a lot of external factors that rightfully shouldn't get in the way of your relationship with a record.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
But my hatred of both is as naught (argh) compared with that of (argh) "deplaning" and my current bugbear "personal belongings".
― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
_____ is back!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mentiroso, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Expressions like:One beer short of a six-pack!The light's on but no one's home.He's not the sharpest knife in the kitchen.He's not the brightest bulb in the house.
Using the word "gay" to mean uncool.
Using the word "fag" to describe a person as uncool.
Throwing your arms and/or legs out and/or making contortionist quality hand gestures every time your lips move ala RAP artists/hood rats, especially when the closest you've been to the hood is when you watch re-runs of YO! MTv RAPS.
Lame metal bands thinking acoustic sets of their horrible songs will make those songs somehow sound better.
― SWORDFISH, Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh amen, amen, amen. SWORDFISH is so OTM, he's positively a PROPHET!!!!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link