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people on ILX say "clearly" way too much, i don't like it

― duane, Saturday, 18 January 2003 08:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I'm guilty of that. Sorry, Duane.

Words I use far too often on ILM: Irrefutably, Moot, Disquietingly, Worryingly, Rocktastic, Implausibly, Indefensible, Killing, Joke, Honor, The and Fire.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

"moving forward"
"depth of flavor"

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Saturday, 18 January 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

words alex in nyc doesn't use enough anymore: PABULUM!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha I was about to say that mark!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Knew that was going to come up. What can I say...I think I exhausted it to the point where it lost its magic for me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Irrefutable pabulum.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Emperor's New Clothes

as in: I don't like [X] that everyone seems to be raving about - oh, it's just emperor's new clothes (ie: all the others are weak minded fools and only I can see the truth)(ie: I'm a pompous twit).

― DavidM (DavidM), Saturday, 18 January 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Irrefutably MOOT pabulum.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like "to the next level" because a lot of bands have a leap in quality between albums and its a fun, silly way to express that. I'd never do that in print though. Except for humorous purposes.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

"X is OTM."

No he isn't on money, he is on crack!

― , Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

basically using any quotation from anyone ever (including the dictionary) to sum up the point you think you're making. a lot of people said a lot of things! some of them are even official, ooooh! so what?! they don't provide that last f'in nail in the coffin of your arg or whatever, like we're so dazzled with this AUTHORITATIVE coup de grace that we just sort of topple over sideways and whimper "you win, you win..." i love a good quote but ONLY if it's docu-historical or like, informational. or fictional.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

When people talk of "owning" emotions. Owning a thread's OK, though.
What if we 0wnz0red it?

Just out of curiousity, what exactly is a craw, and what would you need to drive it up there?
A craw is a weird vegetable that Victorians used to boil mercilessly. What was odd about this -- now extinct -- vegetable is that it was part of the life cycle of a form of crayfish. This is why a crayfish that has given 'birth' to a craw is called a Crawdad.
As for how something can get 'stuck in yer craw', this has something to do with a perverse party game practiced my members of the Naughty Hellfire Club back when there still were craws to use in this twisted game. Lets just say it involved sticking things into a craw...and leave it at that.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

To answer TMFTML seriously, craw = throat I think.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm pretty unimpressed & bored with the whole "GREBT" thing too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

(blank) is in the house
or in da house
unless someone is actually in a house, then it's OK
"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.
Also, this is more sports related, and it may be a local phenomenon, but "Do it like you can." Here that a lot. Fills me with barely controlled rage.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

rawk

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

(blank) is in the house
or in da house
unless someone is actually in a house, then it's OK
"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.

Post of the day.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Post of the Month, I say. I practically spat coffee all over my keyboard in utter, unhomogenized mirth.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.
Naw, it still wouldn't be complete unless its a relentlessly white insurance salesman with thinning hair and owl-like spectacles saying it...and ending the statement with "Yo". As in...
[WHINY HONKEY]"Oh, he's in the house, yo."[/WHINY HONKEY]

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh NO....

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

People who last week couldn't find x on a map are now all of a sudden an expert in y

― anvil, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link

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...also, when people say it was yay big, in stead of this/that big etc. What about elitist twats who refer to The Guardian as The Grauniad?? I'll stop now as I'm only winding myself up...
― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 3:46 PM

I suppose that nineteen years ago this person not understand that “yea” in this context does not mean “this/that” but approximate? Perhaps enlightenment has come and their irritation has subsided.

― Kim, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link

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