hubby
― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^new display name 4 u and i'm srs this time
― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
no i'm HHooHHHooHH-oob
― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
fair enough.
― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
contumely
― Shakim O'Collier (kingkongvsgodzilla), Sunday, 23 August 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
A phrase, but:
"No room in the inn."
(said to me by a stranger on the subway last week as a number of people tried to get onto the packed car we were on)
― Shakim O'Collier (kingkongvsgodzilla), Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
A big fat fuck-you to "Cack-handed."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Blame it on Jess Harvell; he made it up.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Saturday, 5 December 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice Jaymcing, Jaymc.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 5 December 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't like the word "forefront"
― harbl, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"Snob."
Sounds disgusting, looks disgusting (thanks to associations with "snot"), often used in an annoying way.
Stop saying this, people!
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojY1Sj1-E0Q&feature=fvw
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Palimpsest" which is another one of those big-vocab words that people acquire and then overuse and try to steer conversations in directions where it can be dropped. It's like a post-grad stoner word.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 July 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't see there being a lot of use for that one! Or are they all using it metaphorically?
― mercy, sportsmanship, morality (Abbott), Friday, 23 July 2010 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I've actually noticed artists overusing it as a work title.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 July 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, I have used "Palimpsest" as the title of a work!
But I have, you know, a genuine abiding interest in palimpsests! What else would you call them?
― European Bob (admrl), Friday, 23 July 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I should add that the work in question was quite literally concerned with a surface which had been inscribed upon again and agin over time. You know, like a palimpsest!
Maybe the subject is a little tired rather than the word?
― European Bob (admrl), Friday, 23 July 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
And maybe people should stop using literal titles.
― European Bob (admrl), Friday, 23 July 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
dang dude this is just embarrassing
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Friday, 23 July 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
No it isn't. Just because Spencer says so doesn't mean the whole WORLD has to agree
― European Bob (admrl), Friday, 23 July 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It is definitely used a lot though, I agree
― European Bob (admrl), Friday, 23 July 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
don't mean to tell you yr work, but i'm pretty sure you were actually looking for 'pimpliest'
http://www.jangalang.com/images/acne-bad.jpg
― Has admitted to being Irish in order to have sex (darraghmac), Friday, 23 July 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Adam, you have a special dispensation. It's all copacetic, bra!
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 24 July 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"Yup."
Mostly just when drawn out: yuuuup.
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 24 July 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
A guy at work uses the word "excellent" an obscene amount — but never just once, it's always "EXcellent, EXcellent!", with an accent on the first syllable.
― fidel castro clone (corey), Saturday, 24 July 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Palimpsest is a great word when deployed well, great in meaning, etc. The "sest" part, and the associations with "incest" just give it a weird feeling.
― There's Money To Be Made in Ice Cream (EDB), Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
The recent trend of overusing "extrapolate".
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 25 July 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I really hate the word "douche."
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 26 July 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, only douches say douche.
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 26 July 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
My pet hate is "already" used completely wrongly and arbitrarily at the end of sentences."Like, hey, enough with the kitten pictures already..." IT MAKES NO SENSE!
I blame Friends.― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:33 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I remember hearing/saying this as far back as the mid-80s. Not as a *thing* but just as the way people talk. I remember b/c my brother thought it was funny to repeat the "already" multiple times. But yeh, saying "Will you get out of my way already!?" or "enough already" seems just normal to me.
― Jesse, Monday, 26 July 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i think it's just a way that people talk - though of course people do emulate popular culture - i wonder if the "already" thing is related to how people in some parts of the midwest say "anymore" sorta arbitrarily at the end of sentences?
― sarahel, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm trying to think of an example of "anymore" being used that way.... can you provide one?
― Jesse, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think I heard that once in the 18 years I lived in the midwest anymore
― jaymc won $5800 on day 1! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL
― Jesse, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ it is kinda like that in construction! it's kinda a redundant double negative that comes at the end of sentences - i had a friend from Indiana who talked like that. It was not annoying.
― sarahel, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i must have picked up the "anymore" thing in ohio because it seems so normal to me anymore i can't think of an example oh i just did while typing this lol
― the girl with the butt tattoo (harbl), Monday, 26 July 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Ohio and Indiana are definitely their own little world in the midwest; no one in the upper midwest does that
― jaymc won $5800 on day 1! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 July 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - yeah, ok harbl's post is a good example - it is sometimes a redundant double negative, but i think, more precisely, it's just used for emphasis - like "it seems to normal to me anymore" - that's along the lines of what I was thinking
― sarahel, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I work with a guy who keeps saying "what we need to do is whiteboard this."
― quincie, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to say that, then they took away my whiteboard
;_;
― "There's no way a Filipino can hold a championship trophy." (HI DERE), Monday, 26 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
is it just because you're black?
― sarahel, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I get that use of "anymore." I don't think I use it, but it makes sense to me.
― Jesse, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost to whiteboarder:He is probably trying to incent you with deliverables coming "down the pipe".
Actually, can we bring up the incessant incorrect use and/or construction of clichéd phrases??
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Or is there a malapropism thread?
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 26 July 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
That is so sad and cute, it makes me giggle.
― Jesse, Monday, 26 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Afterparty - used too much for things that aren't afterparties
― European Bob (admrl), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I have an irrational hatred for the terms "hubby" and "wifey".
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I use wifey here on the internets but actually I agree it is sort of lame
― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I should say MY BELOVED SPOUSE instead