Login Register Sign up for the GRM e-newsletter

Login to post Forums » Off-topic discussion » Most Overused Words and Phrases of 2009 « 1 2 3 4 5 »
  • Hocrest

    Dec. 18, 2009 8:52 a.m. Hocrest Reader

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

    Maybe the news report is about her ????

  • dimeadozen

    Dec. 18, 2009 9:24 a.m. dimeadozen New Reader

    "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.

  • Appleseed

    Dec. 18, 2009 11:31 a.m. Appleseed Dork

    ...

  • Appleseed

    Dec. 18, 2009 11:32 a.m. Appleseed Dork

    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.

  • 16vCorey

    Dec. 18, 2009 4:45 p.m. 16vCorey SuperDork

    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.

  • 4eyes

    Dec. 18, 2009 7:02 p.m. 4eyes Reader

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

  • joey48442

    Dec. 18, 2009 8:55 p.m. joey48442 SuperDork

    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

  • Appleseed

    Dec. 19, 2009 3:07 a.m. Appleseed Dork

    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."

  • suprf1y

    Dec. 19, 2009 12:16 p.m. suprf1y Reader

    To the OP

  • Datsun1500

    Dec. 19, 2009 12:44 p.m. Datsun1500 Dork

    Travis_K wrote:

    Any sentance that starts or ends with "in this economy", especially when the person says it doesnt really have anything to complain about.

    I love the people that are not paying their bills because of "this economy" yet they have had bad credit for years.....

  • speedblind

    Dec. 19, 2009 1:28 p.m. speedblind Reader

    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.

  • speedblind

    Dec. 19, 2009 1:30 p.m. speedblind Reader

    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.

  • racerdave600

    Dec. 19, 2009 4:56 p.m. racerdave600 Reader

    engage

  • joey48442

    Dec. 19, 2009 9:09 p.m. joey48442 SuperDork

    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

  • Appleseed

    Dec. 20, 2009 11:36 p.m. Appleseed Dork

    speedblind wrote:

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

    She did. Way back in the 80s.

  • Giant Purple Snorklewacker

    Dec. 21, 2009 12:25 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork

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

  • GlennS

    Dec. 21, 2009 1:07 p.m. GlennS Dork

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

  • Otto_Maddox

    Dec. 21, 2009 4:03 p.m. Otto_Maddox New Reader

    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.

  • neon4891

    Dec. 21, 2009 4:07 p.m. neon4891 UberDork

    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

  • Dec. 21, 2009 4:57 p.m. TucoRamirez New Reader

    -own it / take ownership of it

    -repurpose

    -terror

    -in these __ times.

    -I farted

    -I apologize for_.

    -when can we expect your payment.

  • Capt Slow

    Dec. 21, 2009 6:44 p.m. Capt Slow HalfDork

    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....

  • bigwrench

    Dec. 21, 2009 6:58 p.m. bigwrench Reader

    Pulling a'Palin" Awsome

  • DoctorBlade

    Dec. 21, 2009 9:12 p.m. DoctorBlade Reader

    "it's all Bush's fault."

  • poopshovel

    Dec. 22, 2009 9:13 a.m. poopshovel UltraDork

    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."

  • neon4891

    Dec. 23, 2009 1:31 a.m. neon4891 UberDork

    Ken Block, Video, Gymkana

« 1 2 3 4 5 »  

You'll need to log in to post.