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  • M030

    Dec. 26, 2009 9:06 p.m. M030 Reader

    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!?

  • M030

    Dec. 26, 2009 9:08 p.m. M030 Reader

    ....and the words literally and actually

    "I literally had to go to the post office!"

    That's interesting.

    "No, I had to go there, like actually"

  • Wally

    Dec. 27, 2009 6:05 a.m. Wally UberDork

    Post 9/11 Thanks to some criminal mastermind setting his pants on fire on a plane we are back on a heightened state of alert. They play a poorly worded and read statement from DHS over our radio reminding us that we are the "Eyes and Ears" (another term i never need to hear again) of New York. and to be "extra vigilant" .

  • Luke

    Dec. 28, 2009 5:09 a.m. Luke SuperDork

    Also, "coming of age" needs to go and die.

  • suprf1y

    Dec. 28, 2009 8:34 a.m. suprf1y Reader

    Carbon footprint.

    You know what?

    I'm really tired of people prefacing everything they say with, 'you know what?'

  • 4cylndrfury

    Dec. 28, 2009 9:09 a.m. 4cylndrfury Dork

    Wally wrote:

    Post 9/11 Thanks to some criminal mastermind setting his pants on fire on a plane we are back on a heightened state of alert. They play a poorly worded and read statement from DHS over our radio reminding us that we are the "Eyes and Ears" (another term i never need to hear again) of New York. and to be "extra vigilant" .

    hmmm sounds familiar...George Orwell much?

  • joey48442

    Dec. 28, 2009 11:06 a.m. joey48442 SuperDork

    Wally wrote:

    Post 9/11 Thanks to some criminal mastermind setting his pants on fire on a plane we are back on a heightened state of alert. They play a poorly worded and read statement from DHS over our radio reminding us that we are the "Eyes and Ears" (another term i never need to hear again) of New York. and to be "extra vigilant" .

    all these dramatic words are stupid. "extra vigilant"? Can't the just say "keep an eye out"? The one that has bugged me this last decade is "lest we forget". None on of the people who have this bumper sticker would ever say "lest". I know. I actually say "lest" and people look at me like in weird. The sentiment is fine, but I woulduch rather a bumper sticker that says "let's not forgot what those bastards did" or something to that effect.

    Joey

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