I can’t handle the snark…
There’s been something eating away at me lately – and I blame Friends. More specifically, I blame Chandler Bing in Friends. The influence of that programme, now forever stuck in a feedback loop of...
View ArticleBanned Phrases of 2007
The following phrases and/or syntactical constructions are now officially old. Please stop using them immediately: “Wow. Just wow”. The word “really” used on its own for sardonic emphasis. (eg: “I...
View ArticleKarma’s Gonna Get Ya
Following my tetchy anti-Buffyism rant earlier this week, I settled down with an as yet unopened season 4 BtVS boxset, only to discover that disc four is missing. It must have disappeared into a hell...
View ArticleBrains Needed
I’m trying to work out the etymology of two phrases that seem to have become common in the blogosphere. If anyone knows where they might come from (TV show? Specific web site? ), then I’d be grateful....
View ArticleWhat’s in a Word?
2,091 web users, polled by British research body YouGov, were asked to cite the Internet generated words and phrases that bug them… 1. Folksonomy2. Blogosphere3. Blog4. Netiquette5. Blook (a book based...
View ArticleWhore, whore, whore.
Poor Santa Claus. Still reeling from the ignominy of having Christmas lights renamed “Winter decorations” in some UK towns last year, the gravitationally challenged present deliverer has been...
View ArticleJamie’s Slip of the Tongue
Reading this story from the Daily Star via DigitalSpy, I wondered why I’d never noticed the unfortunate spoonerism at the heart of it before. I mean, now I’ve seen it and read it out loud – several...
View ArticleThe Rape of the Word “Rape”
Ladies and gentlemen, I am a geek. I know this because, sometimes, I visit web forums where people discuss the metaphysics of Doctor Who and the minutiae of Star Trek warp technology. And I actually...
View ArticleBanned Phrases of 2008
Remember my super previous posting “Banned Phrases of 2007″. Well this is exactly the same, but for 2008. DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE? By the way, what I just said? That’s one of them… These are...
View Article3. Profit.
Made-up statistics suggest that 43% of all Internet communication is the simple recitation and repetition of catchphrases, script snippets and sketches from popular TV programmes. I’m not taking about...
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