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  1. Re:Get Off My Lawn, Punk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon

    Clearly this "banned words list" is more of a joke than anything. There are some people and linguistic organizations who really do try to promote a specific variant of English, but this is not it. Take a look at the actual list: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
    They're just making some observations about linguistic developments that many people find annoying. Hint: If it sounds like it was meant to be creative in a one-time public speech but made its way into the popular language, it might be annoying. Now, if they started telling you that you need to use the word "whom" in some contexts, what you said about the evolution of language would be dead on.

  2. Link to the list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon

    http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php They appear to either hate political discourse or the sound-bite products of political discourse.

  3. Hazardous to health. Here is the MP3 and a video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Undisturbed Tomb found in the Valley of the Kings

    Men Without Hats, Safety Dance... music MP3, music video MPG

    Everyone please download those files to 50%, then cancel download, flush download cache, download again, repeat: ie no less than Slashdot.

    Anyone that dances with midgets is no friend of meinen.

  4. Torrent? Yeah, right by aerojad · · Score: 0 · on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Ready For Download

    Still wish we were allowed to use the bt network here. Times like these made me wish I went to a tech school. At least my chances of being understood might rise to 1% from 0.

  5. Good Days Already Gone by aerojad · · Score: 5, Interesting · on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed

    The school I go to has already ended the party, limiting the crap out of BT connections, so my speeds dropped from 500-600k/sec to 3-4k/sec for each torrent. What's the speed something has to drop to so that driving to where the server is, burning a cd, and driving home is faster than the download itself?

    Any other schools out there get a similar clampdown?

  6. Re:I agree, mod parent up! by thatnerdguy · · Score: 0 · on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die

    Wasn't metrosexual one of those banished words of 2004 It's at the top of the list in fact!

  7. Don't these guys know any history? by J.+J.+Ramsey · · Score: 1 · on Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004

    From the 2004 List of Banished Words:

    SMOKING GUN - Another one that came to us from Iraq, but is widely used elsewhere.

    The term "smoking gun" did not come "to us from Iraq." Please. It is at least as old as the Watergate scandal.

  8. Dead or Alive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Stardust Probe Enters Comet's Tail Tomorrow

    Will the material be captured alive?

  9. Since submitters and editors can't be bothered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004

    Here is the karma whoring link to the list.

    I will not stop until AC's are redeemed and have enough karma to post at a minimum of +1.

  10. Re:The element song by polymath69 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Science Songs as MP3

    No doubt, the brilliant effort of Tom Lehrer.

  11. BANISHED! by CaptainSuperBoy · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Linux Virus Alert

    From LSSU's 2002 Banished Words List, under the redundancies section -

    FOREWARN - "But if not, then warn after the fact."

    Please don't use that word any more. It's redundant.