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Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004
Shockmaster writes "Yahoo! has released their top searches of 2003. Google also has a year-end Zeitgeist wrap-up for popular search queries." Elsewhere, TheFairElf writes "The Miami Herald has Dave Barry's annual roundup of the year's main events titled 2003: A Dave Odyssey. The most significant events include the release of the fifth Harry Potter book 'Harry Potter Reaches Puberty and Starts Taking Really Long Showers' and the discovery of large quantities of sugar in Iraq which the CIA claimed 'is a leading cause of tooth decay'." Finally, wideangle writes "'Calling all metrosexuals: Get rid of that bling-bling - or at least find another word for it. In its annual compilation of language irritants, Lake Superior State University singled out 17 words and phrases that it says ought to be banned as overused, trite, euphemistic or just plain inaccurate." LOL, we wish everyone an Xtreme New Year from Slashdot, OMG.
fop: A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners.
dandy: A man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners.
dapper: a. Neatly dressed; trim. b. Very stylish in dress.
gentleman: A well-mannered and elegant man with high standards of proper behavior.
I can go on...there are others. But come on, pretending the reemergence of the gentleman fop is something new is just retarded. Jumping on the bandwagon of some writer's column...yuk. Might as well start incorporating slogans from WWE into your daily speech, it's the same concept.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Seems they must have edited it to make it politically correct. I'm betting these are the real ones:
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Top ten Jennifer Searches:
1. Jennifer Lopez naked
2. Jennifer Aniston naked
3. Jennifer Garner naked
4. Jennifer Love Hewitt naked
5. Jennifer Connelly naked
6. Jennifer Ellison naked
7. Jennifer Tilly naked
8. Jennifer Esposito naked
9. Jennifer Capriati naked
10. Jennifer O'Dell naked
Top ten movies:
1. Harry Potter slash fiction
2. Matrix download divx
3. Lord of the Rings download
4. Star Wars dvd download divx
5. X-Men hentai
6. Spiderman fanfic
7. Finding Nemo download
8. Hulk download
9. Matrix Reloaded download
10. The Ring download edonkey
The internet is a sad place.
This is surely one of the signs of the Apocalypse...
Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
We all know the REAL top queries
1. Britney Spears naked
2. Harry Potter torrent
3. Matrix sucked!
4. Shakira's fine fine ass
etc.
schild
editor, f13.net
Note that the most popular film search on Google for the Netherlands wasn't LOTR, the Matrix, or Finding Nemo; it was 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Whatever it is I'm complaining about, I'm sure the Republicans did it. This is
IANAL, but IMNSHO, TLAs and other MIAs should not be banned. After I RTFA, I was ROFLMAO at the proposition that these quips have no place in the lexicon... YMMV, of course, and of course YAETYOO...
Words that sound like English are fine. Metrosexual? Fine. I don't know what it means, but it doesn't irritate. Bling bling? Don't you just laugh when you hear that? Or want to injure someone? It's not a word, it's just stupid. We educated folk (or those who think they are ;) need to draw the line somewhere.
Next thing we know, Bush is going to "glork glork" the Iraqi people. Have fun misunderestimating that.
My other car is first.
Calling "calling terms like 'metrosexual' or 'bling bling' irritating" silly is irritating.
~:P
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
The REAL number one search of 2003 was for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, wasn't it?
have struggled to try and convince people that it's far more in depth than just cars going around in circles.
Yes. Sometimes, the cars also crash.
~Philly
dammit! don't tell us it's the new year yet!
think about us in the pacific time zone!
you bastards!
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
1. KaZaA
2. Harry Potter
3. American Idol
4. Britney Spears
5. 50 Cent
6. Eminem
7. WWE
8. Paris Hilton 9. NASCAR
10. Christina Aguilera
I wonder which ones Yahoo were paid to feature in that "top 10" and which one made the real top 10.
I thought the #1 search has always been "Sex".
Such errors are pardon parcel with people who learn the language through speech and not through reading. I could of made that same mistake had I not encountered the phrase in print before hearing it. Sadly, people who don't read just can't cut the muster. I'd just assume watch a movie instead of read a book.
On a related note, why are explosions always rocking, e.g., "Explosions rock Baghdad"? Why don't they ever roll?
> When I was at university, a friend of mine dated a
> younger girl who used "lol" (pronounced "lawl") in verbal
> conversation. That was too weird.
My kids say it out loud too.
I'm considering selling them.
Lake Superior State U, wow that is obviously a place of higher learning, with serious subjects and weighty discussion occupying large amounts of the industrious, academically driven students. Then again maybe the sit around and talk about useless inane B$. You be the judge. I would have expected to see reality TV there, afterall we know the networks just plain CAN'T NOT script everything down to the slightest audience chuckle, just ask Ozzy :)
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
I cannot believe that Google, in their review of the year, made such a huge error as the following:
"The annual Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at Roland Garros in Paris each spring."
Umm, folks, the Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at *Wimbledon* in England. The *French Open* Tennis Tournament is what takes place at Roland Garros in Paris.
Next they'll be saying that the American Open tennis tournament takes place in London, and the Australian Open in New York.
I am anarch of all I survey.