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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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The internet is a sad place.
"quote... unquote". There is no such thing as "unquote" -- it's "end quote". Using "quote unquote" as a prefix to the purported quote is doubly irritating.
"It's like this...." I don't give a blinking fuck what it's like, I want to know what it is.
People who mess up the meanings of precision and accuracy tick me off. 165.04452 +/= 50 is precise, but not very accurate. Abuse of significant digits is another irritant.
You could've hired me.
Actually, I don't think lol is such a bad expression. To me, it means something like "heh" or more like breathing out and saying "is that right?"* in real life. Since you can't express those emotions in words, we made one for use online. OTOH, people misuse lol and say it after everything. That in and of itself is not bad, if there's a funny conversation it seems right to use lol instead of a smiley. I liked smileys back when they weren't turned into gay (sorry, that's a word that needs to go) yellow things. So lol stays as text and works out better.
:) [lol, heh, rofl]
In summary, replace "LOL" with "gay" as an adjective. That would be better.
Also, anyone who says "bling-bling" is going to be shot by me. And anyone who writes in the passive voice.
Wow, the first time a grammar nazi-like post has been on topic. I'll go now
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* Actually, 'lol ok' == 'is that right?' IMO. My friends and I have shortened that to lok, which is more efficient (save on bandwidth, my friends) than 'is that right?'
My other car is first.
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.
The REAL number one search of 2003 was for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, wasn't it?
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".
On a related note, why are explosions always rocking, e.g., "Explosions rock Baghdad"? Why don't they ever roll?
Normally, bad grammar and malformed words just roll off me. But for some reason this one really gets my back up:
"Incentivize"
The verb form of "incentive", presumably intended to mean, "to provide incentives for," which is another way of saying 'encourage' or 'influence'.
...Except that "incentive" is itself the noun form of the verb "incent", which means to encourage or influence. So you could use an actual word, save five letters, and not look like a pretentious twit.
Don't get me started...
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It's not the new year without the Washington Posts's annual list of what's out and what's in for 2004.