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From: Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: LSSU 2006 List of Banished Words
I ran across this on some obscure news page, and then after reading
it, also
saw it on ABCnews.com. You have to visit the webpage and read the
short
description to appreciate why some of these made it to the banished
list.
From the Banished Words history page...
In order to gain the most media coverage possible, the Banishment
List is
released each year on New Year's Day. This is attributed to former
newsman
Rabe's knowledge of the press. New Year's Day is traditionally a
slow news
day.
2006 list...
BREAKING NEWS - Once it stopped presses. Now it's a lower-intestinal
condition brought about by eating dinner during newscasts. Now they
have to
interrupt my supper to tell me that Katie Holmes is pregnant. -
Michael
Raczko, Swanton, Ohio.
DESIGNER BREED - Many nominators consider this a bastardization of
dog
breeding. It may be a good line to use on angry neighbors when an
un-neutered dog escapes. When you mate a miniature schnauzer to a
toy
poodle, it's not a 'Schnoodle,' it's a mongrel. - George
Bullerjahn,
Bowling Green, Ohio.
SURREAL
HUNKER DOWN
PERSON OF INTEREST
COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS
UP OR DOWN VOTE
97% FAT FREE
FEMA
FIRST-TIME CALLER
PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO YOU!
AN ACCIDENT THAT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN
JUNK SCIENCE
GIT-ER-DONE
DAWG
TALKING POINTS
HOLIDAY TREE
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
Unfortunately, Git'R'Done isn't going away fast enough for me.
The thing I hate most about Larry the Cable Guy is that he makes
dumb-uninterested-hick-southerness appear to possess some sort of
mantle of coolness. This, IMO, causes unsophisticates to further
embrace the redneck ethic of stupidity worship as a virtue. And
*that* is a little too close to Cut'N'Shoot, Texas for my taste.
xponent
Unlike Sgt. York Maru
rob
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