Am I all alone, or do some of you cringe at the over-used phrases
and expressions that clutter our everyday conversations? I could
name a couple dozen of them easily, but I'd like to ask my readers
(both of them) to weigh in and offer forth their least favorite, over-
used, and trite contributions to the All-American pastime of small-
talk. It's not like I'm asking them to design a burgee or anything.
I know, right?
ReplyDelete"Whatever floats your boat"
ReplyDeleteYour two readers have responded, next question!
ReplyDeleteLike
ReplyDelete"No worries, mate", coming from an American.
ReplyDeleteAlso, "So I went '___', and she went '___'".
ReplyDeleteThis one's particulary annoying to me because I actually catch myself doing it all the time.
Like, I was totally a teenager in the 80's, but, like, does that mean I should still be talking like a Valley Girl three decades later? No, no, a thousand times no! And yet I still hear myself doing it!
(ps - speaking of pop songs...here's proof that Lady Gaga has genuinely made it as an Icon of the Popular Music Industry! Yes, like Michael Jackson and Madonna, she's been spoofed by Weird Al Yankovick !
Been there, done that
ReplyDeleteI'll be at the Duck Boat Worlds, send me some sizes. I had to use your site my comment feature is FUBR'D
ReplyDeleteCharley, it is what it is.
ReplyDeleteYou got spoofed by Weird Al Yankovic? WOW!
ReplyDelete"No way"
ReplyDeleteWay!
ReplyDelete"My way, or the highway"
ReplyDeleteAttention: I just found out that Baydog used to work for the Mirror Newspaper in London, all the pictures he posts today were hacked from my camera. Although he might deny it, listen for my voice in the background of any videos.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding, Baydog and I met for the first time today, I think that he enjoyed the meeting. Why, because he threatened to move in to the location where we met. Good vibes from Davey, maybe we can meet over some food and good beer or wine in the future.
What he said. And then some. And those were not entries in my quest for over-used phrases. They were heartfelt phrases.
ReplyDeleteOh My God! I'm so with Tillerman "Like" is like so lame. Its like who says that anymore...
ReplyDeleteIt's lame, Doug, but like everybody
ReplyDeletestill like says like. I can't even
like cringe at the sound of it any more.
Totally
ReplyDeleteI'd have to go with "Can't win for lose". It bothers the crap out of me.
ReplyDeleteIn my engineering world, if the calculations aren't working out quite like the client hoped, I'll here people throw out:
ReplyDelete"Well, we'll go back and sharpen our pencils."
I guess it means we'll go redo the calcs to magically make something work.
I hear it enough to get sick of it.