Iconic this and Iconic that.
Everything is iconic
The iconic whatitz blah blah blah
And winning, stupid, weak, loser, smart, tough, dangerous, tremendous, amazing, terrific. ????
I had a Snickers bar, a joint, and a beer. Them was awesome, amazing, terrific! ????
Like, whatever. You know?
We start every conversation, be it a question or statement, with "So". It helps get the recipients dialed into the fact that there's going to be some serious pontificating forthcoming. So, I've started to use it in writing.?ÿ
My reply to that is, "no, I don't know what you mean, explain it to me."
When a reporter would interview a player, I would count the "you knows".?ÿ
One quarterback had the most, I quit counting after a minute or so, it was difficult to keep up.?ÿ
However, I will say it's important for a player to learn his clich??s...??..
"give 110 percent",?ÿ "next man up", ?ÿ "student of the game"
I imagine that an interview could be done with only a string of them, one after another.?ÿ
Now that reminded me of our previous president. Most of the fawning news media would fall all over themselves trying to portray him as a great orator but during nearly every speech or news interview I saw of him I felt like he was incapable of putting more than 4 words together to make a sentence without uttering "um" or "uh".
I thought he was a miserable example of a orator.
Classic, they're top of the list. Down this way there's a former rugby captain of the national team, that the media drag out for expert comments on upcoming games and recent results. And I'm not joking or exaggerating, in addition to the "you know" this guy just peels off a random collection of cliches and it gets hilarious when they're contradictory like: "You know at the end of the day they'll need to start from the beginning, you know play as a team because you know it's individual talent that will see them through".
I am so tired of people saying
"It is what It is"
Enough already.
We are in unchartered waters........................
Uh huh.?ÿ Try uncharted waters next time.
One local attorney seems to love the unchartered version.
Not in my wheelhouse
i think that is in Jim's shop
above my paygrade
so that at the end of the day
we'll be doing X going forward
and this'll be your piece, Jim, etc
Had a Division Chief that was a former corporate type (bank), he said stuff like above constantly. He had a very high opinion of himself which wasn't justified by anything any of the actual professionals could discern. But he looked good in a suit, typical corporate dumb-blank.
Former son in law prefaced many of his stellar observations with... ??I??m not gonna lie to you...? I never trusted much of what he said before that... even less after...
staffulty
Some dumb butt decided that an employment group consisting of faculty and other employees (custodians, drivers, cooks, aides, etc.) needed a single label.?ÿ Faculty and staff has been the go-to describer for decades in thousands of institutions.?ÿ Certified and classified is another common means of describing the entire group of employees.
Every time I read or hear staffulty used my reaction is similar to hearing nails scraping across a chalkboard.?ÿ?ÿ
For those of you who have no idea what a chalkboard is...........google it.
I would count the "you knows".?ÿ
Sounds like a drinking game...
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Using you knows for a drinking game would be a health hazard,,,,,,,,,or a suicide strategy.
"R e a l l y"?ÿ
"Buddy"
"Hard copies"
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Mine for the month:
pretty
pretty ugly, pretty hot, pretty cold, pretty high, pretty low,,,,,,,,,,,,
I'm finding myself using it and each time wanting to smack myself in the temple.?ÿ
It's accepted informally in the English language:?ÿ Pretty
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿadverb INFORMAL:?ÿ to a moderately high degree; fairly.
I find myself (note correct use of the word myself like above) typing it fairly often, then when reviewing posts I may change it to "absolutely", "somewhat", "rather", "quite", "reasonably", "unlikely" to refine my assertion, or eliminate the adverb entirely if it's actually redundant which declutters the sentence a bit.?ÿ But I was schooled old style by teachers who were monsters and would redline every picky error till my submittal was a sea of red.?ÿ The most profound comment on my high school advanced placement thesis was the redline of an entire paragraph with the comment "Rewrite so I can understand what you mean."?ÿ Hurtful.
