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November 19, 2004
Words and phrases that people use and bug the crap out of me: * "Center around" -- actually, that's impossible. * "Conscious" instead of "conscience" -- one means you think, the other means Jiminy Cricket. * "As of yet" -- "as of now" or "as yet". * Those damn homophones -- I know it's bothersome to remember the difference between place (there) and possession (their) and people (they're), but aside from a typo here and there, (see?) I don't understand why this is difficult. * See also: "your" and "you're". Go watch the famous breakup scene with Ross and Rachel. * "President Bush" * "Mah Fella Merkins" -- Ee-NUN-see-ate.This was Geekery , and it appeared on November 19, 2004 2:44 PM.
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You realize that Bush is the president, right? He even got elected this time, so we really do have to acknowledge it. Keep that denial for “Reagan” National.
BTW, which of these is the greatest incongruity: naming an airport for a man who destroyed the air traffic controllers union; memorializing a privatization advocate through a government-owned, taxpayer-supported facility; or doing it in a city that was the only place other than home state Minnesota to go for Mondale in 1984?
Posted by: PG at November 20, 2004 5:05 PM
I realize it; that doesn’t mean it can’t bug me. My guy lost, sure, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
I’m going for the one about privitization. Air Traffic Controllers probably could do their job away from Reagan’s airport.
Posted by: New Blue Shoe at November 21, 2004 8:07 PM
Found you by way of This Fish. Good stuff!
Let’s not forget:
“Tad bit” “Might could” - prevalent in the South where I live now.
Drives. Me. Nuts.
Posted by: Muffy Wong at November 22, 2004 4:37 PM
I too found you via the Fish. And some of this crap also drives me crazy. Like “for all intensive purposes.” Aaagh!
For a while, “yeah, right?” as a reaction to something I’ve said, which is not so much a question as an affirmation, was really bugging me.
Posted by: Esther at November 23, 2004 1:11 PM
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