Up for your consideration....
So here I am sitting at work. I have nothing to do until September so I thought I would compile a list of words that I am striking from the English Language. From this day forward you will no longer hear me utter the following words or phrases, and you might have never heard me say them in the first place. But just in case I am removing them from my vocabulary. Please feel free to debate, agree, or argue to save a word if you feel I am unjustifiably giving it a bad rep.
In no particular order (well expect for the first word):
Hella
For Sure
Keen
Emo
You don't even know
My bad
Put that in your pipe and smoke it
Gravy Train with Biscut Wheels (This one is still up for consideration)
Drop it like it's hot
Psyche!
Latch Key Kid(Now only applies in reference to the Bad Religion song)
Street Cred
The surprise hit of the (insert season)
Raider Nation
Dish pan hands
Chug-a-lug
Hot diggity damn
Man Games (As in Man Games lost to injury)
Gnarly
Any word that has "izzle" incorporated into it
Preggers or Preggo
Tight
The Bomb
Naysay
Sticktoitiveness
Fruition
wOOt
It's all good
Dawg
Shazam!
Be that as it may
Behooves
Guffaw
Hunker Down
Git-Er-Done
Holla!
Table (when used as a verb, as in "Let's table that discussion")
Shoppe
Towne
Olde
Boo (as in I love my Boo, word still applies to Halloween)
Reek
Bootie
Axin'
posted by Dan at 8/18/2006 10:25:00 AM
9 Comments:
Hmmm....seems reasonable.
12:27 PM
Oh yeah, and anytime you wanna go for lunch again (for the next couple of weeks anyway)just email me ahead of time so I don't bring my lunch. That goes for Emily too obviously. I have to check my email all day anyway. My bosses send me work by email a lot.
12:29 PM
I agree for the most part. You might also want to add "junk in the trunk", "you don't know me!" and "own" (as in "you own that project" and "ownership society").
I have to disagree about "izzle" though. I think that one still has some life left in it. "Shazam" is usable only when done in a Gomer Pyle voice or making fun of Shaq's acting career.
1:05 PM
Speaking of emo, I saw a funny shirt at hot topic. It said "Finding Emo" an had a clown fish with big brown puppy-dog eyes wearing a shaggy hair style.
1:06 PM
I agree with "junk in the trunk" unless you literally have junk in your trunk. I think anything with izzle has already been played out. I still enjoy the occasional "you don't know me" so I will not be able to include that for at least another 6 months. This is a list in progress and always has room for improvement. I only put Shazam up there since I recently changed from yelling Shazam! when I roll the dice in craps, to PoPoZow!
1:27 PM
PoPoZow is good for just about any occasion and as a greeting.
I thought of a couple more:
-"power" when used in conjunction with tie, suit, lunch, walk, etc.
-"dawg"
2:05 PM
Dawg is already on the list. There is no way it couldn't be.
What about "power" when used with Punky?
2:13 PM
Absolutely not, nor Power Ranger.
2:20 PM
How about whiz-bang? You don't hear it often but it's bad every time.
9:02 AM
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