Forget those extra 10 pounds. They aren’t going anywhere. So much easier to swear off a few flabby words.
Let’s start the new year off fresh and dump the comfy cliches once and for all. Some of the ones below always sucked; others have worn out their welcome like an incontinent grandma.
I say we pinky-swear not to use the following words when we blog, as of midnight, New Year’s Eve:
* asshat
* moonbat
* sweet
* MSM
* idiotarian
* heh
Add your own in the comments.
heh…
Awwwwe. I liked all of them. Need to think up some new ones though, you know, just to keep things fresh.
“Chilling,” unless it refers to what you’re doing with champaigne.
heh, what kind of moonbat idiotarian MSM loving asshat would come with a list this sweet?
heh! Sweet!
Kathy Shaidle is Trying to Oppress Me
Kathy is guest blogging over at
Small Dead Animals and she wants to eliminate half the words I use in every blog post:
Let’s start the new year off fresh and dump the comfy clichés once and for all. Some of the ones below always sucked; other…
pale:
You win!!!
Are you a law abiding citizen…?
Do you own a handgun…………?
Well it’s YOUR fault that blacks are shooting blacks in toronto..!!
You the legal hand gun owner are the real criminals..!!
You Will be punished..!!
Paul Martin says so…..!!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice day …vote liberal….!!!!!!!!
I love the word moonbat,
Excuse the dumb question… but what does ‘moonbat’ mean? I haven’t used it cause I don’t know its meaning…
“[something], indeed,” as in “Cliches, indeed.”
I support the war on cliches!
Jose: supposedly it means someone who won’t change their position when presented with facts that show they are wrong. I think a lot of rightists think it’s fair to assume that leftists are, by default, wrong, and that their positions are necessarily based on false premises. It’s continued use as a catch-all for all leftists does nothing for genuine debate and discourse (not saying that those are goals of anyone in the blogosphere, just saying).
OH! I got another cliche to ban:
“Just saying.”
I’m keeping “moonbat”, “moonbassity” and “moonbattery”.
Until the blogosphere becomes MSM, I’ll keep using MSM. I type slow…
But I love “asshat” and “idiotarian”! What are the equivilants you intend to use??
As a chiroptologist Moonie, thanks for sticking up for us.
What should MSM be replaced with?
Fricken Propagandising SOBs is a bit long to type.
What do you call the Micheal Moores of the world if not asshat moonbat? If the foo shits ya wear it.
Clearly.
Clearly.
Clearly.
Clearly.
Clearly.
Prime Minister announces plans to ban all tired adverbial phrases that introduce Prime Ministerial Platitudes.
Yearly.
“Liberal Government”
Not a chance pal .. there are already too many people in this country trying to take away what’s left of my culture.
Culture is language .. ask any frenchman in Quebec.
Those words are English speaking peoples slang and when you get negroes to stop saying mo-fo dawg and bitch, I will take another look .. deal?
Have a laugh at Dukes Place .. http://dukemcgoo.blogspot.com
Looking forward to never seeing this again
“PMPM is an asshat”
and seeing a lot of this
“XPMPM is an asshat”
I’ll stop using any of those terms if and only if the Liberals lose the election.
Deal?
Can we use SIW (Senators in Waiting) for MSM?
Moonbat is a political epithet coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata,” a libertarian weblog. It was originally a play on the last name of George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian.
moonbat
Nyet, comrade. Asshat was a mainstay in my vocabulary long before most people knew what a blog was and I have no plans to retire it.
I hate to lose MSM because my chubby fingers have difficulty typing mainstream media without making a typo.
I agree with all the rest Kahty. Sort of.
Therefore, I will stop using MSM if we acknowledge that the current mainstream media are nothing more than Liberal “Lickspittle”.
G’day eh?
See what I mean about chubby fingers, Kathy?
Sorry!!
For the best definition of the word “moonbat”, do a search on Wikipedia. You’ll get the “whole enchilada” there. Say, isn’t whole enchilada a cliche?
How about adding Bwhahahahaha to the list…that is so lame.
I agree with nixing
– moonbat
– boondoggle
But MSM is still a good way to indicate main stream media or pravada newspaper.
Oh no,we are not going to be politically correct on Kate’s site nor is it going to be hijacked by a commenter.Heh, at the end of one of her posts speaks volumes and if you dont like what she posts then I would direct you to archives on sda.com June14,2005- Complaint Procedure.
Please oh please do not take away Dipper, Librano, Lieberal, and my favorite doodleheads. On second though doodleheads can go.
On a similar note one term I hope politicians and the media would lose.
“moral authority”
Can we add “Canadians feel…” ?
Kathy, don’t cave in to the asshats. The Moonbats have a sweet deal with the MSM from which they will never let go. They have the upper hand, every last idiotarian.
Heh.
I don’t suppose we could do away with “blog” by any chance?
Hey, yah, Occam- “blog” is indeed a crappy word. When I first encountered the word I assumed it meant a silly walk or something gay guys do to each other.
I always get the same reaction to the word “blog” when asking folks if they know about them. They frown in disgust and ask, “What’s that?”
I fear we may be stuck with the word “blog” and will always be known as “bloggers”. I swear, they sound like dirty words, curses or epithets.
I wish there could be a new word for this thing we do here. Really.
Are you all crazy?
You are talking like these adjectives are actually going to be taken away and there’s nothing you can do about it.
No wonder the Liberals are so successful.
Christ, get some balls and some individuality and use whatever god damned words you want to express yourself wherever you want .. and the rest of you can damned well tolerate it.
Isn’t that what you people are on here whining about all the time .. freedom of expression the stupidity of political correctness etc etc sheeesh use the brain people! Watch you don’t fall off the that cliff to the left of you.
Meanwhile … have a good laugh at Duke’s place
http://dukemcgoo.blogspot.com
What Duke said. Death to the liberano scumbag moonbats!!!!!!
“Moonbat” is a perfect word to describe the touchy-feely ecofascist left.
NFW will I abandon the appropriate tools at our disposal
Wow, I’ve… never used one of those.
What the hell are we supposed to say in the meantime???
Quiz: You are faced with a rabid violent home invader. Your choices are ..
(a) An armed policeman who isn’t there.
(b) You, with a gun who is there.
(c) You, no gun.
If the words are banned and we get a Liberal Government……will we have to register our vocabulary???
You can have my words of choice when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
Down with the word registry!
I made a list of the 7 words you can’t say during this election:
idiot
criminal
extremist
private
reform
majority
Gomery
Phil,
Also add the following words (and variations thereof) that MSM have voluntarily banned for use in describing the federal Liberals and their policies: “nazi”, “dictator”, “thief”, “liar”, “thug”, “whore”, “incompetent” among many others.
Other words unofficially banned from MSM daily use include: “freedom”, “democracy”, “efficient”, “effective”, “intelligent”, “individual rights”, “normal winter weather” and “christmas”.
Addendum note to the above: the MSM will substitute “two hundred forty dollars” in place of “christmas”. For example: Mr. Prime Minister, is that your “$240 wreath”? To which he would answer: “Why yes it is. Season’s greetings Mary Lou and Barbara.
Volcano Cam
After January 23rd, I promise not to say Liberal Government…..
!
The Definition of “Useful Idiots”
Oh brother. U.S. Activists Trek Toward Guantanamo.
HAVANA – American activists reached the halfway point in a long trek toward the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay to protest treatment of terror suspects, but it appeared unlikely the communist government would let them enter a Cuban military zone to reach the U.S. outpost.
Marchers from the largely Christian group, Witness Against Torture, said by cellular telephone on Thursday that they had completed about half of the 50-mile trek from the eastern city of Santiago.
The 25 marchers, who set out Wednesday, hope to arrive at � or at least near to � the naval base by Saturday, which is International Human Rights Day. The march was organized by the Catholic Worker movement, an anti-war and social justice alliance. [Orwellian inversion of language, anyone? �ed.]
�We don�t know how far we can get, so every step forward is an amazing thing,� said Shelia Stumph, a 28-year-old marcher from Raleigh, N.C.>>>>
Question for these hopelessly stupid, narcissistic moonbat �activists:� how does it feel to be willing propaganda tools of a totalitarian government that uses torture as a routine method of suppressing dissent? via LGF
Um, how the hey did those Americans get into Cuba? It’s not like you can just fly there from, er, Miami. Could go via Canada, I suppose, the problem these days isn’t so much Cuba letting you in but the U.S. letting you back in when Immigration sees the Cuban visa stamp in your passport.
I nominate “whatever”. ‘Cause, you know, whatever.
How about dropping the phrase “extreme right-wing” when referring to the left-of-John-Kerry Conservative party? Any chances that will get traction among the idiotarian moonbats in the MSM? It would be sweet to see those asshats (Liberano senators in waiting / future governors general) admit that the Conservatives are actually left of center. Or to clearly make it, really really, the very very number one top priority. Foo. Heh. Indeed. Read the whole thing.
I don’t want to hear some asshole lieberal continuosly telling me what it is that “Real Canadians” want,