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The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

Harp

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Lotta Little said:
Also, I am totally in the wrong thread! Sorry, need coffee.


...missed morning java too, and walked past the Art Institute today,
and two blocks down Michigan Avenue had to turn around. :eusa_doh:

Like Salinger's Catcher in the Rye? :) :coffee:
 

Marc Chevalier

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"Woo Hoo!" -- The Lamest of Expressions

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In honor of Lady Day and her amusing peeve, I'll follow Tango Yankee's lead and offer up my own linguistic peeve for sacrifice. To wit:


"WOO HOO!"


It looks idiotic. It sounds idiotic. It is idiotic. It makes people who say it seem really, really dorky. Why won't this miserable exclamation just die?

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Marc Chevalier

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Lefty said:
That seems close, but Sorry and No Problem aren't cliches. Based upon the posts in these two threads, I think that what we need is a thread called

"You're Not Being Polite in The Way That I Demand My Politeness"

or

"Act Accordingly - According to Me"

or

"Sorry Isn't Good Enough; Beg My Pardon"


:p

Three quips of the day, and by the same Lounger! A record! :eusa_clap
 

Lefty

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rumblefish

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I like when common expressions get miss-said like; I could care less...:rolleyes: :eusa_doh: Huh??? I don't know how many times I've tried to explain to some one who uses this phrase (this way), that they've said absolutely nothing.:p
 

Caity Lynn

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I say "whoo" especially over the internet ...
"I just got accepted to harvard!"
"whoo!, good for you!"

It's like a whoop for me, Like at a ball game "whoo!!!" and a loud whistle [huh]
 

Sertsa

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Your point has me thinking there aren't many vulgarity-free expletives for excitement. "Yee Haw" and "Yippee!" don't seem much better. Someone will probably cringe at "Groooovvvvvineesssss" and "YippaYippaYippaMcCOY!" (OK, so I just made that one up), and no one can really do "YESsssssss! without shades of either Napoleon Dynamite or Marv Albert.

Maybe it's time to bring back "Dyn-O-Mite!"

I'll have to test it out and go find something exciting right now.
 

Hemingway Jones

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Here is the place to pose those everyday utterances of speech that you take offense to for whatever reason.

Also, if the merge is somewhat awkward when we mash three threads together, it''s a good reminder to quote someone when you respond to them so that, should the thread be merged, your response still makes sense.
:)
 

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