Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Banned Words of 2011™: Culling The List

I've cut a couple below. We've got to get down to ten. What else needs to go? What must stay? No more additions!

Because it's never too early to put the world on notice...
  1. Frenemies
  2. Social Media Pointless to ban it. It's all everyone's going to talk about for at least another year or so.
  3. Sexting So very Tiger Woods, i.e., so very passé.
  4. Obamabot
  5. How's that workin' out for ya?
  6. Establishment
  7. Mainstream
  8. Lamestream
  9. Emboldened Not annoying enough to be banned.
  10. Litmus Test
  11. Blowout preventer Not what we'll remember about the BP disaster.
  12. Top Kill See "Blowout preventer"
  13. Real Housewives of ___________
  14. Gaga I liked her on DADT.
  15. Junk Shot Can't even remember to what this refers.
  16. Enthusiasm Gap Didn't really have legs. Really only relevant the month or so before elections. We may have to revisit this in 2012.
  17. Mixologist/Mixology This may be too east cost liberal elite.
  18. Folks (when uttered by any politician)
  19. Elites
  20. Hysterical"Breathless" is more ubiquitous.
  21. Breathless
  22. Fee Fees
  23. Structural Unemployment Too econo-blog centered to ban.
  24. Epistemic Closure This one is really too bloggy-circle-jerkish to warrant total banning.
  25. Hippie Punching
  26. Bipartisan
  27. The American People
  28. Homeland

Here are your 2010, 2009, and 2008 lists.

8 comments:

Raoul Paste said...

Lamestream (ack!) is surely in the top 10. Sounds like the creation of an 8 year old.

res ipsa loquitur said...

Raoul,

Agree that "lamestream" needs to be banned, probably at the expense of "mainstream"and/or "establishment".

pansypoo said...

uncertainty.

only death + tax cuts are certain.

newbroom said...

These are on MY list: it is what it is.........and........you know what I'm sayin?

Litzz11@yahoo.com said...

I'm catching shit for using "fail" as a noun but fuckit, Iike it.

Anonymous said...

Enthusiasm Gap - I just can't get very enthusiastic about this one...

Epistemic Closure - bring this one back, please. I'd really like to have some closure here.

Establishment - forget it, it's a zombie. We beat this one to death in the 60's and it just comes back...

bill said...

I wish I could add a preemptive strike on next year's list since I'm pretty certain we'll be hearing "up or down vote" ring through the halls of the Senate again.

For this year, once again I'm way too late to offer my best word/phrase to ban

man-cave

Drouse said...

Hopey changey

For any number of reasons.