Blog, Funny, Internet, Language

3. Profit.

22/04/2008

Made-up statistics suggest that 43% of all Internet communication is the simple recitation and repetition of catchphrases, script snippets and sketches from popular TV programmes.  I’m not taking about random...

Blog, Culture, Internet, Language

Banned Phrases of 2008

03/04/2008

Remember my super previous posting “Banned Phrases of 2007”.  Well this is exactly the same, but for 2008.  DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?  By the way, what I...

Blog, Language

The Rape of the Word “Rape”

02/12/2007

Ladies and gentlemen, I am a geek. I know this because, sometimes, I visit web forums where people discuss the metaphysics of Doctor Who and the minutiae of Star Trek...

Blog, Language

Jamie’s Slip of the Tongue

23/11/2007

Reading this story from the Daily Star via DigitalSpy, I wondered why I’d never noticed the unfortunate spoonerism at the heart of it before. I mean, now I’ve seen it...

Blog, Language

Whore, whore, whore.

15/11/2007

Poor Santa Claus. Still reeling from the ignominy of having Christmas lights renamed “Winter decorations” in some UK towns last year, the gravitationally challenged present deliverer has been instructed to...

Blog, Culture, Internet, Language

What’s in a Word?

22/06/2007

2,091 web users, polled by British research body YouGov, were asked to cite the Internet generated words and phrases that bug them… 1. Folksonomy2. Blogosphere3. Blog4. Netiquette5. Blook (a book based...

Blog, Language

Brains Needed

10/06/2007

I’m trying to work out the etymology of two phrases that seem to have become common in the blogosphere.  If anyone knows where they might come from (TV show? Specific...

Blog, Language, TV and Film

Karma’s Gonna Get Ya

13/01/2007

Following my tetchy anti-Buffyism rant earlier this week, I settled down with an as yet unopened season 4 BtVS boxset, only to discover that disc four is missing. It must...

Blog, Language

Banned Phrases of 2007

08/01/2007

The following phrases and/or syntactical constructions are now officially old. Please stop using them immediately: “Wow. Just wow”. The word “really” used on its own for sardonic emphasis. (eg: “I...

Blog, Language

I can’t handle the snark…

17/08/2006

There’s been something eating away at me lately – and I blame Friends. More specifically, I blame Chandler Bing in Friends. The influence of that programme, now forever stuck in...