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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...