I feel a little grumpy today, so here’s a list of things I would be damn okay never seeing again:
- Enormity used in a sentence to mean big.
- When I read something like the enormity of campaign spending, I wonder if the writer means spending is heinous or just really big.
- It could be both, I guess.
- I’m already tired of fiscal cliff.
- What other cliffs will we come up with?
- When Christmas Eve comes, will last-minute shoppers be peering over the Christmas Cliff?
- If you’re running out of food, will you be close to the refrigacliff?
- If we fall off the fiscal cliff, is it a cliffatality?
- I’m trademarking that one.
- Cliffatality™
- I hope it doesn’t get as bad as all those ageddon words last year.
- Like Stormageddon.
- How about Cliffageddon?
- We’ve reached a perfect storm of lazy writing
- Oh yes, and perfect storm is a perfect example.
- That’s why I can’t watch that movie.
- The title became a cliché.
- I don’t want to read Definitely spelled with an a.
- When did that start? I don’t remember anyone regularly misspelling definitely in seventh grade.
- An easy way to avoid misspelling definitely is to never write it.
- Is I will never again stick uncooked spaghetti up my nose any stronger if I add definitely in there?
- Didn’t think so.
- We all remember what Stephen King said about adverbs.
- And that thing where I just asked and answered my own question?
- Enough of that, too.
- Should I assume anyone else is asking the same question?
- I think not.
- Oops, I did it again.
- Now you have that song stuck in your head.
P.S. Check out these books in which I refuse to take my own medicine. I mean, please do, because the holidays are nigh, and I don’t want to be too broke on Christmas Cliff to buy my children their woolen socks.
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