I am a clean guy. I like my room to be tidy, my hallway to be swept, and my kitchen to be insect-free. But there are those that would accuse me of “being OCD”. This acronym, which once stood for “obsessive-compulsive disorder”, is now a simple stand-in for cleanliness, perpetrated by the denizens of filth, [...]
People, listen up and listen good. “Meta” is not an adjective. It is a prefix which can take one of two meanings:
connected with a change of position or state
metamorphosis
metabolism
higher; beyond
metaphysics
metalanguage
But now some people have decided it would be a good idea to take this PREFIX and turn it into its own WORD, because apparently “arcane” [...]
It’s not 1955 anymore. With the exception of a few holdouts (probably loosely affiliated with Jesus) pornography is accepted as part of modern living. And while it may still have some very important political issues concerning the exploitation of women, most of what you will find out there is not obscene, much of it is [...]
I think I’ve hated morose longer than any word I can remember hating.
It’s likely I first got acquainted with it while studying for the SATs in high school, but I’m sure I hated it even before I heard it. But it took me until just today to realize why I hate it.
Normally I like words [...]
This one has bugged me for years. We have many euphemisms for oral sex, which I won’t go into here, but only a few terms that are used in common parlance. There are a fair number of sexy ways a person can describe fellatio, such as “suck your cock”, “suck you off”, “fuck my mouth”, [...]
Why is this horseshit still going on? Why is it necessary to be “extreme” anything, and at that, so extreme you forget how to spell? “Xtreme” isn’t extreme anymore, it’s boring and predictable.
We’ve talked about the “dirty little X” before. We love that X. But “Xtreme” just throws that X right in our faces, and [...]