Awesome is not such an awesome word that you people need to say it all the time. Seriously, “awesome” has been blown completely out of proportion. It used to be that anything that was AWESOME was actually worthy of awe. AWE! Awe is a big thing. A bowl of Captain Crunch cannot be awesome. Your [...]
Words I Hate
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Kerfuffle
See brouhaha. Then gouge out your eyes.
Pornography
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 [...]
Morose
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. I hated “morose” from the womb. I could hear my mother using it, mostly while [...]
Blowjob
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”, [...]
Xtreme
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, [...]
Pataflafla
In drumming, in particular using the snare drum, there are these things called “rudiments”. A rudiment is a basic pattern one learns to build a kind of drumming vocabulary. There are several national and international drumming organizations that recognize the most important rudiments, and currently there are at least 40 accepted rudiments. These range from [...]
Peccadillos
When the English language was created by God (around 4,000) years ago, He never meant for words like this to infect His perfect creation, which is in the image of His own language. But then in the 16th century, some lame-o needed attention and started talking about “peccadillos” when “flaws” or “small sins” would work [...]
