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Category Archives: Trying to be Cool

Irony / Ironic

“Irony” has been a word I hated for a long time, but it’s almost TOO BIG now to blog about. The problems with this word are almost too egregious and too numerous to do justice to it. Nonetheless, it screams out for an entry here, if only to put me on record as anti-irony. Certainly, [...]

Posted 11 August 2010 † Christopher § Adjectives § Incorrectly Used § Meaningless § Nouns § Overused § Pop Lexicon ‡ Comments (4) °

Awesome

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 [...]

Posted 07 March 2010 † Christopher § Adjectives § Overused ‡ Comments (15) °

Cosplay

I think it is wonderful that adults like to play dress-up, be it for sexual purposes or just for fun. In fact, I even think it’s fair that we have a word specifically to describe the practice. But the word “cosplay” was thought up by a monkey. A STUPID monkey. One with a brain injury [...]

Posted 23 September 2009 † Christopher § Neologisms § Sex § Sounds Stupid ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Vegas, Baby!

Please observe the following phenomenon: When a person is going to Las Vegas, or even when simply talking about Las Vegas, rather than saying I’m going to Las Vegas. they say I’m going to Vegas, baby! Did Las Vegas change its name to Vegas Baby? It is the only reasonable explanation. The alternative is that [...]

Posted 13 September 2009 † Christopher § Expressions § Sounds Stupid ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: