Friday, October 09, 2009

Banned Words of 2010™: 'Neath the Cover of October Skies Update

Had to update the list again, because the blogs and media have a new favorite word that is really starting to annoy me. We've got to nip this baby in the bud before things get out of hand.

Because it's never too early to put the world on notice...

As always, new items in BOLD. Add your suggestions in comments. We'll cull this list to ten in December.
  1. Gamechanger
  2. Recession
  3. Sausage grinder (re the legislative process)
  4. Gunman
  5. Bonus
  6. Teachable Moment
  7. Lockdown
  8. Too big to fail
  9. Octomom
  10. Toxic assets
  11. Stress Test
  12. Obamism
  13. Color Story
  14. Green shoots (re the economy)
  15. Temperament
  16. The New New (or The New Normal)
  17. Twitter
  18. Bánh mì
  19. Swarovski crystals
  20. Empathy
  21. New media, including but not limited to "Social Networking"
  22. Tablescape (Cut it out, Food Network!) (h/t pal Sexy Pixie)
  23. Closely watched yardstick
  24. Compromise/Bipartisan
  25. Emboldened
  26. Cougar
  27. Serious
  28. Walk back (As in "Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is walking back his comments about party boss Rush Limbaugh."
  29. Baby Bump
  30. Fascism
  31. Statement Jewelry
  32. Perfidious (This one is Steve Simels' fault.)
  33. Gang of [INSERT NUMBER OF SENATORS HERE]
  34. Socialism
  35. Digital
  36. Czar/Tsar
  37. Devastate/Devastated/Devastating
  38. Post-Racial

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