MB Civic

Ok, So this list represents just as some of the typical “Favorite Oxymoron Terms”
Jumbo Shrimp, Known Secret, Least Favorite, Live Recording,
Live Television, Long Shorts Low Fat, Misanthropic Philanthropist
Mobile Station, Etc, etc.

But there are other terms which are really starting to bother me such as

“Now then”.

You hear people say this at the beginning of a statement…”Now then Bobby, we want you to be a good boy”

Well, is it now or is it then??!!
This is starting to really bug me.

I am also amazed at the repeated use of the word ISSUE when clearly the meaning is PROBLEM.
Nation Public Radio is really pushing the envelope (whatever THAT means) on this Problematic Issue!!

When 2 warring factions in Syria are bashing each others brains out, it is not an “issue” it is a PROBLEM.

Ok enough of that!

It’s about all those sayings that people use on a daily basis which, to me, make no real sense!

And it may have started with this one:
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and doesn’t know where to find them. (well-if she lost them then it would make sense that she didn’t know where to find them!) but, we go blithely on (is that a split infinitive?)-accepting this stupidity!

Here are few more that make me crazy that I actually hear people say !!

• A free gift-(no shit-I never thought you had to PAY for a gift!)
• I rewrote it again.
• A distant light in the distance
• A series of icons will be used to differentiate different types of activities.
• close proximity (Ring a bell?)
• all of y’all (everyone in the south-Watch that horrible woman on the food channel sometime and count how many “y’alls” she overuses incorrectly to establish her southern-ness)
• I get a mental image in my mind.(really, I get a mental image in my butt!)
• hot water heater (get it?)
• and et cetera (come on be honest-how many times have you seen this type of nonsense?)
• it’s déjà vu all over again (and again and again and again….)
• Every single board member voted unanimously. (if you are person how actually has or works with a Board of Directors and you are using phrases like this-you should be out of a job)
• at the same time simultaneously (maybe in terms of quantum physics-maybe)
• one single solitary . . .
• open forum (can’t be)
• over three hundred plus times (what!)
• patchy fog in some places (are you shit’in me?)
• Prevent accidents before they happen. (if it’s an “ACCIDENT” how in the name of everything holy can you prevent for it from happening???)
• School Of Learning (as opposed to say a school of fish??!)
• sum total (of idiots)
• The free gift is yours to keep. (how many times have you hear this one on TV?)
• The problem is is that . . . (and this is not from stutterers)
• the reason is because . . .
• Raid kills bugs dead
• There might be a possibility.
• This doesn’t happen often. In fact, it’s rare.
• This is just a reminder to please remember to . .
• uniquely different (this kind of statement makes me uniquely indifferent!)
• Variable rates are subject to change. (your bank-the people who handle your money!-they talk like this!)
• We’ve had a history in the past . .
• When it’s done, and it’s completely finished . . .
• You must prepay before pumping.

This one actually slipped out of my own mouth one day when I was excited and talking too fast:

“Don’t even forget about it!”

Ok so we may all be somewhat guilty of these types of idiotic statements.

But look-we’re living a type of idiots delight…we all walk around accepting these inane statements as part of our everyday interaction.

This is the verbal intercourse we are involved with.

It is what separates us from the animals (apparently not by much) but it is all we have!

The ability to clearly communicate ideas, concepts, opinions, feelings and if we don’t protect the art we are doomed to say stupid things each and every day, like…………………………………..each and every day.

I give up