It was what it was: Banned words and phrases

"Thank you."

When used after someone says something to affirm the other's opinion on a topic.

(It doesn't really bother me. I'm just trying to start trouble.)

 

Thank you, JD. I couldn't agree more.

 

Mustache > thread

 

Thank you too.

 

Thank you!

 

Metrics
(I have to admit that I using 'going foward' all the time.)

 

Others on my long-running list:

* Paradigm -- Stupid buzzword. Even the Navy fell in love with this one.
* Think outside the box -- as opposed to thinking inside the rhombus?
* Cowboy (or cowgirl) up -- No real cowboy has EVER said this. EVER!
* (insert team name) Nation -- Does your nation require a passport? If so, maybe you should forego the effort and stay in your own freaking country.
* Liberal media -- Can someone direct me to the "liberal" media I've been reading so much about? And something beyond just a web site address? I have NEVER worked for a "liberal" media outlet. EVER!
* Dialogue -- As in, "Let's facilitate a dialogue..." Pardon me while I slip a leash on my dialogue and take it out for a walk before it leaves an elephant-sized dump in the foyer.

 

man up

 

Any time any sports announcer, editor or writer talks about giving a team or a player "some love." Hey, what you do on your own time is your business. You'll notice that in the bleeped version of "Bull Durham" when Annie Savoy complains that she "can't get laid" that line gets changed to "can't get love."

 

"gritty" "high-motor" players who are "gym rats" and tend to be like "a coach out there". "tremendous athletes" and "great character" guys. And coaches who are "cleaning up the program" who might have an eye on the "coaching carousel."
That last metaphor is especially bad since I've never seen someone get on a carousel without expressing interest in riding a carousel, get on said carousel while denying it wanted to go on a carousel and then suing the ride operator after getting on the carousel demanding its entrance fee back because the ride didn't live up to its end of the contract.
The "coaching carousel" should be called the whorehouse where patrons sneak in and out discretely or get their significant others to increase their sex output in exchange for a promise not to visit said whorehouse.

 

Had I known that kind of argument would have worked, I might still be married. Or I might have had a whole lot more married sex.

 

"When you look at" or "When you talk about" on sports talk radio. It is what it is: extraneous.