WHICH PHRASE ARE YOU SICK OF....?

Goddamn it. I grind my teeth and raise my fist at the TV, radio, computer screen, whenever I hear that one.

Ahhhh, I actually use that one quite a bit, because it masterfully blends together the more verbose, yet all incrementally different, phrases, "take it or leave it," "like it or lump it," "deal with it," "quit your bitching," "there's nothing you, I or anybody can do about it," and of course, "tough shit."

As well as, "They fuck you at the drive-through!! Etc., etc., etc."

 

Here's another to add to Crippler's list:

"I'm going to go out and give it 110%

I have never liked this statement. I understand what players/coaches are trying to say - go out, play hard, give it everything you've got, and then give a little more.

If you're able to give a little more, then your original effort wasn't 100%, now was it?

The most you can give is 100%. If you try and fill up a glass to 110% of capacity, all you do is make a mess on the floor.

 

As a member of the Sooner Nation, which invented the phrase ... you're welcome.

And I shall throw in "the next level." What is the next level anyway, coach? You just won your fifth fucking state championship in seven years.

 

- reaggravate
Aggravate means you did it again, therefore; "re" is pointless.

- walk-off
What ever happened to game-winning? I'm picking on the empire again, but I think it was the people at Bristol who coined this term.

 

any female not on stage singing an aria being ref'd to as a 'diva.'

 

One of them has to be "walk-off home run." I mean ... look, it's a game-winning homer. Sure, I'll admit, I'm old school about a lot of shit in the business. But for God's sakes? I think it was ESPN (the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, brought to you by Depends) that started this walk-off homer stuff. Of course .... I could be wrong but I just started hearing them use it.

Maybe AP changed their style and ESPN picked up the ball and ran with it.

Boo-yah!!!!

Boo-hoo.

 

This makes me laugh every single time.

 

A-farging-men. College I cover has just started the "nation" bullshit quite a bit. Played. Out.
Next!

 

Did you ever interview Spinal Tap?

 

Just win, baby -- Al Davis.

But then again, that won't be true of the 2006 Raiders.

 

One game? I think maybe they can handle that. : :

 

Thanks, Al