Things we should do away with

[Killick]

WaPo does its annual "spring cleaning" list of things we should do away with. Their list includes engagement rings, smart phones, tipping, small talk, seniority-based firing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/opinions/outlook/spring-cleaning-2011/?hpid=z2

I'd add "corporate-think" and the U.S. Postal Service. You?

 

[imjustagirl]

Sentences and thread titles which end in prepositions.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Yeah, make it "Things we should do away with, loosers"

 

[imjustagirl]

"**** we shouldn't use anymore."

 

[Killick]

Sorry. I learned to end sentences with prepositions when I played for Nolan Richardson at Arkansas.

 

[imjustagirl]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

 

[User 1019]

Sorry. I learned to end sentences with prepositions when I played for Nolan Richardson at Central Arkansas.

 

[JakeandElwood]

The electoral college.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Central Arkansas College

 

[21]

1. Uniforms for baseball managers.
2. Paper receipts for purchases unless requested by customer.
3. Free phone books.
4. Fees for checked bags.
5. Perfume ads in magazines.
6. Craig Sager.

 

[3OctaveFart]

Grammar Nazis

 

[YankeeFan]

Sock Puppets.

 

[tripleoption34]

1. The Geico Caveman
2. The need for announcers to spot celebrities at Knicks and Lakers home games
3. Super Bowl pregame shows
4. The current health system
5. CEOs not being totally accountable for their companies failures and still getting paid sick $$$.

 

[YankeeFan]

-- Third announcer in the booth

-- Sidelines reporters

-- In game interviews with celebrities pimping their new movie/tv series

 

[Point of Order]

Uninformed lists of things we should do away with

 

[Mark McGwire]

Sorry. I learned to end sentences with prepositions when I played for Nolan Richardson at Arkansas.

Still rising when it cleared the fence.

 

[joe_schmoe]

paper money.
Tom Arnold
Our newspaper's TV section
Starbucks

 

[Bubbler]

The stupid, 1920s era way the AP sends college scores for football and basketball. Earth to AP, there's been nothing "Southwest" about Arkansas since 1992.

 

[SoCalDude]

Frank McCourt
Jamie McCourt
upper body injuries
lower body injuries
computer viruses

 

[dooley_womack1]

Any further discussions about where Pipen went to college.