Now, our twice-yearly plea to the masses: PLEASE stop using the following cliches:
Game changing
Reach out to
Having said that
That having been said
At the end of the day
Begs the question
Needless to say
Be that as it may (should only be spoken by a mustachioed gentlemen wearing a monocle)
The powers that be
Zeitgeist
The devil is in the details
For all intents and purposes
Break the glass ceiling
Tenuous at best
In a nutshell
Perfect storm
Paradigm shift
More often than not
Wait, what?
Say what?
Ya think?
If I hear you say it, I will call you on it. This can also be a drinking game. Turn on any news channel and wait for an anchor or guest talking heads to say any of these phrases.
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August 7, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
“Immediately” in a news story: “An attorney for the committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.”
Drop “Immediately”. Nobody responded. You were ignored.
August 7, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Just read this in a news story this evening, and thought of you. (How sweet, huh?) “A federal court in Colorado issued a new arrest warrant involving the prison escape and Archuleta was arrested in the small town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Santa Fe. He is being represented by the Office of the Federal Public Defender, which did not immediately respond Friday to a phone message seeking comment on Archuleta’s behalf.
August 7, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Who knew?
August 7, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
bad optics
August 7, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
team player
grow the business
August 8, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
sooner rather than later
work smarter, not harder
August 9, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
non-starter
August 9, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
sustainable workplace
August 10, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
lean in
August 10, 2020 at QZVX
Brian Lord says:
Here’s a new one……defund the police
August 10, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Crime will increase, it will be condoned by city council, laws will be relaxed, and once each year, a day will be set aside for THE PURGE.
August 10, 2020 at QZVX
Brian Lord says:
Keep protesting and we’ll be the cover for the idiots that want to damage and steal. The businesses don’t care and the taxpayers don’t mind.
August 11, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
When did “button” become “but in”? I hear it from all the younger generation. It is ignorance on display.
August 13, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Let me be clear.
August 13, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Make no mistake
September 8, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
TV Commercials:
P*p* Murph pizza “Change the way you pizza.” When did pizza become a verb?
September 10, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Pizza as a verb originated at Pietro’s Pizza in Salem, about a mile from Oregon State Hospital. Pietro’s is where Randall Patrick McMurphy stopped for a few pies to go on the way to Depoe Bay for a boat ride with his fellow residents. After his shock treatment reward, R . P. began insisting his middle name was Pietro and his first was Renaldo, after Duncan Renaldo, “The Cisco Kid” of early TV. On the way to the restroom, he would shout “I hafta pizza!!!” R. P.’s heirs sold the rights to “Pizza as a Verb” to their cousin Patty Polly “Pee Pee” Murphy (not the senator) who had a city-wide chain of transparent pay toilets which she refitted as Pee Pee Murphy’s Pizza Parlors with the slogan, “See Pee Pee Pizza”.
(The scenes noted above are only available in the director’s cut.)
September 10, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Rated X – No one under 21 permitted without custodial parent, mean step-father, or estranged, somewhat deranged uncle. — Actually, that movie could be a modern day Disney production. Anything goes with Walt’s company. I assume R.P. is trans and black. It sounds like the makings of a grand broadway musical.
September 11, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Just sayin’
Sooner rather than later
Speak truth to power
Let me be clear – or sometimes “perfectly clear” to demonstrate sincerity
But you know this – used following an obvious lie
September 12, 2020 at QZVX
Steven Smith says:
“Truth to power” annoys the hell out of me. First, it sounds of new age babble. Then the truth is often backed up with opinion vs fact.
September 13, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Agreed. That one gets me. You are correct. It is something you might see on a protest sign.
September 12, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Writ large
Fraught
You know
Sort of
So
September 11, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
To be honest, anyone who uses the phrase, to be honest, is lying.
September 13, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Quite frankly
Let me say this about that
September 13, 2020 at QZVX
Steven L. Smith says:
How about “with all due respect” which usually means the opposite.
September 13, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
There was a radio commentary segment with that title, Let Me Say This About That. I think it ran on KJR in the 1960s.
September 13, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
There was a half hour commentary or public affairs program late Sunday night on KJR in the late fifties and early sixties hosted by Trudi Guberle. I once had a date with her niece Cicely Guberle. She wore blue contacts.
I think the names are spelled right . . .
September 18, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
We at QZVX.com have phased in a plan to become carbon neutral by Thanksgiving. In order to make our blog sustainable, we have begun using only recycled 1’s and 0’s.
September 18, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Television continues to promote the ‘victim mentality”, with KING 5’s Joyce Taylor’s race baiting segment called “Facing Race”.
“‘Facing Race,’ to me, is an opportunity for our community to have some really challenging, difficult, honest, candid conversations about what it means to be black, Hispanic, Asian, white, privileged in this country and in the Northwest. What that actually means,” Taylor said.
What they won’t show on these segments is— some basic truth. That is explained in this short sermon from a black preacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFr0qvpxKI
September 18, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Jason,
Have you made Joyce Taylor aware of this video? If so, how did she respond?
September 18, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
In fact, I have shared my thoughts with her. She does not respond. Joyce Taylor, “You can’t handle the truth.” I also sent her a link to this post: https://qzvx.com/2020/09/18/there-is-something-wrong-with-the-black-mans-mind/
September 18, 2020 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Another “Gag Me”: rock star, as in today’s New York Times:
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2nd Woman Appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Found Late-Life Rock Stardom”
September 18, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
She slept thru most sessions. Lifetime appointments are wrong.
September 21, 2020 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Storytelling
tell your story
….(Geez!)