Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Portmaneau wordsthe media cramming together two words to demonstrate a single concept. Brangelina, Bennifer and all the rest. Vapid nonsense about people I have no interest in, and yet the media assumes I need a quick way to say it since I obviously think about it so much.
Plus does every scandal *have* to have a -gate after it? Climategate etc is just ridiculous. It was named after a hotel!
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:30,
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Mitchell and Webb did a sketch about how it should, using that logic, be called 'Watergategate'.(
Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:32,
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I was just trying to remember where I had heard thatsaw that there was a reply and just knew that someone would be mentioning it :-)
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:35,
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"So if there was a scandal involving water, what would that be called?""Watergate... oh."
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Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:37,
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