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"Awesome" and "ever" need to go as well...

http://www.time.com/time/natio...8599,1951248,00.html

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...The small Michigan university receives thousands of nominations over the course of the year before selecting the most flagrant offenders.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/natio...0.html#ixzz0ePJqsaun


...The complete 2010 list:

1. Shovel-ready
2. Transparent/Transparency
3. Czar
4. Tweet
5. App
6. Sexting
7. Friend as a verb
8. Teachable Moment
9. In These Economic Times ...
10. Stimulus
11. Toxic Assets
12. Too Big to Fail
13. Bromance
14. Chillaxin'
15. Obama as a prefix



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John

...it appeares no other thing
to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of worke is a man!

 
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Dude, Big Prolemo, I love Awesome. This list is Bogus except for #15. Can we find something that is Most Excellent to talk about?LOL-2!   :lol2:


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Thank you for reminding me, is there anything close to straight up stupid than people who respond to "Thank you," with "No problem?"

I think the intention is to get rid of wayyy overused words/phrases.

No problem (joking), thanks for the reply Cool   :cool:.


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John

...it appeares no other thing
to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of worke is a man!

 
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Looking at that list of threadbare words lead me to "The Top 10 of Everything." What a glut of trivia!
Seán
 
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