Monday, June 23, 2008

Things that annoy me, part one: annoying phrases

Today Theresa and I made a list of phrases/words that annoy us. Here are the results, in no particular order:

  1. Apples to apples
  2. Just in the nick of time
  3. Don't worry, be happy
  4. Turn that frown upside down!
  5. Petunia (I don’t know why, I hate this word)
  6. To thine ownself be true
  7. The road less traveled
  8. At the end of the day...
  9. The fact of the matter is....
  10. Cut to the chase
  11. Think outside the box
  12. My bad
  13. Start from square one
  14. She’s good people
  15. Whazzzuuuupp
  16. Pick your brain
  17. On the same page
  18. Keep it real
  19. Various sports analogies, i.e. "Give it 110%" or "right out of the gate"
  20. Cut from the same cloth

Phrases that I am kind of into right now:

  1. Snerk!
  2. Jiminy Cricket!
  3. That's the bees knees
  4. What the hey!
  5. Holy crap balls!
  6. What the f***, a$$hole! (okay, I know this isn't really a "catchphrase", but I say it all the time while I am driving)

More to come, as we think of them.

Edited to add: O, added "Holy crap balls" just for you.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I feel like I'm one of the "in" crowd...

O.

Anonymous said...

"Things That Annoy Me, PART ONE." Emphasis on the part one. Is this going to be a 23-part series?

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness you are blogging again....it's about time. Although these last 2 posts were from the summer....ahem.