The Most Boring Words in the World

paradigm

Awesome, which may not be boring to all; but, it is certainly overused and is now worthless in its strength.

Recalcitrant, this is a word which bores me to bits.

And its first cousin, "amazing" (which also no longer is.)

There's the story about this cute, well-behaved adolescent girl (think Girlie Gracie) who was the apple of her dad's eye except for one things -- she'd pick up on the latest most-popular slang and use it to the point of driving her father crazy. At one point, everything she liked was 'awesome'; everything she didn't care for was 'gross.'

So her father called her aside one evening and said, "Y' know I'd really be happy if you could stop using two words you've been using lately. They bore me. One is 'awesome'; the other is 'gross.'"

And, bright-eyed as anything, the girl said, "Oh, f'sure, daddy. Which words are they?"

I'm bored.

My children were forbidden to speak those words. Of course, I didn't punish them if they did. But they got a talking to.

I've recently ranted on this, the matter of being bored. One of the reasons I develop discontent is re people saying how bored they are.

I thought that but you did the posting. I'm sorry that amazing became a fashion word and hope to see it fizzle to low level, but not sorry even a small bit to see the end of awesome.

Love it! The two "a" words are banned in my middle school newspaper class.

Yes, it came to that.

So, you know, my eyes glaze, you know, over whenever I, you know, hear you know once too often.

If you, you know, think I know, then why waste time telling me. AAARGH>

Reminds me of like , sure, it's like okay, but like I know ...

Man

You are right on, Boida. Know what I'm sayin'?

I make mine clean toilets if they say those words...or vacuum, or sort clothes. Something - so they won't be "bored".

balance

I posted this on the fridge for them to ponder:

What can infuriate me sometimes is when I tell someone something, and he/she says, "Is that right?"

Facryin' out loud, I just said so! Does he think I'm lying or something? "Is that right?" No, it's all wrong but it's accurate as I just told you. Makes my blood boil.

Relax, Andy.

Scary smart.

Tired of hearing it. And since when did smart become scary?

Last time I saw one of my granddaughters, she was stuck on 'awkward.' Said it to everything. Humerous at first -

Another one that always gets me is when someone starts a statement with the words, "I'll tell you the truth..." or "I'll be honest with you..."

I immediately suspect that this must be a generally dishonest and untrustworthy person. I mean, why would he emphasize that he's going to tell me the truth? Does he usually not tell the truth? Dumb expression.

But, that's exactly why I say it.

instigator

**** stirrer you. Love that.

Well I'll be

(Go and brush your teeth and wash your mouth mismi )