Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Politics and the English Language
a totally awesome piece de resistance:
"1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. "
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"1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. "
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
I hear what you're saying....
....but to be perfectly honest, I don't think we're singing from the same hymn sheet.
Most irritating cliche
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Most irritating cliche
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Friday, March 19, 2004
MSN Entertainment - News - Ex-'Apprentice' Star Stands by Race Claim
Omarosa was an awful potential Apprentice. By shifting the focus to her apparent disadvantages i.e. her race and sex (and of course the lifelong headaches that she will no doubt suffer as a result of being crushed by a falling ceiling) people react out of guilt , rather than focusing on her glaring incompetence. What the 'F-Bomb' is she being honoured for?? How to milk an injury for all its worth? How to alienate everyone you work with? Or how to be the consummate victim?
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Omarosa was an awful potential Apprentice. By shifting the focus to her apparent disadvantages i.e. her race and sex (and of course the lifelong headaches that she will no doubt suffer as a result of being crushed by a falling ceiling) people react out of guilt , rather than focusing on her glaring incompetence. What the 'F-Bomb' is she being honoured for?? How to milk an injury for all its worth? How to alienate everyone you work with? Or how to be the consummate victim?
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Thursday, March 18, 2004
A pretty persuasive argument...
Why You Should Touch My Balls - By Will RatBlood
"Maybe you work for a company that makes, lets say, land mines. Every minute spent at my house, with me, with my pants down, and your hand outstretched, is a minute you are not increasing the world's misery by manufacturing those sadistic devices. Think about what you are doing all day on a typical senseless work day. Shouldn't there be more to life than that?"
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Why You Should Touch My Balls - By Will RatBlood
"Maybe you work for a company that makes, lets say, land mines. Every minute spent at my house, with me, with my pants down, and your hand outstretched, is a minute you are not increasing the world's misery by manufacturing those sadistic devices. Think about what you are doing all day on a typical senseless work day. Shouldn't there be more to life than that?"
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
And WTF were they thinking when they cancelled Whose Line is it Anyway. It was a brilliant, funny show with the added bonus of not being about law enforcement, dysfunctional families or retarded thin people stuck on an island .... Surprising that Ryan Stiles is not more popular given his general hilariousness. Could it be a conspiracy against his oversized extremities?
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Ok, I recently saw an ad for the Special 'K' diet (or challenge as they refer to it). Apparently if you have two bowls of Special K a day ,as meals, along with a small dinner you'll lose a pant size (or whatever) in a month . Are they fucking serious? Of course you'll lose a pant size! If I replace the special K with two small bags of chips a day I'll lose a pant size as well. Along with a multivitamin, its about nutritionally equivalent. (ok. maybe not totally, but not that far off) Are we so stupid that we can't figure out that less calories and more exercises translates into less weight? Why do we focus on taking away from our diet. Equating healthy eating with eating less as opposed to replacing crap (i.e. processed food) with a vegetable. Thats not to say that there isn't good guidance out there. It just doesn't seem to be that popular. Somehow eating a diet consisting solely of sausages and sour cream is healthy? But vegetables aren't ok, coz they interfere with our fat burning process? How is this stuff not instinctive?
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Friday, March 12, 2004
Apparently Olivier Martinez finds models unattractive???? Which of course explains why he's dating the homely (but clearly brainy) Kylie Minogue.
IMDB gossip - last item
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IMDB gossip - last item
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Thursday, March 11, 2004
