OT: Hind Lick Maneuver

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004, Brian K. White wrote:
>Fairlight wrote:
>> Simon--er, no...it was Fairlight--said:
>>>
>>> Strangely, I never saw it cross the list.
>>
>> Not to like follow myself up or anything, but...nevermind.  I did get
>> it, and in the hectic timing of the last 2 days had postponed it to
>> read as a joke.  Only I didn't recognise the subject from Bob's
>> changed subject line.  So I did indeed get it...and got a chuckle out
>> of it.
>>
>> My mistake.  (As opposed to "my bad", which makes me cringe every
>> time I hear it.  I still want to know who started that -really-
>> annoying trend.  I wonder if I'm the only ex English major that wants
>> to slit my wrists every time I hear it.)  :)
>
>It bugs me too, only thing worse is people whos only job in the world is to
>talk clearly (news reporters) saying "nucular".

My pet peeve is seeing supposed educated people (e.g. NYT book reviewers)
saying a book is a ``good read''.

We won't go near things like PhD papers which seem to be written with the
philosophy, never use a one syllable word where a five syllable word is
available.

Bill
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