yeh evrybody knows thhat cliches ovarusd but no one evar mentoins it.
The dear is in the garage on this one.
I throw things at the radio whenever I hear about somebody 'introducing a raft of new measures'... I don't remember hearing that particular phrase until about three years ago, and now it is ubiquitous.
It makes the speaker sound as if they're describing something which has been hastily and inexpertly cobbled together from whatever ill matching bits and pieces they had to hand, and which will ship water within minutes and sink shortly afterwards.
Now I think of it, the 'raft' phrase is frequently used by politicians to describe their latest piece of tabloid-sating kneejerk legislation or policy, and is therefore perhaps much more appropriate than they intend it to be.
How about "fit for purpose". Or is that just home office speak (also known as doublespeak)?
I presume it's this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pi...res/
5344770.stm (look at picture 6)
that brought up this sudden concern with elephants, though Banksy's fits rather better into the living-room environment.
Elephants in the room? Hmm. I know the Council normally only deals with stuff like Cockroaches, Rats and Wasps nests, but has anyone thought about calling Pest Control?
Regards
Bill
I think this is all a storm in a teacup. Having said that, after much public consultation,we have decided to introduce a raft of new measures to deal with the yobbish and antisocial behaviour of the said pachyderm.A new piece of legislation : the P.A.S.B.O. wil be introduced. Firm measures must be taken. At the end of the day history will show that we are right to take this step.
I think cliches are a double egded sword. As we shall see in the fullness of time.
Although not a cliche can we also ban: "any time soon" an annoying Americanism that's crept in.
and why is everything 'robust' these days?
Thankfully the expression "moment in time" seems to be dying out; or maybe I've become desensitised to it.
At the end of the day does it signify ?
Elephant? WTH? (I must get out more)
The word (not phrase) that I am tired of seeing everywhere is "innocent".
"Innocent" is not a synonym for "Not Guilty"
The alternate phrase over here is "the 800 lb gorilla in the room." I suspect you'd get tired of that even faster.
After this historic watershed moment, lets turn the corner and draw a line under it.
Excuse me, I have to take a trunk call...
I'm still trying to parse "proboscideicide." Are you proposing to crucify Slawkenbergius?
Wikipedia says about elephants:
"Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia".
So I took Proboscidea, chipped it down to the singular, and tacked on a latin -cide just to prove that I have an O level in the language of Clavdivs.
That's it really.
And here I thought that word was just a White Elephant.
Tristram,
You are a clever sausage, damn you. Shall we leave the punters to look it up in Wikipedia for themselves, just as I have had to do?
You think? I'll bet a bottle of Guinness that the quantities of the last "e" in "Proboscidea" and the first "e" in "deicide" are different. Which, as any Oxford don can tell you, spoils the whole joke.
Petrikov, you sure know how to hurt a guy, don't you?
Hi,
I thoroughly sympathise with this, and go one step further in requesting that the libel-twaddle blogs, without whom this exact type of expression would be instantly defunct, delete their good selves from the face of the earth.
fj
Hang on, if you shoot that elephant, there's be a smoking gun with which to deal. Just join the dots and wake up and smell the coffee.
What is it about No Clichés that you don't understand?
Yeurgh! They have finally got to me!
Bastards!
Stiff upper lip, old fellow.
BBC Ceefax have an annoying habit of using the word 'slammed' in their news reports.
Blair slammed by Unions
Brown slammed by Blair
Cameron slams tax plan
Er, can we get back to using proper adjectives?
Wig and Gown,
Or even verbs?
Sorry about the pedantry.
Er yes, verbs. That's it. Can't edit one's post, post stupidity.
Me fail English, that's unpossible.... (Ralph Wigum)
http://thelawwestofealingbroadwa...er-
verbing.html
Tell you what, Bystander; if we kill enough of them elephants, we'll have enough tusks to build you an ivory tower.
I just thank my Lares and Penates that the numen no longer requires the constant use of "gutted" in all circumstances.
Am I still allowed to use 'Airplane in the Kitchen', then?
If it bothers you that much, why not shoot it in your pajamas?
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