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""Thrown Under the Bus" is Thrown Under the Bus. Ouch."

2008
Jan
1

(as seen on MetaFilter)

“This year, in a gesture of humanitarian relief, the (Lake Superior State University Banished Words) committee restores “truthiness,” banned on last year’s list, to formal use. This comes after comedians and late-night hosts were thrown under the bus and rendered speechless by a nationwide professional writers’ strike. The silence is deafening.”

Of course, “(thrown) under the bus“* is on this year’s Banished List, along with “perfect storm“, “webinar“*, “waterboarding“, “post-9/11“, “wordsmith“, “back in the day“, “surge“, “x is the new y“, “give back” and other seemingly “random” words and phrases.

*One of the requirements for a Banished Word or Phrase is that it has been used as a title for a Blogspot or Typepad blog.

Yes, we’ve done this before. Consider it a tradition or a bad habit.

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Posted by the foop on January 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am, more or less.

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