I saw this online tonight and had to post it. What other words or phrases do you think should be added?
Lake Superior State's 2009 list of banished words
Associated Press - December 30, 2008 2:04 PM ET
Lake Superior State University's 2009 list of banished words:
green
carbon footprint or carbon offsetting
maverick
first dude
bailout
Wall Street/Main Street
monkey
3 (Emoticon for 'heart' used in text messages and e-mail.)
icon or iconic
game changer
staycation
desperate search
not so much
winner of 5 nominations
it's that time of year again
***Here are my personal ones that I would like to add:
reflection
engage in diaglogue
And this has to be done away with..............the word "random." I am tired of hearing someone say "he's (or she's) so random." What exactly does that mean?
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Early Loser of the Week
Loser of the Week: Chip Saltsman
What's worse? The fact this guy did this or the lack of outrage by some of his colleagues? Have these guys turned the clock back to the volatile 60s? Yes, this is almost 2009...for most of us, that is.
'Magic Negro' flap might help Saltsman
Andy Barr Andy Barr – Tue Dec 30, 4:31 am ET
The controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chair candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it.
Four days after news broke that the former Tennessee GOP chairman had sent a CD that included a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” to the RNC members he is courting, some of those officials are rallying around the embattled Saltsman, with a few questioning whether the national media and his opponents are piling on.
“When I heard about the story I had to figure out what was going on for myself,” said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the Maine Republican Party. “When I found out what this was about I had to ask, ‘boy, what’s the big deal here?’ because there wasn’t any.”
Alabama Republican committeeman Paul Reynolds said the fact the Saltsman sent him a CD with the song on it “didn’t bother me one bit.”
“Chip probably could have thought it through a bit more, but he was doing everyone a favor by giving us a gift,” he said. “This is just people looking for something to make an issue of.”
What's worse? The fact this guy did this or the lack of outrage by some of his colleagues? Have these guys turned the clock back to the volatile 60s? Yes, this is almost 2009...for most of us, that is.
'Magic Negro' flap might help Saltsman
Andy Barr Andy Barr – Tue Dec 30, 4:31 am ET
The controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chair candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it.
Four days after news broke that the former Tennessee GOP chairman had sent a CD that included a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” to the RNC members he is courting, some of those officials are rallying around the embattled Saltsman, with a few questioning whether the national media and his opponents are piling on.
“When I heard about the story I had to figure out what was going on for myself,” said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the Maine Republican Party. “When I found out what this was about I had to ask, ‘boy, what’s the big deal here?’ because there wasn’t any.”
Alabama Republican committeeman Paul Reynolds said the fact the Saltsman sent him a CD with the song on it “didn’t bother me one bit.”
“Chip probably could have thought it through a bit more, but he was doing everyone a favor by giving us a gift,” he said. “This is just people looking for something to make an issue of.”
Brad v. Jennifer
I saw this on Yahoo! News this morning and have to wonder if the press will stop linking Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt. Their romance went by the wayside a long time ago. Why does the press think we still want to see these two together at some point because there seems to be an endless amount of stories linking the two when there's not really a connection.
Thankfully, we still don't see Justin Timberlake versus Britney Spears stories.
Jennifer Aniston Beats Brad Pitt at Box Office
By Us Magazine
December 29, 2008,
7:32 am PST
Us Magazine
Jennifer Aniston wins this round! Her puppy flick, Marley & Me, not only beat ex Brad Pitt's Curious Case of Benjamin Button on its Christmas opening day (earning $14.6 million vs. $11.8 million), but it also took in more cash over the weekend. Look back at Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's happier times. Marley & Me topped the box office by raking in an additional $37 million this weekend, while Button came in third place behind Bedtime Stories with $27 million. See adorable photos of Aniston and Owen Wilson filming Marley & Me.Tom Cruse's Nazi drama, Valkyrie, made $21.5 million, putting it in fourth spot, while Jim Carrey's Yes Man came in fifth with $16.5 million.
Thankfully, we still don't see Justin Timberlake versus Britney Spears stories.
Jennifer Aniston Beats Brad Pitt at Box Office
By Us Magazine
December 29, 2008,
7:32 am PST
Us Magazine
Jennifer Aniston wins this round! Her puppy flick, Marley & Me, not only beat ex Brad Pitt's Curious Case of Benjamin Button on its Christmas opening day (earning $14.6 million vs. $11.8 million), but it also took in more cash over the weekend. Look back at Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's happier times. Marley & Me topped the box office by raking in an additional $37 million this weekend, while Button came in third place behind Bedtime Stories with $27 million. See adorable photos of Aniston and Owen Wilson filming Marley & Me.Tom Cruse's Nazi drama, Valkyrie, made $21.5 million, putting it in fourth spot, while Jim Carrey's Yes Man came in fifth with $16.5 million.
Monday, December 29, 2008
The Browns mess
The Cleveland Browns are starting over.................again.
It's hard to believe that a team hasn't scored an offensive touchdown in six games! That's a long time!
This kind of turmoil in football-mad town makes for great talk radio as I have been flipping back and forth between 1100 AM out of Cleveland and 850 AM, also out of Cleveland.
This weekend has produced two memorable quotes in football:
(As of today) Former Detroit Lions football coach Rod Marinelli said after his team made history by going winless, "We deserve it." He was man enough to admit his team sucked. That takes guts when you are that bad.
Browns GM Phil Savage prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers game, when asked about his future with the Browns, said something along the lines of "I'll be smiling at the start of the game and I'll be smiling when I leave the game." Phil was fired shortly after the Browns lost 31-0 to Pittsburgh.
It's hard to believe that a team hasn't scored an offensive touchdown in six games! That's a long time!
This kind of turmoil in football-mad town makes for great talk radio as I have been flipping back and forth between 1100 AM out of Cleveland and 850 AM, also out of Cleveland.
This weekend has produced two memorable quotes in football:
(As of today) Former Detroit Lions football coach Rod Marinelli said after his team made history by going winless, "We deserve it." He was man enough to admit his team sucked. That takes guts when you are that bad.
Browns GM Phil Savage prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers game, when asked about his future with the Browns, said something along the lines of "I'll be smiling at the start of the game and I'll be smiling when I leave the game." Phil was fired shortly after the Browns lost 31-0 to Pittsburgh.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Winner for the Week
Winner of the Week: Jesus ChristIt's amazing what Jesus Christ can do and what He did for us. His pain makes a lot of what we go through on a daily basis very trivial. We look to Him for answers to a lot of our toughest questions. It's also important to be thankful to Him for blessings that we have now.
On a side note...
A few years ago, at a school I was working at, we had a Turkish instructor visiting for a couple months. He talked about how respectful and beautiful the churches are in Turkey. This man spoke very good English but had trouble a with a few words. "Jesus Christ" was one of them. The instructor would often reference these religious frescos in Turkey which are basically wall paintings. However, when he would talk about them, he would say something like, "The frescos are so beautiful...especially the ones with Cheez Christ." Some of us staff members would look at each other with look like, "Did he just say "Cheese"?
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Winners and Losers of the Week
Winners of the Week: The surgical team at the Cleveland Clinic.
Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals in Cleveland are always ranked among the best in the world. This week, CC proved it by doing the most extensive facial transplant. The surgery went for around 20 hours. To prep, I read where doctors were practicing taking facial tissue from cadavers and practicing. Practice is one thing but to do that over the length of almost a day is amazing. Props to those in the medical field.
Loser of the Week: Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich
With hair as bad as his reputation, Blago is having a hard time dodging charges that he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. He has been criticized for being very casual with the media in response to the charges. Wishing reporters a "Merry Christmas" as they try to get to the bottom of serious allegations doesn't help the cause.
Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals in Cleveland are always ranked among the best in the world. This week, CC proved it by doing the most extensive facial transplant. The surgery went for around 20 hours. To prep, I read where doctors were practicing taking facial tissue from cadavers and practicing. Practice is one thing but to do that over the length of almost a day is amazing. Props to those in the medical field.
Loser of the Week: Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich
With hair as bad as his reputation, Blago is having a hard time dodging charges that he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. He has been criticized for being very casual with the media in response to the charges. Wishing reporters a "Merry Christmas" as they try to get to the bottom of serious allegations doesn't help the cause.
More EXTREMELY useless news
I am not making this stuff up. This is actually in the news.
Wildlife experts ponder gender of Santa's reindeer
By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer Betsy Blaney, Associated Press Writer – Fri Dec 19, 5:38 am ET
LUBBOCK, Texas – There may be a perfectly good reason why Santa doesn't get lost on his annual Christmas globetrot: His flying reindeer just might be female and don't mind stopping for directions.
The gender of Rudolph and his or her sleigh-hauling friends — the subject of goofy Internet chatter every year around this time — is now being pondered by renowned wildlife experts at Texas A&M University.
"Santa's reindeers were really females, most likely," said Alice Blue-McLendon, a veterinary medicine professor specializing in deer who cites the depictions of Santa's helpers with antlers as the primary evidence. It turns out reindeer grow antlers regardless of gender, and most bulls typically shed their fuzzy protrusions before Christmas.
But Santa's sleigh helpers might also be castrated males, known as steers, said Greg Finstad, who manages the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Young steers finish shedding their antlers in February and March, just as non-expecting females do. Bulls generally lose theirs before Christmas, while expectant mothers retain their antlers until calves are birthed in the spring. This allows them to protect food resources through harsh weather and to have enough for developing fetuses, he said.
Wildlife experts ponder gender of Santa's reindeer
By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer Betsy Blaney, Associated Press Writer – Fri Dec 19, 5:38 am ET
LUBBOCK, Texas – There may be a perfectly good reason why Santa doesn't get lost on his annual Christmas globetrot: His flying reindeer just might be female and don't mind stopping for directions.
The gender of Rudolph and his or her sleigh-hauling friends — the subject of goofy Internet chatter every year around this time — is now being pondered by renowned wildlife experts at Texas A&M University.
"Santa's reindeers were really females, most likely," said Alice Blue-McLendon, a veterinary medicine professor specializing in deer who cites the depictions of Santa's helpers with antlers as the primary evidence. It turns out reindeer grow antlers regardless of gender, and most bulls typically shed their fuzzy protrusions before Christmas.
But Santa's sleigh helpers might also be castrated males, known as steers, said Greg Finstad, who manages the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Young steers finish shedding their antlers in February and March, just as non-expecting females do. Bulls generally lose theirs before Christmas, while expectant mothers retain their antlers until calves are birthed in the spring. This allows them to protect food resources through harsh weather and to have enough for developing fetuses, he said.
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