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How to Stop Your Friends From Saying "That's What She Said"
Television show catchphrases are so easy to quote, and often get an easy laugh. Has any in recent memory been more durable, and yet so annoying, as The Office's "that's what she said"? This video shows one guy's extreme measures at getting his friend to stop using the phrase every chance he got.
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What's the Most Annoying Corporate Catch Phrase?
George Orwell once feared for the English language, noting that vague prose, wordiness, and clichés were killing the truth and our souls. Well, he never heard corporate speak! (Click here and here if you're dying for more.) He would have popped a vein if he could hear sentences like, "Moving forward, let's touch base about leveraging our chances at incentivising folks into purchasing these synergistically utilizable value-added, outside-the-box integrated solutions.
"Snake Charmer"...Or So They Say
I refuse to believe that no one saw this coming...but the risk in airing it was worth its weight in funny. In fact, I think this game show is my new guilty pleasure.
Rent-a-Friend Business Booming in Japan
One of my favorite episodes of How I Met Your Mother involves Barney and his hired "family." The eternal playboy (played by Neil Patrick Harris) wants his mother to think he has settled down, so he pays actors to play his wife and son, concocts an elaborate backstory with details including his son's "catch phrase," and plays along for years every time he visits his mother with his fake family in tow.
Well apparently, Japan has turned this sitcom plot into a reality.
Obama Speech Textbooks Are a Hit in Japan
Barack Obama's speech audience just got even larger. An English textbook, "The Speeches of Barack Obama," has sold more than 400,000 copies in two months, which is apparently a big hit for Japan where very few novels sell more than a million copies a year.
According to the book's publisher, presidents and presidential candidates "are excellent as listening tools to learn English, because their contents are good and their words are easy to catch."
Did Any Of These "Effects" Have Any Effect?
Leading up to the election, talk of the Bradley effect was all over the place — everyone was watching to see whether in the privacy of the voting booth, people would really pull the lever (or fill in the arrow) for the first black president. Then there was talk about the "Obama effect" — people voting for him because of his race rather than his qualifications. Since Barack Obama's decisive victory, neither theory has been thrown around too much, but there's a new effect in town.
Ask E. Jean For DearSugar: How Can I Catch Him?
Disclaimer: E. Jean is back this week with quite a doozy. I happen to think she's a wee bit harsh this time, but I thought it was only fair to let you chime in and tell us what you think of the advice she's offering Miss Mimi in Miami.
Relationship Protocol: A History of Cheating
While the majority of you may be skilled at keeping history right where it belongs, there are certainly some things from the past that once known, require a lingering thought or two, like children from a previous relationship, a traumatic incident in childhood, or cheating.
Though I don’t think the familiar catch phrase “once a cheater always a cheater” is necessarily true, if I found out that a significant other had cheated in a previous relationship then I would be concerned. But perhaps I’m just paranoid, so what do you think?
It's Not Just Reality — Swing Vote the Movie Comes to Theatres
Now that the Fourth of July has come and gone, I need a new summer event to look forward to. This might be it? The movie Swing Vote stars Kevin Costner (I wonder if it's been a long time since anyone's written that phrase.LOL Metal Heads
The lolcat pics have taken the internet by storm, but they're a little obvious, don't cha think? The formula: a cute misspelled catch phrase is added to a cute cat pic, which is then distributed widely on the web. But what if we were to "ironically" couple lol phrases with photos of death metal groups?
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