Wednesday, April 01, 2009

I am banning some words

Morsel
Moist
Crusted
Replete
Gusset
Soiled
Thinly (when used with "sliced")
Glistening
Goitre
Membrane
Writings*
Pert
Freshly (...milled, squeezed, made, baked, etc)
Crusty (as in, "crusty white loaf")

Any more for any more? I will simply build this list until it contains all the horrid words ever created, and this is the truth.


* Which reminds me - I really do urge you, if you haven't already, to visit this, the most self-satisfied blog in the world. The advertising industry already has a dodgy enough reputation without chaps like this making it worse. And don't forget to try and leave a comment - you almost certainly won't be able to !

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

"moist". the word makes me want to listen to Dashboard Confessional and cut myself. i'm in, sister...

katie said...

Can I add 'feisty'?

tea and cake said...

'nice' - means absolutely nothing, nadda, nowt. Well done you - I think it is especially relevant when thinking about the menu for your wedding breakfast, and what's been done to the food.

Dan B said...

Hosiery.

Welsh Girl said...

I really hate COUCH. really, really hate it.

Megan said...

Makes me want to write a lovely sonnet about some advertising person with a moist, glistening goitre. Couldn't you have worked the list a bit more for rhyme and meter?

Also: Classy. Hate it.

Icy Mt. said...

What with your upcoming nuptials (you want to ban that one once I'm done), I am concerned that your fascination with one Scott Goodson, cunt and gigantic wanker, might be unhealthy.

That said, when did a Marketing Agency ever "add real, tangible value to that culture" or any culture? Sure, "where's the beef?" has become a cultural icon but has it really added "real, tangible value"?

The Princess said...

Gungy must go. Yuck.

NON-WORKINGMONKEY said...

In: classy and hosiery; upcoming nuptials.

The others aren't disgusting enough to make it, although I do agree that 'couch' is pretty awful.

Re. SG: I don't know the man personally, but the blog alone is enough to encourage open-mouthed horror and/or fascination. I can't answer the other questions. I work in advertising and am stupid.

jonathan said...

In a similar vein to 'writings' can I make a case for 'ramblings', especially when used in the banner heading of a blog. Although perhaps it has its uses as a surefire indicator that what follows underneath is rarely worth reading.

Also are we allowed to make pleas for clemency for words awaiting execution? The word 'glistening;, whenever I've come across it, has struck me as a perfectly reasonable and inoffensive fellow. Although perhaps you've had traumatic experiences with it that we shouldn't pry into. Also if 'couch' is to go, can we please have definitive guidance on whether to resort to 'sofa' or 'settee'??

punxxi said...

omfg! whatta twat he is!
hirsute is a banable word, I think.

Z said...

Crispy and pan-fried, please.

WrathofDawn said...

If 'couch' is to be banned, may I suggest the majestic 'chesterfield?' It's what we called couches in my place of birth and I fear the word may soon fall into disuse.

Can't think of any words I don't like at the moment.

Hmmm...

Waffle said...

Pad

Welsh Girl said...

Definitively 'sofa', though I agree that Chesterfield needs a preservation order on it!

Waffle said...

Methinks

monkeymother said...

How about 'sliver' - particularly when the first syllable rhymes with 'sly'?

pack-your-trunks said...

pouch. especially when you put moist and pouch together. moist pouch.

Anonymous said...

Must. As in "it's a must for all visitors".

Anonymous said...

"the media revolution underway is undoing all the IKEA furniture and redoing it in totally new forms. And added to this is the economic cold shower that is hosing it all down the drain - both of which are turning what we used to know upside down."

Hahahaha. Brilliant. Well done.

Word to ban: Leverage. As in "We can leverage this to our advantage."

Unknown said...

I don't like "drilling down." If I have to explain I'm not coming to your hand binding or whatever it now is.

That man, that you introduced me to there, what does he do for fun? I suspect it's something predictably Advertising and that may allow for the total shagwank he's written all over my screen. Part of me feels violated and the another bit is just deeply depressed and humiliated with shame for him.

Did you know Stuart Lee's got funny again NWM?

xx

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