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I think Obama needs to let this phrase “die” because it’s starting to become the butt of jokes. He’s overusing it and that diminishes its effectiveness when he delivers what overall are some amazing speeches.

In reference to anyone who doesn’t sing or play an instrument on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans (women throwing their panties, optional).

Happy new year, Aaron

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Okay, now that I got that off my chest I’d just like to say that I am totally onboard with the untimely and abrupt demise of the phrase Cloud Computing. Have you ever gone to ZDNet’s web page? That’s all they ever talk about, and I just want to strangle some of their editors for it. However, such a course of action may prove to be unproductive in that I might incur a fine for freeing the rest of the world from Cloud Computing’s fan base. On the other hand you can’t actually kill a word or phrase thus you might as well just kill the people that run it into the ground. Cure the disease instead of treating the symptoms.

Have a nice day and peace be with you.

Like you said, there are no zombies and never will be. And how would you know how to survive a zombie Apocalypse anyway? Ever survived a zombie apacalyspe? where do you get your knowledge and experience? Movies? psh. the whole concept of zombies can die as far as I’m concerned

“At this point in time.” WHAT is wrong with the word “now?” I’ll even accept “right now.”

Everyone today is a “social media guru.” The market is diluted. I don’t need anymore guru’s guiding me toward the light of the digital age.

“Transparency” is an important concept. Not an important word.

I’m also siding with Mr. Tipp – “Twilight” must go. Now. “Terrorists” and “war” have needed to be abolished for a long time. The words themselves will endure, unfortunately, so long as we, as a species, continue to practice terror and war.

“Bob’s your uncle.” He may be, you don’t know him, and I want you to stop pointing out that fact.

“The world’s your oyster.” Who want’s to live in an oyster? They coat irritants in saliva and we call them gems. SALIVA?

I could go on. We would need some true revolutionary tactics to bring the horror to an end. Every year new buzz words emerge (anyone remember “rad” or am I really dating myself?) and every year we devise new lists of words that must die. They do. Eventually. We need to be vigilant to prevent their resurrection. And no, that’s not a zombie reference.

Wave is cool as well. The potential applications are endless. Its a combination of email, IM, social-networking “walls”, live streams, etc. Whether Google’s particular incarnation of it rules the World or not, its still a killer concept that if nothing else will drive enhanced features from the root applications its attempting to consolidate and replace.

And lastly, Dude… DUDE… Duuuuud… dude has been used for decades and will likely never die. If you are bored with it, just add something before and/or after it to bring it new life. Like “Dude, man…” or “Man, dude…”. Long live “dude”! :-)

ok. maybe I shouldn’t argue so hard on the side of defending the buzzword social proof. perhaps the term does suck. im biased. maybe we should just use “validation.” It’s more technical. =)

‘Dude’has become particularly grating as of late. We need a replacement for that as well.

How about ‘immediate vicinity’. This phrase should fizzle out too. As if vicinity is not immediate enough.

And as for words that actually need to die…Apart from everything else mentioned here, I think “may or may not” is long overdue. I’m not sure how widespread the use of this phrase is elsewhere but it sure gets used often in my office. It’s nonsense. Why state the only two possibilities in the world?

The word transparency, as Kevin Kline once said, makes my ass twitch. It is so laden with faux-importance that it instantly gives me dry heaves. When people start talking about their transparency, red flags, alerting me to the mad cache of closet-dwelling skeletons, start flying up everywhere. It’s like when people tell me how pious/religious they are. My general reaction to such things is to lock up my jewelery. But hey … I’m a cynic.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go & relax with a nice glass of Twine.

Just sayin (which, by the way, needs to be put out of its misery more than just about anything else).

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go find a Tworkscrew, so I can have a glass of Twine.

Just sayin (which is something else that needs to be put out of its misery).

It’s kind of like how McDonald’s used to include “Mc” in the name of each of their menu items…but in this case, it’s much more out of control and much more annoying.

Man, I wasn’t even sure you wrote this post. No author byline?

“douche” must go
… and “pimp” while we’re at it -

as well as adding “tastic” to the end of other words, ie: “frat-tastic”

okay, i’ll stop pimpin’my list.

Ouch, I’m using “real-time web” in a blog post now

Hmm. I’m open to bribes.