Banished Word List Archive – Lake Superior State University***This year, in a gesture of humanitarian relief, the 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.

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance.

The silence is deafening.***PERFECT STORM – “Overused by the pundits on evening TV shows to mean just about any coincidence.” – Lynn Allen, Warren, Michigan.“I read that ‘Ontario is a perfect storm,’ in reference to a report on pollution levels in the Great Lakes. Ontario is the name of one of the lakes and a Canadian province. This guy would have me believe it’s a hurricane. It’s time for ‘perfect storm’ to get rained out.” – Bob Smith, De. Witt, Michigan.“Hands off book titles as cheap descriptors!” – David Hollis, Hamilton, New York.

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WEBINAR – A seminar on the web about any number of topics.“Ouch! It hurts my brain. It should be crushed immediately before it spreads.” – Carol, Lams, Michigan.“Yet another non- word trying to worm its way into the English language due to the Internet.

It belongs in the same school of non- thought that brought us e- anything and i- anything.” – Scott Lassiter, Houston, Texas. WATERBOARDING – “Let’s banish ‘waterboarding’ to the beach, where it belongs with boogie boards and surfboards.” – Patrick K. Egan, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. ORGANIC – Overused and misused to describe not only food, but computer products or human behavior, and often used when describing something as “natural,” says Crystal Giordano of Brooklyn, New York. Another advertising gimmick to make things sound better than they really are, according to Rick De.

Van of Willoughby, Ohio, who said he has heard claims such as “My business is organic,” and computers having “organic software.”“Things have gone too far when they begin marketing T- shirts as organic.” – Michelle Fitzpatrick, St. Petersburg, Florida.“‘Organic’ is used to describe everything, from shampoo to meat. Banishment! Improperly used!” – Susan Clark, Bristol, Maine.“The possibility of a food item being inorganic, i. John Gomila, New Orleans, Louisiana.“You see the word ‘organic’ written on everything from cereal to dog food.” – Michael, Sacramento, California.“I’m tired of health food stores selling products that they say are organic. All the food we eat is organic!” – Chad Jacobson, Park Falls, Wisconsin.

WORDSMITH/WORDSMITHING – “I’ve never read anything created by a wordsmith – or via wordsmithing – that was pleasant to read.” – Emily Kissane, St. Paul, Minnesota. AUTHOR/AUTHORED – “In one of former TV commentator Edwin Newman’s books, he wonders if it would be correct to say that someone ‘paintered’ a picture?” – Dorothy Betzweiser, Cincinnati, Ohio. POST 9/1. 1 – “‘Our post- 9/1. AD, BC, or Y2. K, time references. You’d think the United States didn’t have jet fighters, nuclear bombs, and secret agents, let alone electricity, ‘pre- 9/1.

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Chazz Miner, Midland, Michigan. SURGE – “‘Surge’ has become a reference to a military build- up. Give me the old days, when it referenced storms and electrical power.” – Michael F. Raczko, Swanton, Ohio.“Do I even have to say it? I can’t be the first one to nominate it…put me in line. From Iraq to Wall Street to the weather forecast – ‘surge’ really ought to recede.” – Mike Lara, Colorado.“This word came out in the context of increasing the number of troops in Iraq. Can be used to explain the expansion of many things (I have a surge in my waist) and it’s use will grow out of control…The new Chevy Surge, just experience the roominess!” – Eric Mc.

Millan, Mentor, Ohio. GIVE BACK – “This oleaginous phrase is an emergency submission to the 2. The notion has arisen that as one’s life progresses, one accumulates a sort of deficit balance with society which must be neutralized by charitable works or financial outlays. Are one’s daily transactions throughout life a form of theft?” – Richard Ong, Carthage, Missouri.“Various media have been featuring a large number of people who ‘just want to give back.’ Give back to whom? For what?” – Curtis Cooper, Hazel Park, Michigan.‘BLANK’ is the new ‘BLANK’ or ‘X’ is the new ‘Y’ – In spite of statements to the contrary, ‘Cold is (NOT) the new hot,’ nor is ’7. The idea behind such comparisons was originally good, but we’ve all watched them spiral out of reasonable uses into ludicrous ones and it’s now time to banish them from use. Or, to phrase it another way, ‘Originally clever advertising is now the new absurdity!'” – Lawrence Mickel, Coventry, Connecticut.“Believed to have come into use in the 1.

The comparisons have become absurd.” – Geoff Steinhart, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.“‘Orange is the new black.’ ’5. Chocolate is the new sex.’ ‘Sex is the new chocolate.’ ‘Fallacy is the new truth.’ – Patrick Dillon, East Lansing, Michigan. BLACK FRIDAY – “The day after Thanksgiving that retailers use to keep themselves out of the ‘red’ for the year. And then followed by “Cyber- Monday.”) This is counter to the start of the Great Depression’s use of the term ‘Black Tuesday,’ which signaled the crash of the stock market that sent the economy into a tailspin. Carl Marschner, Melvindale, Michigan. BACK IN THE DAY – “Back in the day, we used ‘back- in- the- day’ to mean something really historical.

Now you hear ridiculous statements such as ‘Back in the day, people used Blackberries without Blue Tooth.'” – Liz Jameson, Tallahassee, Florida.“This one might’ve already made the list back in the day, which was a Wednesday, I think.” – Tim Bradley, Los Angeles, California. RANDOM – Popular with teenagers in many places.“Over- used and usually out of context, i. You are so random!’ Really? Random is supposed to mean ‘by chance.’ So what I said was by chance, and not by choice?” – Gabriel Brandel, Farmington Hills, Michigan.“Outrageous mis- and overuse, mostly by teenagers, i. This random guy, singing this random song…It was so random.’ Grrrrr.” – Leigh, Duncan, Galway, Ireland.“Overuse on a massive scale by my fellow youth. Every event, activity and person can be ‘sooo random’ as of late.

Banish it before I go vigilante.” – Ben Martin, Adelaide, South Australia.“How can a person be random?” – Emma Halpin, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. SWEET – “Too many sweets will make you sick. It became popular with the advent of the television show ‘South Park’ and by rights should have died of natural causes, but the term continues to cling to life. It is annoying when young children use it and have no idea why, but it really sounds stupid coming from the mouths of adults.

Please kill this particular use of an otherwise fine word.” – Wayne Braver, Manistique, Michigan“Youth lingo overuse, similar to ‘awesome.’ I became sick of this one immediately.” – Gordon Johnson, Minneapolis, Minnesota. DECIMATE – Word- watchers have been calling for the annihilation of this one for several years.“Used today in reference to widespread destruction or devastation. If you will not banish this word, I ask that its use be ‘decimated’ (reduced by one- tenth).” – Allan Dregseth, Fargo, North Dakota.“I nominate ‘decimate’ as it applies to Man’s and Nature’s destructive fury and the outcome of sporting contests. Decimate simply means a 1. It may have derived notoriety because the ancient Romans used decimation as a technique for prisoner of war population reduction or an incentive for under- performing battle units.

A group of 1. 0 would be assembled and lots drawn. The nine losers would win and the winner would die at the hands of the losers – a variation on the instant lottery game. Perhaps ‘creamed’ or ’emulsified’ should be substituted. Mark Dobias, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.“The word is so overused and misused, people use it when they should be saying ‘annihilate.’ It’s so bad that now there are two definitions, the real one and the one that has taken over like a weed. Dane, Flowery Branch, Georgia.“‘Decimate’ has been turned upside down.

The Pope Must Die (1. I recently hired a VHS of the Comic Strip feature film "The Pope Must Die" (starring Robbie Coltrane), which unapologetically presents the premise that the Vatican is run by dolts and scheming money- grabbing opportunists, some of whom are backed by the mafia. The plot revolves around the consequences of a clerical error which caused a totally incorruptible and highly compassionate priest to be elected as Pope.

When the Pope attempts to give all the Vatican's riches to help the poor, his fate is sealed. This film may be a comedy but it's easy to suspect that there are large elements of truthinvolved. That being said - there is no attempt by the film- makers to portray the rank and file clergy as anything less than good people doing their charitable best in the world. I am amazed at the convincing (to my untravelled eye) locations that were secured by the producers for the interior shots. Paul Bartel turns in one of his best performances - on par with Robbie Coltrane.

It's not a perfect script or plot, but the errors are few and this film has plenty of heart.