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At the end of the day...
There are quite a few things that show up a LOT on this blog:
Nitwit, serial scrubbers, Rabbitania, "it's the writing, stupid", "setting her hair on fire".
So, what's the difference between a catch phrase and a cliche?
When does something go from cute and funny to overused and smelly?
Let me know what you think.
85 comments:
- otto said...
After about a year it quickly becomes tiresome at the very least.
- 9/21/2006
I hate "at the end of the day". Maybe I should have worked harder to avoid watching Big Brother, but it's not just Americans that like that one.
The more virulent the meme, the more annoying it is, and the annoyance level is what determins the difference between cliche and catch phrase.
- 9/21/2006
- kathryn magendie said...
Okay, I admit it - I can't stand cliches or catch-phrases in my writing and if one creeps in, I burn it off the page quickly, before it leaves a mark. If a cliche or catchphrase sneaks its way in, I would be embarrassed--its just a thang with me. However, if I had a character who used those things, and I used it in the dialogue, that would be okay, if I was trying to be funny hahaha (and even then, I an stomach only a little). Shoot, it's easier to write a cliche, much harder to say something original. But, when you are as brilliant as I am - why, oh, I'm much to modest to complete that statement.
Some things get on my nerves more than others - like what I call "Business Letter Catch Phrase/Cliche." And I'll be danged if I can remember any right now.
To me, they are one in the same - with perhaps a few nuances that may seperate them (did I just spell serperate correctly-it looks funny...), but the effect on me is the same...they don't belong in the (my) writing, and I 'm talking writing here, but I suppose in this day and age as time goes on in the real world of conversifying when they hook up like two cats on a fence when the rosy fingers of dawn appears over their heads which are white as snow, I suppose (sh)it happens.
- 9/21/2006
- Nick said...
I guess clichés are catch phrases that stood the test of time (hm, there's one right there) almost too well.
Clichés were unique and original once, but they just got overused.
- 9/21/2006
- Pepper Smith said...
I think they become cliche the moment people begin slotting them into place in sentences without giving thought to what they actually mean, or whether there are other ways of saying it that would work as well or better. In other words, when the phrases become language furniture rather than shiny works of art on the walls.
- 9/21/2006
- HawkOwl said...
It's a cliche as soon as someone else repeats it.
- 9/21/2006
- Calamity Jane said...
A cliche is both unimaginative and over-used. (Take the lyrics to any boy-band ballad, for example). Whenever I hear one, I want to beat my forehead against my desk. (To understand the feeling, say the words "Paris Hilton" and "That's Hot!"...)
A catch phrase becomes larger than life until it neatly sums up the essence of someone/something without further explanation. For example, when a tall, dark, handsome Brit says "Bond, James Bond," no one has to tell me I'm in for one sexy ride.
Fear not, Oh Snarktastic One, your catch phrases do the trick. You say "nitwit"; I think "Here lies a poor soul who, through ignorance, ineptitude, or sheer stupidity, has thoughtlessly taken on the indomitable Miss Snark." No one has to tell me to read on.
Now, if you'll excuse me. I need a margarita - shaken, not stirred.
- 9/21/2006
I think a catch phrase becomes tiresome when it's used to foster inclusiveness in a perceived "exclusive" club or clique or whatever. Mid-level executives heard Donald Trump use "At the end of the day..." on The Apprentice, and from that point on, every contestant on the show used it like a mantra.
On this blog, the legions will repeat (over and over again) anything that you say in order to gain your approval. If you said you were sexually attracted to Carrottop, I've no doubt that all of the posters to this blog would suddenly find his flaming locks irresistable. I might think George Clooney is a jackass, but would I say it here? Not on your life, unless I wanted to be black-balled from the cool table in the cafeteria. I'd never heard the term "clue gun" used before I started reading this blog, but wow, your followers can't say it enough. If they use nitwit, clue gun, and Clooney all in the same post, I've no doubt they wait with quivering bladder for your approval.
So, to sum it up, in a nutshell, at the end of the day it is what it is...
- 9/21/2006
I hate it when someone says they're "coming on board," or any variation thereof.
The usage has kind of fallen out of favor now, thank goodness. But for about ten years, all these nautical references to hiring, joining, whatever, were awful.
And so were the people they applied to.
- 9/21/2006
I am embarrassed to read reporters using cliches in their articles. Years ago, it was instructed to us budding writers to NEVER, EVER, use them. In fact, a list was issued as 'off limit'.
I do understand that the writers who incorporate the phrases into their articles, stories, etc., may or may not be intentional useage. But isn't that an editor's job to catch and strike them from every page? Or find a different writer?
With american lanuage changing, accepting more slang as universal, I can believe the over use of cliches. And, I can believe the writers have overlooked this rule.
I am glad someone actually tracks this usage, as it frees an agent's time to concentrate on more important details--like selling the author's work and pocketing a fistful of greenbacks.
- 9/21/2006
- Inkwolf said...
I write humor.
Cliché is vital to humor.
One key to absurdity is surprise. You have to convince the reader's subconscious that you are going in a particular direction, and then send 'em somewhere else. Using clichés is a good way to do this. It lulls your head into a dull, matter-of-fact frame of mind, and a sudden swerve into bizarro-land comes as a shock to the funny bone. For instance, Jan's little boy was as cute as a bug. A preying mantis, to be precise, or possibly a cockroach.
It works the same way in reverse, attaching clichés to relevant outré situations. Like, for instance, imagine a cartoon--it's a drawing of a huge packing crate, with chains wrapped aoround it and a big lock and signs saying 'Danger! Company Executives Enclosed! Do NOT open! Ever!' And coming from inside the crate is a tiny little word balloon--someone saying, "Gentlemen, I want you to think outside the box."
Funny? Well, depends on your sense of humor, among other things. (I find it funny because that catchphrase makes me gag, and I harbor deep suspicions of corporate types.) in any case, putting a cliché where it doesn't belong is an excellent form of bathos.
And some clichés are just funny on their own because they ARE clichés. "Impending doom" is my all-time favorite. (Actually, I find just about anything with 'doom' in it funny.) I mean, can you even imagine the phrase 'impending doom' being used in a serious manner?
When it comes to serious writing (which I don't really do) my personal preference is this: if you're going to do it, stick with old, tried-and-true clichés which I can read without blinking--get back on the horse, raining cats and dogs, yo mamma tried to boil water and burned it, singing like a lark and looking like the cat who swallowed the cream-covered canary and croaked from curiousity..
But catchphrases and new clichés, especially current, trendy (or recently-trendy) ones, unless they're being used as dialogue to show that a character is a moronic drone or hopelessly behind the times, are jarring and annoying.
- 9/21/2006
Back in the 80s, when I was a teenager trying to be cool and witty, I developed the bad habit of constantly injecting highly polished cliches, catch-phrases, and neologisms into my speech. Now I've got to police what I say rigorously to keep them out.
It's not that it's become unfashionable to speak that way, it's that I can't stand to sound like a cheesy imitation of Stephen Colbert. Friends seem to find me amusing when I am lazy and careless (and thus at my most "purple" and epigrammatic).
This is my acid test when I am writing correspondence: am I constructing a sentence or an argument around a nugget of triteness? If so, it goes. If such a word or phrase simply crops up in the course of developing my main thrust, well, so be it (unless I think of a better and less sound-bytable way to say it.)
I think one's own key phrases and words become annoying when they are repeated back by the socially inept. If that starts happening, it's almost certainly time to update. But that's the elder sibling in me speaking.
- 9/21/2006
- judy said...
I think that nitwit, serial scrubber, and the likes are your trademarks and you should register them before someone steals them. These words and phrases are firmly associated with your blog and they have their own meaning right here on these pages.
I think you should put them on a banner across your blog. It could say: Welcome to Rabbitania, home of Miss Snark, her nitwits, and a few serial scrubbers.
Then you could have a glossary of terms used on your blog (a sidebar on the right) and it might be required of nitwits that they read said glossary before they can ask a question so they are well versed in the language of this blog. That alone might diminish the nitwit population by half because once they got through that, they'd know that obviously they are not in Kansas.
You could also post an "Are YOU A Nitwit?" quiz in that same sidebar with a list of about ten questions which would immediately warn a visitor of his/her very high nitwit status and having been forewarned, they might not be so hostile when you call them a nitwit on these pages.
Just my thoughts. I know we were talking about cliches and catch phrases, but I tend to veer off subject as a rule.
- 9/21/2006
Once you hear everyone saying the same thing, UGH, it's cringe time.
"It is what it is."
And on this blog: "Dear Dog."
- 9/21/2006
I've been trying to explain this to a client for whom I edit and he simply isn't getting the concept. I'm printing this page and forcing him to read the comments.
- 9/21/2006
- M. G. Tarquini said...
When politicians hook into it, it's time to toss the phrase.
- 9/21/2006
- cudd said...
I believe your catch phrases will only become cliche when the world outside of your blog starts using them frequently enough that the immediate association to your blog is no longer there. As is, they simply reinforce your identity.
- 9/21/2006
Most of your writing here isn't cliched; it's full of catch-phrases--things that you, Miss Snark, are known for saying. They're not cliches because (no disrespect intended) they haven't become part of the general lexicon outside of this blog. And even if "serial scrubbers" does catch on writ large, you shouldn't worry because you invented it.
My own experience: I read Martin Amis's collection of criticism, "The War Against Cliche," and haven't written another cliche since.
- 9/21/2006
- Harry Connolly said...
It's a catchphrase as long as it refers back to a specific person, community of usage. "Where's the beef?" was a catchphrase. "Rabbitania" is like slang--it reinforces a sense of community and marks the person who says it as a snarkling (or as the over-Snark, of course).
- 9/21/2006
- blaironaleash said...
'Comfortable in my own skin'.
I'm pretty tolerant and aware of my own failings. But I do want to do extreme physical violence when I hear this spew-inducer.
- 9/21/2006
What's with all the snarkling-bashing going on? Geez, not very nice, folks. Miss Snark's catch phrases are repeated by the Snarklings as an inside joke shared among "friends," not a cliche. It's like a private language for a somewhat private club. NO NITWITS ALLOWED says the sign under the treehouse.
I think that a phrase is cliche when it passes into popular usage after the source is widely forgotten. Rabbitania is safe... for now.
- 9/21/2006
- Inkwolf said...
,b.cudd said...
"As is, they simply reinforce your identity.",b.
Yes, they're the 'running gags' of the blog. (I forgot to mention that repetition is also an excellent tool in humor.) :)
- 9/21/2006
- stephanie said...
"Thinking outside the box," drives me insane. IN. SANE.
Because what does that even mean anymore? It's also an interviewer's favorite question: Can you think outside of the box?
Um...yes? No? But what if I'm in the box and all you people are out? Then, wouldn't it be better if I was thinking in the box?
Not to mention, that everything I just wrote is probably something someone else wrote at one point.
I try to be an original writer, but sometimes I'll read over a page and there's a line like, "He burst through the door."
Burst? Oh, the humanity.
Oh, the humanity? What a cliche!
It's a sad, sick cycle.
- 9/21/2006
- pj said...
Someone correct me if I'm wrong (don't rush, now!), but I believe a cliche is figurative language which has lost its freshness due to overuse.
Of course a lot of our language is figurative without us even realizing it ("acid test" is a good example). But not all figurative language becomes cliche (of course), and not all catch phrases CAN become cliches, IMHO. "How you doin'" may be an overused catch phrase, but not a cliche.
Language is a dynamic, living, ever-marvelous thing.
- 9/21/2006
It's a cliche when the entire phrase is stored in the brain in the same way a single word is, and then regurgitated as grammatic unit. The result is often a malapropism, or at least an evident misunderstanding of the original meaning of the phrase.
This is demonstrated by the use of "concerted effort" when one means "strong effort" by a single individual. It's not that the writer doesn't know what "concerted" means (although obviously they don't); it's that the whole phrase "concerted effort" is stored in their head as a unit: "concertedeffort."
A cliche has become separated from its original use; when it was first used, it was probably a clever turn of phrase that related to the original situation in multiple ways. Now its slotted into gaps it wasn't cut for.
A catchphrase still has the memory of original application clinging to it. "Nitwit" on the blog of Miss Snark is a catchphrase. If millions of other bloggers start adopting it, it will become a cliche. (Which is not to say that Miss Snark invented the term--we know she didn't--but she adoped it for a particular use: the labeling of a blog correspondent who asks a question that makes them sound very stupid.)
Volume also has a lot to do with it. When the mass media start talking about Clue Guns, it will be time for Miss Snark to upgrade her weaponry.
- 9/21/2006
- delilah said...
Can a person, other than Paris Hilton, be a cliche?
It's my greatest fear.
- 9/21/2006
- Bernita said...
The media cliche that irritates me most is "tip of the iceberg."
- 9/21/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
Golly gee willikers, I'm so puzzled over this one that I could cry. The beats me how any sane person could use hackneyed and trite and clichéd phrases. I edit them out faster than you can say, "Bob's your uncle." (Actually, Bob is my uncle. I have too uncles named Bob.)
Before break of day, before the sun's glorious rays strike the clouds making them glow in cotton-candy-like splendor, before you can yawn twice, I red pencil them out. I've created a new paradigm of structured, cliché-free writing by my attention to detail and my American-like work ethic. (Except I hear the American work ethic has been shot all to hell.)
I never over use parentheses (or seldom do). And I will gladly show anyone who thinks to the contrary where the Bear went in the Buckwheat!
At the end of the day, when all's been said and done, when it's time for the total to be taken, the sums to be summed, and the assessments to be made, using clichés is just rude. It's just so Barbie!
My new approach to writing, which is, I'm sure, Bigger and Better, Whiter and Brighter, and, when measured by any yard-stick, simply superior, will guide me into all the ways of right thinking and publication. Editors will love it. I think you should join the crowd, get on board, let the wave of the future in writing become the captain of your life, and write like I do, with simple, direct sentences free from the mundane clichés of life.
- 9/21/2006
- Manic Mom said...
Where's the Beef was a catchphrase.
That lady's dead, right?
- 9/21/2006
Wouldn't it be just peachy if WORD would highlight catch-cliches in our documents? Maybe some Snarky reader can come up with a plug-in.
I'd buy it!
- 9/21/2006
This reminds me of an old Loudon Wainwright III song called "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" which contains the memorable verse:
"The joke's on me/you get the last laugh/I found out the hard way/you was my better half/and now, I'm the worse for the wear."
It all boils down to this-uh-do things boil down? I would've thought they fried down. Never mind.
- 9/21/2006
It is my opinion that a catchphrase becomes a cliche when it is overused, used indiscriminately and used incorrectly.
word verification: burpzsh (noun meaning drunken burp)
- 9/21/2006
Like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Or a whore in church (that's my personal favorite) Yep, serious as a judge on a rape case.
- 9/21/2006
- Eric said...
I consider it the lesser of two evils to make like and baby and head out, instead of staying indoors cooped up like a chicken.
With a wing and a prayer I hit the ground running, pushing the envelope and keeping my nose to the grinstone, drinking life to the leeds and taking no prisoners, as I make like a tree and leave so much scorched earth in my wake.
That having been said, like so many of you here, I hate cliches.
- 9/21/2006
- p.n. elrod said...
So long as Miss Snark and her Snarklings use those words/phrases they are cute and funny, for we are a cute and funny crew.
If it shows up on Letterman, Leno or (shudder) Oprah, it's cliche and smelly.
Let's not overthink this, for the weekend looms ahead.
:Sitting at the cool table with the cool kids and a TUB of gin (to share).:
- 9/21/2006
When it's used to the point where most people have heard it. Overused about sums it up.
- 9/21/2006
When does something go from cute and funny to overused and smelly?
Oh, Miss Snark, that's an easy one. It's cute and funny when I use it. It's overused and smelly (and cliche) when everybody else does.
So far, I think your special blog talk (add clue gun and gin pail) are fairly confined to your blog (and possibly a few of your snarklings' blogs), and so remain "fresh" and "sweet-scented." When they spread to other blogs and off the 'net, then they'll be trite.
jmho. (fresh and uncensored. now off to read what others have said)
- 9/21/2006
Somebody remind me what "serial scrubber" is, okay?
oh yeah, and Rabbitania?
nitwit snarkling
- 9/21/2006
Thank you Calamity Jane, anon after CJ, Inkwolf, and Judy for some interesting thoughts on the topic.
Thanks you Harry Connolly for planting the uber-Snark idea in my head!
And Sha'el, Princess of Pixies, thanks for making me laugh with a great example.
Miss Snark, thanks for the topic. Always something to think about and learn here.
- 9/21/2006
- Ray Goldensundrop said...
MS Word 2003 can check a document for cliches.
Click Tools
Click Options
Click Spelling & Grammar
Click Settings
Scroll down to Settings heading
Check Cliches, Colloquialisms, and Jargon
Haven't tried this yet, but it seems possible to do a user dictionary that contains your own set of cliches.
I have poked around the Web for a separate cliche checker, but haven't found one. Maybe most major word processors already have a checker imbedded.
As far as my own way of detecting them, if the mass media latches on, stay away!
Personal dislike: Having said that . . .
- 9/21/2006
- delilah said...
Sha'el, I hope you were kidding(I think you were) about the American work ethic being shot all to hell. Everyone I know, including, I'm guessing Miss Snark, works close to eighty hours almost every week. We are a nation of perpetually exhausted people. If we work any harder, we will collapse.
Doooooooog, how I need a break!!
- 9/21/2006
McBun is offended. Rabbitania is neither a catch phrase nor a cliche. It's a small green planet just past Pluto.
- 9/21/2006
- theraspberrycordial said...
Viktor Shklovsky's Theory of Defamiliarisation (not defamiliarization you silly americans) explains it all beautifully
- 9/21/2006
- Simon Haynes said...
When more than one person uses it. The original is funny, and everyone else is getting a cheap laugh through imitation.
References to oranges excepted, though. That's an in-joke (!), and those are cool.
When people use, reuse and abuse the same phrases they lose all their sparkly originality.
- 9/21/2006
When people start quoting you, you've arrived. But do you want to be a stationary object? Keep moving.
- 9/21/2006
Actually, I think of the cliche as the salt in the dish: fine if it's the invisible bond linking other ingredients; apalling if it's evident and overused.
And the catchphrase? The pepper. (You knew that, didn't you?) Use lightly, or the merit of the dish is buried in it.
-Just Me
- 9/21/2006
- BJ Nemeth said...
I completely agree with Pepper Smith's beautifully written comment above:
"I think they become cliche the moment people begin slotting them into place in sentences without giving thought to what they actually mean ... when the phrases become language furniture rather than shiny works of art on the walls."
I am also a news reporter, and I find that cliches are a result of rushed writing. I'll occasionally find cliches in my own articles as I speed up the writing process on a deadline, but if I have any extra time I'll go back and edit them out. (My writing always improves after replacing cliches.)
- 9/21/2006
It's a cliche as soon as someone else repeats it.
- 9/21/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
delilah said...
Sha'el, I hope you were kidding(I think you were) about the American work ethic being shot all to hell. Everyone I know, including, I'm guessing Miss Snark, works close to eighty hours almost every week. We are a nation of perpetually exhausted people. If we work any harder, we will collapse.
Well, it allowed me to include the phrase "shot all to hell," didn't it?
The entire post was meant as a joke. It's one cliché after another. I'm happy you figured out it was supposed to be funny.
Dang it, no one understands my humour. Maybe I'm just not too funny. I'm going to find a closet, hide in it, and pout!
- 9/21/2006
- Gargi said...
Hey Judy, agree with your comment whole-heartedly! 'Welcome to Rabbitania, home of Miss Snark, her nitwits, and a few serial scrubbers' sounds perfect as a banner for the blog, and the idea of a Nitwit Quiz is positively brilliant! But the aim of the quiz should be to drive away the nitwits rather than reduce their hostility!!
But then I shouldn't be so harsh. After all, I might have been a nitwit once too!
- 9/21/2006
I think one of the main differences between a catchphrase and a cliche is that a catchphrase is constantly being played with, updated, transformed, while a cliche has solidified.
A few days ago we were messing about with the 'clue gun' phrase - clue cannon, clue trebuchet, clueapult... The phrase is still 'alive', linguistically, so it's a catchphrase. When it solidifies to the point where people say it without even hearing it, and therefore it never occurs to them to mess around with it, then it's died: it's a cliche.
- 9/21/2006
- Corn Dog said...
I used to horse laugh every time my Gramma called someone a dope. She was not prone to do so, but used the term sparingly until her death at 99. My fav was when the electric company chased her down for a missing bill. She wrote the company a letter about the man who called her and penned, "This man is a dope." I laugh the same way when Miss Snark calls someone a nitwit. It all depends on the delivery and the deliverer whether catch phrases become smelly. Some become trademarks, freshly sealed in their little tm's.
Catch phrases sour quickly at companys. They have no shelf life. "Outside the box" has already been mentioned. No one can deliver anything there amusing or worth saving. At work I thought about homicide if anyone mentioned "on the same page" or "do lunch." I worked for the bank for many years whose motto was "Catch the next stage." Of course when anyone got fired or died, we always told everyone else, he had caught the next stage.
- 9/21/2006
- WitLiz Today said...
I could listen to cliche's and catch phrases till buffalos roam the hallways of Trump Plaza.
Sure, I do have major short term memory problems, but using cliche's and catch phrases properly is now an art form.
Very few people get away with using cliche's. MS is the exception, because her words flow like lava down a volcano melting everything in its path.
Her words are unstoppable, and you better get the hell out of the way. So used in this context, cliches work to perfection because it does slow down that lava flow a bit,giving you some time to get the hell out of dodge!
Frankly, we could all use that highly developed skill she has; witty repartee, combined with a staccato like voice. It's clearly an asset.
Of course another asset, which Calamity Jane so astutely pointed out was the speed at which a Margarita can dull the senses, making cliche's seem positively literary.
- 9/21/2006
- Jude Hardin said...
"At the end of the day..." is mentioned as a cliche in Stephen King's ON WRITING, published in 2000.
It's kind of sad that people are still using it, six years later.
- 9/21/2006
IMO, it's a cliche when everyone's using it. Hence, "He knew no more," is a cliche. However, "dear dog" and "nitwit of the day" are catch phrases, not cliches, because only Miss Snark (and perhaps her Snarklings) use them. They would become cliche if books everywhere started using those lines (i.e. "Dear dog, what is that man doing on the roof? He sure looks like the nitwit of the day.")
- 9/22/2006
Uh, gargi, don't be so sure you aren't one still...
- 9/22/2006
In case you're at a loss for something to write about :)
I hear beginning writers all the time say they're saving their rejects so that after they get that big book deal they can mail all the agents that rejected them and rub it in their faces. But, does anyone ever actually attempt this?
- 9/22/2006
- Rei said...
I'm surprised that nobody else commented on your post. You "hit the nail on the head". ;)
One of my favorite examples of turning a cliche on its head was in the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner. Patton Oswalt concluded his grilling with something to the effect of:
"My friends and I are trying to settle a bet." He reaches down and pulls out a paper bag. "Could you act your way out of this for me?"
- 9/22/2006
Sometimes I would RATHER here a cliché or a catchphrase than prose that just tries so hard to be artful, but veers off into the hilarious...
such as: "the stars bristled in the sky [i]like white flecks on black enameled roasting pan[/i].
-Janet Fitch, in Paint It Black
That sentence really sucks.
- 9/22/2006
- writtenwyrdd said...
I like Calamity Jane's explanation "A catch phrase becomes larger than life until it neatly sums up the essence of someone/something without further explanation."
But to add to that, a catch phrase is fresh enough it annoys at least one generation. As soon as the elder set (that includes middle-aged me) are using the terms, it goes into the realm of cliche.
Amusingly enough, all the "drug culture" terms from the 60s and 70s like 'cool', 'hey man', 'jonesing', and 'dude' are still being used and I get funny looks when California speak pops out of my mouth here in Maine.
- 9/22/2006
MS Word 2003 can check a document for cliches.
Click Tools
Click Options
Click Spelling & Grammar
Click Settings
Scroll down to Settings heading
Check Cliches, Colloquialisms, and Jargon
Haven't tried this yet, but it seems possible to do a user dictionary that contains your own set of cliches.
I have poked around the Web for a separate cliche checker, but haven't found one. Maybe most major word processors already have a checker imbedded.
Hmm, I'll have to brace myself and try that.
Coincidentally, I stumbled across a commercial checker a couple of days ago, thought 'huh, that looks interesting', then forgot all about it. Haven't bought it so I can't vouch for whether it's any good.
- 9/22/2006
- Southern Writer said...
In my humble opinion, a phrase becomes so twenty minutes ago when it has reached The Tipping Point. And m.g. tarquini hit the nail on the head. (Did I really say that? My bad.) When it's picked up by the politicians, it's time to distance yourself from it. The same goes if you hear your parents say it. Grandmother Snark is, of course, excluded from this rule.
- 9/22/2006
I might think George Clooney is a jackass, but would I say it here? Not on your life, unless I wanted to be black-balled from the cool table in the cafeteria. I'd never heard the term "clue gun" used before I started reading this blog, but wow, your followers can't say it enough. If they use nitwit, clue gun, and Clooney all in the same post, I've no doubt they wait with quivering bladder for your approval.
You forgot the proverbial "pail of gin".
- 9/22/2006
At the end of the day does it really matter?
- 9/22/2006
- jude calvert-toulmin said...
Thanks for the favourite tool link, by the way, Snark,Warrior Princess :)
Anything to do with tools interests me and that link is very useful.
- 9/22/2006
When hearing it makes you cringe. -JTC
- 9/22/2006
No, no, no Sha'el. I totally get your humor - you're my favorite commentor. I was just too exhausted last night for anything to sink in. Sigh.
- 9/22/2006
I still don't understand what serial scrubbers are. I did a search on the blog, and the Snark FAQ provides no explanation.
Someone shoot me with the clue gun, please?
- 9/22/2006
Isn't it funny that "outside of the box" is a cliche. That's got enough contradiction for a brain fart. I almost used "shrouded in mystery" but opted for "veiled in incertainty" instead. I just started freelancing for a mag so this was a good time to read this post. Thanks, MS.
- 9/22/2006
- ~Nancy said...
"Horror smash" was a new one on me.
However, the one cliche that sticks in my mind as most irksome is, "They wanted closure." (Or throw in "she" or "he" or "the surgeon".)
How many times do I have to hear that or read about it before I throw up? Can't newspeople come up with something better...or simpler?
Not that I can think of anything. But still. ;-)
- 9/22/2006
- Dave Kuzminski said...
And what does all this suggest to me?
Next time Miss Snark chooses to run the Crapometer, why not make it fun by making it limited to short humor, say 250 words, with extra points for every cliche that the writer manages to insert intelligently so that it's even funnier? Or perhaps to queries meant to be snarky or weird, replete with, dare I say it, cliches? ;)
- 9/22/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
Dear Delilah,
You are way too kind. Don't worry a bit. Pixies have to pout, or we're not happy. One pout a day for health. Two pouts if you have more than ten sisters. (Pixies make a lot of babies.)No pouting if you're seeking your mate. It's not the pixie way.
If some human woman gets between you and your chosen, you are allowed to bite, but not fatally.
Biting is excused during the Life Ritual and during pregnancy when The Hunt comes upon us.
So ... what else can I tell you about pixie culture? Did I ever tell you about the time that ....
Ouch! My sisters won't let me tell that! Later maybe.
- 9/22/2006
Yanno what? I didn't know "At the end of the day" was a cliche. I'd only heard it once or twice.
I might be because my mind is a sieve.
- 9/22/2006
- MichaelPH said...
I like the idea of inventing new catch phrases for my characters. Phrases which will become exclusive to my story. The reader feels he/she is part of the lexicon and therefore feels part of the story.
- 9/22/2006
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- Kanani said...
I think of a catchphrase as something that could be used to describe a situation in a satirical way. Example: SNAFU. It's a great catchphrase and it wouldn't bother me that much. They can also be used as a tic by a character, or better yet, the character can develop their own catchphrases.
A cliché is a way to describe something or even a plot or a reaction that has been seen many many times.
But still, both can be annoying when overused.
Avoiding them? Well, it helps to study poety. Some of the freshest writing and description of imagery may be found there.
- 9/22/2006
- Dave Kuzminski said...
'Tis said, by those who wrote Atlanta Nights that it takes an expert to write truly bad work. This might be a golden opportunity for some of us to get it out of our system, say about Thanksgiving or Christmas when there's some slack time. Who knows? One of us might create some new cliches which all can then say came from here and they blame Miss Snark for unleashing us upon the world, not that we could actually make it any worse. ;)
Okay, so I'm promoting the idea. You know the saying, promote early and often. :)
- 9/22/2006
- Mark said...
Cliches are what everyone says for fear of saying something original. It's easy, and sure sign of an unoriginal thinker. Agents and publishers don't want that, and neither does the reading public. It's a real deal killer.
- 9/22/2006
Hey Sha'el - the pouting thing is really funny. I have two plants who are very competitive with one another. One, named after me, is Delilah the Hibiscus. When she is in bloom -- as she is right now -- her little sister, Lucy the Lemon tree, turns all her leaves upside in a fit of jealous rage. (She is such a silly little thing.) Because of her behavior, I have nicknamed her "The Pouty Princess." Perhaps you two are related.
- 9/22/2006
- Inkwolf said...
MichaelPH said...
I like the idea of inventing new catch phrases for my characters. Phrases which will become exclusive to my story. The reader feels he/she is part of the lexicon and therefore feels part of the story.
That can be overdone, though. I have often felt that I was going to hunt down George R. R. Martin and give him a good, swift kick if he used the words 'half a hundred' one more frickin' time. FIFTY!!! FIFTY!!! CAN'T YOUR BLASTED CHARACTERS COUNT TO FIFTY??! DO THEY REALLY HAVE TO GO TO A HUNDRED AND SUBTRACT, LIKE AN ARTILLERY MARKSMAN CLOSING IN ON A TARGET? (cough) Even as a child, I would get twitchy when Albert Payson Terhune trotted out one of his favorite stock phrases yet once more.
And giving a character their own catchphrases can work in children's books (I used to love how this old lady in one of my second-grade readers always said "Oh, my stars!") but I can't help dreading the idea of an actual novel where each person appears with their own sound bite.
Ooh! Word verifications = eoiks.
"Eoiks and awaaaay!"
- 9/22/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
Dear Delilah,
Some Pixies may be related to Goats. The Irish and Greeks both have goat-pixies. But, we're not related to plants in anyway that I'm aware. One of the twins can talk to plants.
I learned my siter could talk to plants just before we left the Sierra Nevada forrest for the Home Forest. From Dragon Sword comes this:
"No, she surely isn't. Not near as pretty! I'll carry them in my pocket if that's ok Sha? And you two -- What are you bringing?" He looked first at Sha'ail who'd been standing with her hands behind her back. She held her hand out. In it was the most pathetic tiny pine cone I've ever seen. Papa raised his eyebrow.
"Sha'ail, there are much bigger and nicer pine cones where we're going," Momma said.
My sister looked so sad. "But I like this one. Please? Can I take it?"
"Why that one? We will find others." Papa was trying to be reassuring I think. Sometimes parents just do not understand.
"I talk to this one," Sha'ail said. She wouldn't look up, but kept her eyes on the pathetic thing in her hand.
Papa chuckled. "Does it talk back?" He picked her up and kissed her very tenderly.
"No Papa, but it listens to everything I say."
That's as close to being related to plants as pixies come.
- 9/22/2006
Oh Sha'el, I would love it if you could meet Lucy, the Pouty Princess. I'm sure you two would get along famously, and with a pixie befriending her, perhaps she would burst into bloom and stop pouting.
Her littl sister smothered in Lemon blossoms would make Delilah quite jealous I'm sure.
- 9/23/2006
SNAFU is not exactly a catchphrase, it's an acronym. Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. I think it has outgrown its status as a cliche, though, because I see it so seldom.
When the Gulf War ground campaign began, so many international writers were calling Saddam Hussein's troops "the elite Republican Guard" that our copy desk starting capitalizing it because we thought it was part of their name.
- 9/25/2006
You know this is exactly right!
- 9/25/2006
- Kathy said...
I'm probably late for this, but I generally try hard not to use cliches or catchphrases. At least the ones that I am aware of. I write fantasy so I liked to avoid anything too "earthy" or "modern." I have a tendency to try to make up my own.
- 9/30/2006


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When Crystal and I did meet we had collectively lived in 13 countries. I alone had stayed on the beach in Virginia, in a flat in Paris, in a retirement village in Miami, a condo in Florida, a castle in England, a studio in Brooklyn, and a shack in Japan. She had seen life from an apartment in the Ukraine, a room in Israel, the oceanfront in North Carolina, a rowhouse in New Jersey, and a number of points in between.
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Such a blast! I really love watching rallying on tv but to do it in real life, what a top experience - loved the car, adrenaline and rallying
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So much fun, the leaders were so helpful and I had a great time
I wanted to try something daring but not too scary and gorge walking - a lot of skill and determination, the instructors were fab!!!
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I love chocolate - so when I heard about this I had to go! Making my own luxury chocolate was unforgettable, tasted so good!!!
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Expansion of Greenford High School proposed in Ealing
Published: Saturday, 2nd of November 2019.
Ealing residents are being asked for their views on plans to expand Greenford High School to accommodate 25 per cent more pupils. Ealing Council has proposed expanding the secondary school in Lady Margaret Road from 1,200 pupils to 1,500 by 2022, to meet a growing demand
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Everyone who enters the Ealing Half Marathon this month will be helping the homeless of Ealing. Ealing Half Marathon CIC, who organise the award-winning event, have promised to make a donation of andpound;5 to Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter for every race entry received throughout December.
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The point isn't that we necessarily have to abandon phrases like "hip hip hooray" and "no can do." But understanding their racist origins helps us move beyond them.
In the original song, she wants to go home, he says no, and then he spikes her drink. Blogger Dara Laine replaces the uncomfortable Christmas refrain with the female-friendly "Baby, It's Consent Inside."
A singing flash mob honors the passing of Nelson Mandela, who helped establish South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation process after apartheid.
At this pay-it-forward restaurant, everyone's meal is paid for by previous guests—out of generosity. Karma Kitchen's founder on how kindness became contagious
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Coordination without discussion? Socio-technical congruence and Stigmergy in Free and Open Source Software projects. In 2nd International Workshop on Socio-Technical Congruence, ICSE. presented at the 19 May, Vancouver, Canada. Retrieved from http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhncd3jd_405fzt842gv. (2009). Coordination without discussion? Socio-technical congruence.pdf (114.35 KB)
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More about me: This is of course the first of many posts to come, so I'll be brief. The I am a huge Washington Nationals fan (and partial season ticket holder) whose son fell in love with the Presidents Race from that day in July, 2006 when big-headed Teddy first came up short. I selected CafePress to create the store because the products are of very high quality (I ordered them myself before putting them up for sale). More info about me and the store are at the
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Team Badger Coalition
Team Badger is a coalition of national, local and grass roots animal and wildlife welfare organisations representing millions of compassionate citizens. We reject the government's policy of badger culling as unsound, unscientific and unacceptable. We believe the most effective and legitimate way to oppose the shooting of badgers is through peaceful and legal protest supported by reasoned argument, scientific facts and legal challenge. We believe that the long-term control of tuberculosis in cattle can be achieved by the comprehensive application of a range of measures without resorting to the culling of wildlife.


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The basic idea is a map of Western Europe and Great Britain, in which the only playable territories are the traditional Celtic 7 nations. Until the 2nd century BC The Celts lived across the whole of central and western Europe. Around the reign of Julius Caeser the Romans began to push the Celts out of mainland Europe, until they were limited to the fringes of western Europe and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Later in AD times the Normans invaded great Britain and pushed the Celts out of the heart of the Island. The only areas left with a Celtic cultural presence became known as the Celtic 7 Nations. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, Brittany, Cornwall, and Galicia. Now a days the only real "Nation" amongst them is Ireland, however the Celtic languages in those regions are still spoken and modern nationalist movements are reviving the culture in some areas.
Territories: currently 33
Bonuses: 7, with 3 territories that belong to no bonus (Celtic sea, Giants Causeway, and Stonehenge)
Neutral territories (5):Isle of Mann (2), Powys (2), Celtic Sea (1), Stonehenge (3), Ynysek sllyan (2)
The Celtic sea diminishes by one each turn
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This blog post comes from a C2E thread of a similar name.
Originally Posted by RichardS
This thread is both sad and hilarious at the same time.
In no way shape or form do I think that the omission of Alberta from the list of provinces was an intentional conspiracy theory on behalf of the Prime Minister or anybody else in his caucus or staff. Mistakes are made in speeches all the time. It's how you handle the fallout that is crucial.
But the bigger problem here is, an allegedly, most likely
I've heard that more often than not over the past decade and a half. People threatening to sue me, this forum, or each other. Libel is something that is a very hot topic in the online world.
I've kept this forum "anonymous" for several reasons. The biggest one is to protect online identities from being stalked by the anonymous hoard should the identified person post something that the hoard hates. Also, it protects C2E to a point.
C2E has tried to keep the
I'm trying to see if the blog functionality here works well. I thought I'd try this with the topic that keeps rearing its ugly head. The amount of discord that happens in political threads, and how people who will be violently offended when their leader is insulted can be so violently insulting of the other person's leader and find it okay.
I had a report post today from a user who was upset that Prime Minister Trudeau was being referred to in a manner the poster thought was rather


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