Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 10:27pm

whiter than white

gentleman's agreement (at video stores you now have to ask for "that Gregory Peck movie")

black mark

right-hand man


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Updated On: 8/24/09 at 10:27 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 10:29pm

Gee, they should lighten up, huh goth? Obamacare deathpanel!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 10:35pm

Reminds me of The Apprentice when Omarosa said something insulting to Ereka and she responded, "Well, that's just the pot calling the kettle black." Omarosa said, "What was that racist thing you just said to me?!" Really? She also accused Ereka of calling her the N word, yet there was no video or audio of the incident.

[After Eight]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 11:12pm

What is the proper euphemism for death panel?

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 11:16pm

Pulling the plug on Grandma.

[After Eight]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 11:22pm

Neither in word nor deed does either of these phrases appeal to me.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 3:52am

That's as bad as the county commissioner in Texas last year who insisted that the terms "black hole," "angel food cake," and "devil's food cake" are all racially insensitive.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 4:58am

what about "articulate"?

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 8:10am

"What is the proper euphemism for death panel?"

Insurance company

[Weez]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 8:57am

Does anyone even have black pots and kettles anymore? Ours are more a sort of steely grey. O_o

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 9:01am

Our kettle isn't black, and she never uses disparaging terms to others.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 9:18am

My pot looks nothing yours, but it's not racist either.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 9:21am

Vivian: "Maude, I think they're smoking pan!"

Maude: (Bea Arthur pause) "That's POT, Vivian!!"

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 11:06am

"That's as bad as the county commissioner in Texas last year who insisted that the terms "black hole," "angel food cake," and "devil's food cake" are all racially insensitive."

That was just insanity. Everyone knows devils are red rather than black.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 11:13am

Now I want red velvet cake.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 11:29am

"For example, in the context of being above suspicion, the phrase 'whiter than white' is often used. Purer than pure or cleaner than clean are alternatives which do not infer that anything other than white should be regarded with suspicion."

I'd suggest they focus on the meaning of the word "infer" before branching out into other areas of language policing.
Updated On: 8/25/09 at 11:29 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 11:46am

It's already been fixed.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/25/09 at 9:00pm

Excellent satire, madbrian!