Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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

#2

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

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

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#3

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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.

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#4

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

What is the proper euphemism for death panel?

#5

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

Pulling the plug on Grandma.

#6

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

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

#7

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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.

#8

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

what about "articulate"?

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#9

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

"What is the proper euphemism for death panel?"

Insurance company

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#10

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

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#11

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

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

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#12

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

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

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#13

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

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

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

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#14

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#15

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

Now I want red velvet cake.

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re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

#17

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

It's already been fixed.

#18

re: Europe's Newest List of Banned Phrases

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

Excellent satire, madbrian!

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