h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was always told that anyone who begins a sentence with "To be perfectly honest....." is about to tell a whopping great lie!!

"... of biblical proportions," is a daft bit of hyperbole from the press.

"refer back" - nearly always redundant or incorrect as in "Shipman's case was refered back to the court of appeal" as he never has been there he can't go back

"this moment in time" - what's wrong with now,

"Who's the daddy?" WHY!!!!!???? What does it mean, death to those who say it

"Making it large" - Nuff said

"Nuff Said"

and again, anything with the word "football" in it

CH

"Stress"
"nineleven"
"hopefully" when used to mean "I hope"
"anticipate" when used to mean "expect"

As a canadian your post made me chuckle. It annoys you that we are polite?

Irregardless

Caper Plip,

Oh, Candide is a novel by Voltaire which satirises Leibniz's general philosophy of "everything always happens for the best." It's quite amusing, and not heavy reading. It's also been described as a book that everybody should read (before this became a cliché for every bestseller) - though I can't say it was particualrly mindblowing.

When I was temping in hr it was "People Services" which always made me giggle (we can service people in double the time for twice the price!).

All Acronyms that are hard to say ever (currently working with the words HEFCE UCAS (is that ucc-ass or You-Cass)

"try to relax"
"try" implies making an effort
"relax" implies a lack of effort

"From the get-go" - sorry, do you just mean from the start or from the beginning?

"enough-already!" - urgh.

"that's a good segway" - hmmm? "I was just going to talk about that" sounds much better.

"do you like your eggs over easy?"

No I'd like them over here

Spike, I don't know if you are male or female but I think you really hit a nerve there with any woman that has ever been to a gynaecologist or had a smear test done. "Try to relax" is the most ridiculous thing to say yet they always say it! You just want to shout "You try relaxing in this situation!!!" but you just keep quiet and keep on "trying" to relax - usually failing miserably.

The word "geezer"

Oh but Xanatic, geezer's so useful - it can mean cowboy or top bloke as in 'diamond geezer'.

Also the word "diamond geezer"

It just sounds really stupid Just use guy.

But Xan,

You're a diamond geezer
You're a guy

One is a qualitative assessment of a person's character, the other is stating the bleeding obvious...

Instead of geezer, just use guy. And instead of diamond(it's not an adjective anyway) use great guy. Simple.

Diamond geezer is Cockney - I'd never use it. Are you telling all those Lunnoners they don't speak proper?

What IS it with HAITCH, I must ask? So annoying.
And I agree with Xanatic.
Also- being called The Missus, or however you spell it.Wonderful- I'm described as someone's wife. Not, god forbid, as myself.
And w**ker- w**ker??? where did you get THAT from?

You're calling yourself Mrs Mike, so how can you argue against being percieved just as someones wife.