Overused ExpressionsThat I Hope I Will Not Have to Hear in 2011

1) "24-7" I hope I can go 24-365 without hearing this dumb phrase in 2011. Or for the next 12-990 of the millennium.

2) "I am all about...." Or "it is all about......" What did it ever mean anyway? Is anything ever all about anything else?

3) Why are things described as being "on" other things? The New York Times recently described some gadget as 'an Ipod touch on steroids.' Another article described a painting as being like a "Van Gogh on acid". These expressions are getting so boring. They are like boring on sleeping pills, or wait, they are like sleeping pills on speed.

4) "Drivers Liscence, registration, and proof of insurance, please sir."

5) "Aren't you a little old to be playing video games all afternoon?" You know, actually any expression that starts with 'aren't you getting too old for...' has been used too often lately. Am I right?

6) "You had them last." Really overused lately. People seem to say this to me about the car keys or my gloves or other objects. Well, I know I had them last, come on, just find them.

7) "Chill" This is sometimes a command. Sometimes it is an adjective, as in "That is so chill". I think it is supposed to imply a state of relaxation. But, I have had an actual chill, it was not relaxing or pleasant, and I would never demand that one of my fellow human beings should be chilled.

8) "Literally" This is often used to punctuate things that are obviously not to be taken literally. Like, "I could eat a horse, literally" A whole horse would take a long time to eat, but it could be done, so perhaps that is not a good example. Here's a better one: my wife told me the other day that it looked like I had "gained 20 pounds, literally." Of course she did not mean that literally so why say it?

9) "Dad, your nose hairs! Seriously!"