Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2011
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Richard Grevers, in reply to
Dan Carter's groin
Did you have to mention groins, David? Now you appear to have jinxed Vettori's as well!
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A vote here for earthquake or #eqnz . I suspect in 20 years time that's how we'll look back at 2011. What a mad year.
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CGT
#HipstersForGoldsmith
TROTIE
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Just gotta be Nekminuite.
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Anyone else thing ACT should officially rebrand as the Tea Party?
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I'll put a bid in on Murdoch, per et fil. Both worthy of their A Team namesake, and chewed up many, many column inches on and off-line.
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TracyMac, in reply to
Jack, complety and utterly OT, but where do you get your tattoos done in Wgtn?
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yaknow
Seems to be creeping in everywhere as a placeholder when explaining something that the listener obviously does not know. Sometimes, yaknow, I just can't help counting the number of yaknows speakers use, especially when they start out, yaknow, with two or more in a single sentence.
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Red zone?
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McCully?
Trains?
Auckland Public Transport?
Party Central?
Emergency Button?
PS: Does the word(s) have to have been used? Or can we build one from events??
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Seismic shift.
Sara/Cera.
Sir Stephen Donald.
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Liquifaction
87
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munted
wellywood
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Prostetnic Vogon Joyce.
Breivikisation.
Berlusconification.
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"White-Anting"
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rebuild phase
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Phone hacking.
Fracking.
Zumwohl.
Nunniversary.
The price of milk.
Pippa Middleton.
Pippa Middleton's sister. -
merc,
Bumpads.
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Haircut
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PS: Does the word(s) have to have been used? Or can we build one from events??
Do you mean like this?
Cessna.
As in: Some people believe that when compared with Pippa her sister is a Cessna*.*little plane
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"Look", or maybe, "Oh, look". Government ministers use it all the time in interviews when they want to dismiss a tricky question while seeming to be "relaxed" (John Key's word for 2011).
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
“Look”, or maybe, “Oh, look”. Government ministers use it all the time in interviews when they want to dismiss a tricky question while seeming to be “relaxed” (John Key’s word for 2011).
The NZ version of "don't you worry about that", methinks?
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
The NZ version of "don't you worry about that", methinks?
As long as we're in the wacky world of Joh Bjelke-speak, was the Epsom tea party an example of "feeding the chooks", Premier Joh's favourite phrase for dealing with the media?
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Mandate ...
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Hebe,
Fuckgedunderthetable/doorway/outside -- Most used parenting phrase in Christchurch this year.
Then; a minute later: SorryIdidn'tmeantoswear.
Most used in general section: "That was big." ( and Emma Hart was nowhere near.)
Most used overall (includes texts): R u ok
Honorable mention for the most weaselish: Dynamic
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