Public Address Word of the Year 2009
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Dunno about Word of the Year, but my vote for Post of the Year goes to the guy who took time out in his 2nd-ever PAS post to give Craig a few tips on netiquette…
I vote for this one by BenWilson as by far the best this year.
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Has anyone thrown Lhaws (or Lawhs) into the ring yet?
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I’d like the phrase it’s knowledge, bro to receive some consideration from the judges.
Happily seconded. Here’s the exact origin in case anyone forgot.
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“Outrage” is probably due for another go.
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Has anyone thrown Lhaws (or Lawhs) into the ring yet?
I was hoping somebody would!
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Then I am happy to have obliged, Dottore.
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Haraweary: How the Maori Party feel about their prodigal son.
Exhonerated: What happened to him.
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Copenhatin – a visceral hatred of the socialist lesbian UN taxation program justified by the lie of global warming (see also Wishating)
“Super” and Celebrity Justice must get a running somewhere too…
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I feel weary and devalued just for mentioning it, but: Party Central?
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1. Democracy
2. Carly Binding Referendum – Classic.
3. Urgency – the scary side of Govt on steroids.
4. Copenhagen
5. Underclass – as in sterilise the…That about sums it up, IMhO.
It’s been a hell of a year…
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I’d like the phrase it’s knowledge, bro to receive some consideration from the judges.
I, for one, second that and would like to put in for consideration “It’s Steven Judd”
Lord Ben Egwok
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I was thinking:
Entitlement
Sorry
Gilberterian.Then i thought there was something poetic about those three…
EntitlementSorry I did that
Gilberterian.
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It’s knowledge, bro is the only one I’ve managed to use offline and got a general laugh. My vote.
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Relaxed.
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Wasn’t “Lhaws” covered by “whanker”?
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Gilberterian.
The Fountainhead adapted as comic opera?
EDIT: Google reveals that Gilbert and Sullivan did a comic opera on the very theme of corporatisation and market values as applied to government – Utopia, Limited. Well I never. </threadjack>
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“Relaxed” – as in “I’m feeling…”.
How do you you feel about:
more NZ troops in Afghanistan? Relaxed.
Double Dipton caught out? Relaxed.
youth unemployment? Relaxed.
Minister of the Crown mocking the cycleway? Relaxed! -
Wouldn’tappearontheprogramme
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Well, look, it would be great to see some of the fantastic words that Prime Minister John Key uses in his world class oratory.
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Urgency.
for example: ‘the Government pushed the legislation through under urgency on a vote of 68 to 53…’
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__Haraweary: How the Maori Party feel about their prodigal son.__
Exhonerated: What happened to him.
I’m sorry if this injures any of you, but it occured to me and I thought it should be recorded somewhere…
Hone soit qui mal y pense.
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Ohhhh…
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Has anyone mentioned Recession?
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Well, look, it would be great to see some of the fantastic words that Prime Minister John Key uses in his world class oratory.
Robyn, did you ever see this?
In response to further questioning the Prime Minister refined his position, saying: “‘Look, if directly called upon to embark on an adventure I would probably go. You have to look at the specifics. If I were to be accompanied by Gandalf himself and any high elves then probably, yes, but if it was going to just be some dwarves and a bunch of hobbits then that would not be a high priority quest for me.”
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U-turn? Just shoot it in the head and bury it in an unmarked grave – it just strikes me as stupid and rather dangerous, considering how much time we spend bitching and moaning that politicians never listen…
Which reminds me, Democracy deserves a nomination for Semantic Quick Change of 2009. Who would have throught ‘democracy’ would end the year meaning out-sorcing legislation to badly-designed opinion polls?
Has anyone mentioned Recession?
Got you trumped there: TECHNICAL recession – which is so much better than one of those jobbies hand-made out of taffeta and macaroni elbows, I guess.
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