7 Terms and Phrases We Should Bury With 2009
by ilene - December 30th, 2009 4:23 pm
Missed this the first time around…
7 Terms and Phrases We Should Bury With 2009 (reprise)
Courtesy of The Reformed Broker, Joshua M Brown
this post originally appeared on November 20th 2009
Every passing year gives rise to any number of mind-bogglingly annoying terms and phrases. 2009 was no exception.
I submit the following terms as ready-for-obsolescence as the year draws to a close, let’s leave these behind as we head into 2010:
Shovel-Ready
Let me help you out with this: there is no such thing as a shovel-ready project. Nowhere in the nation can one break ground on anything without a minimum of 3 to 6 months worth of angry town hall meetings, eminent domain battles and political posturing. This is why federal money is still brimming in the states’ coffers rather than being spent on stimulus to this day.
Too Big To Fail
If I hear this term again, I’m gonna experiment with how far down my throat I can jam a pair of newly-sharpened gardening shears. Big things fail all the time, just look at Kirstie Alley‘s comeback attempt.
There’s An App For That
In my day (1998 to be precise, a year that I absolutely OWNED) "apps" were short for appetizers. Neighborhood bars could always class up the joint by adding an apps menu of potato skins, mozzarella sticks and chicken fingers. The whole app-phone thing is cool, but the incessant discussion of the fact that your phone can now pinpoint the exact location of any girl you dated back in college is pointless and annoying in the extreme. Nobody cares about your phone or what it can do, you didn’t invent it, you merely selected the wallpaper.
The Fed’s Printing Press
Not since Gutenberg invented his book machine has so much attention been lavished on any one printing press. The notion that the Federal Reserve is "running the printing presses night and day" has become so oft-repeated that non-business people now actually believe that Geithner is stained with actual green ink.
Going Rogue
Neither Sarah Palin or any of the journalists that play into her nonsense truly know the meaning of the word "Rogue". Should either the walking curiosity we call Ms Palin or her equally absurd media tormentors ever truly encounter a real "rogue" of any sort, they would promptly be in…