Ah, blogging. It’s so … bloggy. Snarky. Tasty.
… repetitious.
The time has come to discuss the elephant in the room.
Everything is faster these days. The world wide web has made the world a smaller place. In so doing, it has created in us, the bloggers, a new and, in many ways, more powerful force for change than ever has been seen before on the face of God’s green earth or in the history of the known universe!!
How is it, then, that change is so laborious, so plodding, so delayed?
“With my mighty robot powers, I can get sick of things much quicker than you humans.” Bender – Futurama
Clichés: They surround us, envelope us, suffocate us.
Now, I realize some clichés will never leave us, so I’m not trying to stir up a hornet’s nest. I also realize I use clichés in my blogs and comments like anyone else; I won’t ignore the beam in my own eye. But like Bender, bloggers can get sick of things quicker than normal offline folks. We can ruin things faster too. The collision of blogs with political and popular culture is the perfect storm of bad writing. The fact of the matter is, it’s high time to address some clichés that have become so overdone as to be positively grating. Faint heart never won fair maiden, and so I will shoulder this onerous burden.
But, let us mince words no more. It’s time to take this to the next level. I have put together a list which I believe represents the worst of the worst. The absolute, blogtastic and spectacular list of abused words, phrases, idioms, analogies, synonyms, and good old fashioned red-blooded clichés.
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