ENOUGH ALREADY!!
New York Times Editorial: "The issues surrounding who
uses what bathroom and when and where are fraught with complexity. It
requires a nuanced approach."
The Forest: "We use the Kwick Gas Mart across
the street."
“It is what it is.” Vacant
capitulation to crap.
Tearful Forest Temp Worker: “My paycheck bounced again."
Clueless Forest Business Manager: "Mine too."
Lame Brain Forest Staff Writer: "It is what it is.”
"Dog Whistle" We're dog tired of this one ever since our
office dog walker Scoop McKenzie let the cat out of the bag that it’s not the
whistle in his man purse. It's shorthand for speaking in code, so that a
seemingly innocent term or expression conveys special (generally nefarious)
meaning to a certain audience. See, humans can't hear a dog whistle, but the
dog does. Get it??!!
Fox News Commentator: "The candidate's statement is
a dog whistle for more free spending liberal waste and stupidity."
The Forest Commentator: "When she said Trump should
release his tax returns??"
Man on First Barstool (matter of factly): "We killed
Mom yesterday."
Man on Next Barstool (at first horrified): "That's
awful!"
Man on First Barstool (elucidating): "Not a tough
decision; none of us really liked her"
Man on Next Barstool (affirmatively): "There you
go."
“At the End of the Day” A brain draining substitute for "in the long run." Just
gives us a headache.
“It's All Good!” Moronic testament uttered by someone scurrying away from you. A favorite of overachievers in warp drive.
Salesman: “I sold at least
something today. Guess that's good.”
Motivation Expert: "It's all
good!"
"Going forward…" Implying, we guess, from now on. And what,
exactly, was wrong with “from now on”?
"Eponymous" Why have we been so undeservedly ambushed by
this affected gobbledygook? Seems it's
a torturous reference to something named after something else, or apparently
(gulp!) also the other way around?
1. (of a person) being the person after whom a literary work, film, etc, is named: the eponymous heroine in the film of Jane Eyre.
2. (of a literary work, film, etc) named after its central character or creator: the Stooges' eponymous debut
album.
Collins English Dictionary
The adjectives derived from eponym, which include eponymous and eponymic,[2][6]similarly refers to being the person or thing after whom something is named, as "the eponymous founder of the Ford Motor Company" refers to Henry Ford.[7][8] Recent usage, especially in the recorded-music industry, also allows eponymous to mean "named after its central character or creator".[7]
Dictionary.com by way of Wikipedia
But means which and when? Oh, never mind.
Editors Note: Consistent with our unflagging confusion,
we at The Forest use some of these. We promise to do better going
forward. Oops, darn!
