Public Address | Cafe | Public Address Word of the Year 2009 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2013 Public Address Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143296#post143296 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143296#post143296 Matawhero Wines for the perceptive and the fortunate. Start talking! ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:55:09 +1300 James Francis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143297#post143297 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143297#post143297 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:58:04 +1300 Heather W. http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143299#post143299 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143299#post143299 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:01:39 +1300 Hadyn Green http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143300#post143300 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143300#post143300 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:03:38 +1300 ScottY http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143301#post143301 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143301#post143301 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:20:50 +1300 Ben Gracewood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143302#post143302 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143302#post143302 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:35:02 +1300 giovanni tiso http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143303#post143303 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143303#post143303 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:38:04 +1300 Caleb D'Anvers http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143305#post143305 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143305#post143305 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:45:58 +1300 David Ritchie http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143306#post143306 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143306#post143306 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:46:11 +1300 giovanni tiso http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143307#post143307 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143307#post143307 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:47:25 +1300 Danyl Mclauchlan http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143309#post143309 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143309#post143309 Icestralia: Noun. Portmanteau of Iceland and Australia. The belief that our economy can 'catch up' with Australia by doing the opposite of everything they've done.

McCully: Verb. (to McCully: third person singular simple present. McCullied: past participle). To decieve or mislead a person or group of people for no reason?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:53:16 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143310#post143310 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143310#post143310 Secret Agenda should get a special George Romero Medal for Zombie Rhetoric. It shambles along, is becoming increasingly incoherent, skanky and gross, but just don't won't lie down and stay there.

Special mention should go to Motherfucker which magically became the Swiss Army Knife of vulgar insults — simultaneously racist,?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:10:49 +1300 Rich Lock http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143312#post143312 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143312#post143312

excellent!

No, that was 1992's word of the year.

Get with the times, daddy-o.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:21:55 +1300 DeepRed http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143313#post143313 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143313#post143313 Teabagging – verb. An act of imaginary political anger towards an imaginary Big Government. Highly common among loyal followers of Fox News. See glibertarian. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:29:21 +1300 Caleb D'Anvers http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143314#post143314 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143314#post143314

excellent!

:)

I have to say, though, that "Icestralia" is genius. I'm going to do my darndest to work it into conversation today.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:35:40 +1300 Kerry Weston http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143319#post143319 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143319#post143319 Haraweary: How the Maori Party feel about their prodigal son. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:06:52 +1300 giovanni tiso http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143320#post143320 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143320#post143320

No, that was 1992's word of the year.

Get with the times, daddy-o.

Touché. Oh, and I should credit Conor Roberts for retwiti. Lest people think I'm actually witi.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:17:58 +1300 LegBreak http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143321#post143321 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143321#post143321 retarded ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:18:50 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143322#post143322 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143322#post143322 going forward, especially when Don B and his mates want us to regress? ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:23:10 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143323#post143323 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143323#post143323 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:24:07 +1300 Mikaere Curtis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143324#post143324 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143324#post143324 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:29:14 +1300 Raymond A Francis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143325#post143325 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143325#post143325 "White motherfucker"
Who would think it, let alone say it

But my vote has to go to;"Glibertarian: "

Or Brashterian in fact I like mine better

Talk about a sense of entitlememnt

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:41:23 +1300 Lyndon Hood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143326#post143326 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143326#post143326 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:48:33 +1300 Lyndon Hood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143327#post143327 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143327#post143327 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:52:14 +1300 Rochelle Hume http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143328#post143328 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143328#post143328

Whanker

Has my vote!



Castastrophuck also a favourite (combo catastrophe/clusterfuck)

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:53:59 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143329#post143329 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143329#post143329

Porkbone politics

Ah, but to even being to analyse the role of Freud's concept of projection in political rhetoric is well above this thread's pay grade. I hope the not so subtly coded supersonic race-baiting we've seen from Labour recently is going turn out to be a polling flop, and?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:54:12 +1300 James Littlewood* http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143330#post143330 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143330#post143330 350 ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:56:30 +1300 Cheryl Bernstein http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143331#post143331 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143331#post143331 Regretsy ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:57:03 +1300 Malcolm Ibell http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143332#post143332 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143332#post143332

..incidentally (and nothing at all to do with this topic), is the tour of The Civic still on for Saturday?

It most certainly is, Geoff. I shall post details on the original thread, either later today or tomorrow morning.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:02:43 +1300 James Littlewood* http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143333#post143333 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143333#post143333 Or for those who object to numerals:

Threefiddy

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:03:21 +1300 ScottY http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143336#post143336 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143336#post143336 Entitlement

As in a sense of.

Prevalent among politicians (English, Hide, Harawira etc), the directors of failed finance companies who continue to build enormous mansions and drive flash cars, and failed former politicians who would like to slash government spending and tax so they can keep more of their loot.?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:12:32 +1300 Mikaere Curtis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143337#post143337 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143337#post143337

I hope the not so subtly coded supersonic race-baiting we've seen from Labour recently is going turn out to be a polling flop, and end up being quietly forgotten... Win-win-win, to dredge up another ghastly cliché.

Agreed, and my other hope is that when Labour finally wake up to reality?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:15:06 +1300 Mikaere Curtis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143338#post143338 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143338#post143338 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:16:52 +1300 simon g http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143340#post143340 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143340#post143340 Some great coinages here, but from the nominations so far, my vote goes to "Sorry". Sorry if anyone disagrees, but that's your problem. Sorry.

Another one churned out constantly is "Ishoozaround". There are no longer problems or obstacles or factors or features or advantages or disadvantages or any of those?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:34:50 +1300 Glenn Pearce http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143341#post143341 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143341#post143341 InTimeForTheWorldCup

As in "The must be ready InTimeForTheWorldCup

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:43:00 +1300 George Darroch http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143343#post143343 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143343#post143343 strail – verb. to trail behind the 'stralians. Also strailer – noun. someone who advocates more of these policies. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:46:14 +1300 George Darroch http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143344#post143344 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143344#post143344 I vote: InTimeForTheWorldCup.

Will I have made dinner InTimeForTheWorldCup?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:47:33 +1300 philipmatthews http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143345#post143345 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143345#post143345

I vote: InTimeForTheWorldCup.

My vote too.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:49:28 +1300 Tim Way http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143346#post143346 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143346#post143346 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:50:41 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143349#post143349 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143349#post143349 My nominations so far are going to Icetralia, Teabagging, Glibertarian and the splendidly sneeze-like Ishoozaround.

I've also noticed lately the increased presence of the word stakeholders. Once upon a time you might have heard that someone was consulting parties affected or parties concerned – now they only consult people who?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:56:09 +1300 3410 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143352#post143352 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143352#post143352

insultation – the political process of seeking a wide range of views concerning an already decided future course of action.

Nice. As well as indicating contempt for, erm... stakeholders, it also carries connotations of insulating the decision from accusations of lack of consultation.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:07:45 +1300 st ephen http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143353#post143353 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143353#post143353 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:09:33 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143355#post143355 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143355#post143355 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:11:34 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143356#post143356 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143356#post143356 just brought back into my mind by the estimable Danielle, can we add Death Panels to the list? ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:14:22 +1300 Jackie Clark http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143357#post143357 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143357#post143357 journey from this year, or has it been around interminably? I suspect the latter intermanibility. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:14:49 +1300 tomachi http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143358#post143358 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143358#post143358 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:16:25 +1300 Karen Crisp http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143360#post143360 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143360#post143360

Is the word journey from this year, or has it been around interminably? I suspect the latter intermanibility.

Was going to suggest the same, but didn't as the word has seemingly been annoying me *forever*.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:19:17 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143361#post143361 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143361#post143361

I think every time I hear the word 'stakeholders', it takes a week off my life.

Yup, it's shallow and evasive and hence so very 2009.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:20:41 +1300 Stephen Judd http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143363#post143363 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143363#post143363 it's knowledge, bro to receive some consideration from the judges. But I also think that denier has a lot of resonance at the moment. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:22:14 +1300 LegBreak http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143365#post143365 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143365#post143365 Journey was probably at its most pervasive, and annoying, in 2003. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:25:09 +1300 Jonty http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143366#post143366 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143366#post143366 U-turn

— what, me turn? Oh, well if everyone else is going, would hate to be johnny-no-mates — that's the Key.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:27:41 +1300 George Darroch http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143369#post143369 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143369#post143369

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.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:29:44 +1300 Rich Lock http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143370#post143370 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143370#post143370 Lhaws (or Lawhs) into the ring yet? ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:30:19 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143371#post143371 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143371#post143371

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.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:30:43 +1300 Andre Alessi http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143375#post143375 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143375#post143375 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:43:01 +1300 giovanni tiso http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143376#post143376 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143376#post143376

Has anyone thrown Lhaws (or Lawhs) into the ring yet?

I was hoping somebody would!

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:43:54 +1300 Rich Lock http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143377#post143377 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143377#post143377 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:48:29 +1300 John Fouhy http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143379#post143379 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143379#post143379

Haraweary: How the Maori Party feel about their prodigal son.

Exhonerated: What happened to him.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:51:17 +1300 Gareth Ward http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143383#post143383 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143383#post143383 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...

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:01:59 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143386#post143386 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143386#post143386 Party Central? ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:04:01 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143387#post143387 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143387#post143387 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...

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:05:03 +1300 Knowledge Bro http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143390#post143390 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143390#post143390

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

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:10:22 +1300 Tom Semmens http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143395#post143395 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143395#post143395 I was thinking:

Entitlement
Sorry
Gilberterian.

Then i thought there was something poetic about those three...


Entitlement

Sorry I did that

Gilberterian.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:26:12 +1300 BenWilson http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143396#post143396 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143396#post143396 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:35:11 +1300 horse http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143399#post143399 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143399#post143399 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:59:03 +1300 Stewart http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143403#post143403 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143403#post143403 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:03:55 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143406#post143406 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143406#post143406

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.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:10:08 +1300 Matt Crawford http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143407#post143407 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143407#post143407 "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!

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:10:38 +1300 James Francis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143410#post143410 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143410#post143410 Wouldn'tappearontheprogramme ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:27:06 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143412#post143412 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143412#post143412 Well, look, it would be great to see some of the fantastic words that Prime Minister John Key uses in his world class oratory. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:44:10 +1300 elsketcho http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143413#post143413 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143413#post143413 Urgency.

for example: 'the Government pushed the legislation through under urgency on a vote of 68 to 53...'

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:46:18 +1300 Lyndon Hood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143414#post143414 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143414#post143414

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.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:47:24 +1300 giovanni tiso http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143415#post143415 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143415#post143415 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:48:40 +1300 ScottY http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143417#post143417 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143417#post143417 Recession? ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:51:37 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143419#post143419 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143419#post143419

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?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:59:09 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143420#post143420 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143420#post143420 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.?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:00:20 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143421#post143421 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143421#post143421 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:01:11 +1300 ScottY http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143422#post143422 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143422#post143422

Which reminds me, Democracy deserves a nomination for Semantic Quick Change of 2009. Who would have throught 'democracy' would end the year meaning poll-driven demagoguery?

Angry mob?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:03:08 +1300 steven crawford http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143424#post143424 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143424#post143424 TECHNICAL recession [Edit] referendum. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:09:42 +1300 steven crawford http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143425#post143425 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143425#post143425 Rhododendron How blue are your rhododendrons? crazy like morning glory seeds-:} ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:13:15 +1300 LegBreak http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143427#post143427 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143427#post143427 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:22:03 +1300 BenWilson http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143428#post143428 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143428#post143428

Has anyone mentioned Recession?

Please don't. We're over it.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:24:17 +1300 Caleb D'Anvers http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143429#post143429 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143429#post143429

Auckland Grammar students

GrammarNazi?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:30:20 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143431#post143431 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143431#post143431 In the 'worst word' category.

1. Insomnimac – did I just see that on a billboard, or was I dreaming?
2. Exclusively – apart from not being that gullible, we've been reading about it on PA for days, bro!

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:31:00 +1300 elsketcho http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143432#post143432 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143432#post143432 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:31 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143433#post143433 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143433#post143433

GrammarNazi

Octo-grammarian – educated in the eighties.

Sorry, I'm just making it up as I go along...

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:39:11 +1300 makimaki http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143435#post143435 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143435#post143435 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:42:32 +1300 Geoff Willmott http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143436#post143436 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143436#post143436 Rort

I like #allwhites

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:46:50 +1300 BenWilson http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143437#post143437 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143437#post143437

Who would have throught 'democracy' would end the year meaning out-sorcing legislation to badly-designed opinion polls?

I'm not sure whether to be more worried about that, or the idea that mandate now means "what everyone who didn't vote wanted".

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:52:35 +1300 Geoff Lealand http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143438#post143438 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143438#post143438

1. Insomnimac – did I just see that on a billboard, or was I dreaming?

You are not dreaming. I saw it on a billboard heading towards the Nelson Street off-ramp yesterday. Seems to allude to how eating McD"s keeps you up all night?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:54:53 +1300 Paul Litterick http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143439#post143439 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143439#post143439 Mofonui ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:05:56 +1300 Gareth Ward http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143440#post143440 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143440#post143440 Not to start a circlejerk but there are some seriously clever and witty words in here already and we're only 3 pages in. I guess that's the upside of hanging around with the filthy liberal elite.

I was going to say something about Pun-lic Address System but then figured Craig?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:06:37 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143442#post143442 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143442#post143442

I was going to say something about Pun-lic Address System but then figured Craig would make that something dirty =)

Got me stumped there — though Pube-lick Address has potential.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:59 +1300 BenWilson http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143444#post143444 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143444#post143444

New Zealand's 2009 can be exemplified by an obscure, random, low productiion value animation voiced by an australian-trying-to-do-a-new-zealand-accent.

Weren't the Clones awful? It's not like it's hard to find cheap NZ labor to do the voice-overs, ffs.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:32:31 +1300 George Darroch http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143445#post143445 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143445#post143445

Hone soit qui mal y pense.

Hone is that which is bad and thoughtful?
Translation?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:32:52 +1300 DeepRed http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143447#post143447 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143447#post143447

I'd vote for p-rominent musician if I thought it would get past the senses.

Riddle me this, riddle me that...

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:38:59 +1300 David Ritchie http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143448#post143448 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143448#post143448 "Always Blow On The Pie"

"Safer Communities Together"

"Moustache-gate"

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:42:11 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143450#post143450 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143450#post143450

Hone is that which is bad and thoughtful?
Translation?

I think the literal translation, from Old French, is "Let him who thinks ill there be shamed" — and is the motto of the Order of the Garter. The motto was supposedly the response of the order's founder, Edward III, as?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:49:09 +1300 Gareth Ward http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143452#post143452 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143452#post143452 Also, according to Wiki:
The motto also appears on the entry gates to pop star Michael Jackson's Neverland estate, emblazoned on his personal crest beneath a royal lion and a gemstone-collared unicorn.

Gemstone-collared unicorn is now MY motto...

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:52:31 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143453#post143453 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143453#post143453 Brian Tamaki-make-ore.

I am the supercity!

Too convoluted?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:54:26 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143455#post143455 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143455#post143455

Gemstone-collared unicorn is now MY motto...

You really asked for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BZID081Vk

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:56:18 +1300 Gareth Ward http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143456#post143456 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143456#post143456

You really asked for this

I want to say I didn't, but I suspect that at some level, a level deep down in places I don't talk about at parties, I did....

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:09:05 +1300 Jolisa http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143467#post143467 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143467#post143467 Honi soit qui mal y pense – I always knew it as "evil be to him who evil thinks," and have a vague memory of my Mum saying it was her school motto. Can that be right? Any Sacred Hearters who can confirm or deny?

Loosely translated: "shame on you,?

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:31:17 +1300 Danyl Mclauchlan http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143470#post143470 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143470#post143470 Also,

Tinkerblog: Noun. A blog or other commentator who writes endless variations on the same fantasy in the hope of making it true; eg. climate change is not happening, the National government is deeply unpopular.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:50:59 +1300 George Darroch http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143471#post143471 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143471#post143471 Raceing, Beach raceing

A sport popular among many New Zealanders. Involves flogging a dead horse, usually on the foreshore. See also trotting carnival, a regular event at Bowalley Rd.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:07:15 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143478#post143478 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143478#post143478 Liked Gareth Morgan's description of the 2025 report
"Doorstop by lunchtime."

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:00:53 +1300 steven crawford http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143479#post143479 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143479#post143479

I guess that's the upside of hanging around with the filthy liberal elite.

I thought that said fifty liberal elite, on first reading. I was thinking, thats sounds rather a lot.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:02:34 +1300 Jason Dykes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143480#post143480 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143480#post143480 Obama

Copenhagen

W-shaped recession

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:28:49 +1300 Gordon Paynter http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143485#post143485 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143485#post143485 Supercity ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:23:41 +1300 Gordon Paynter http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143487#post143487 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143487#post143487 parental correction. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:31:59 +1300 Jackie Clark http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143488#post143488 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143488#post143488 Honi soit qui mal y pense Honte is shame, certainly. As a french speaker, I would say it was what Craig said. It literally means "Shame be who thinks ill thereof". So, yeah. ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:33:29 +1300 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143492#post143492 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143492#post143492

Hone soit qui mal y pense.

That, sir, is inspired.

]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:50:35 +1300 Rich Lock http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143545#post143545 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143545#post143545 WemustcatchupwithAustralia ]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:18:18 +1300 JLM http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143549#post143549 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143549#post143549 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:28:05 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143550#post143550 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143550#post143550 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:33:21 +1300 Amy Gale http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143565#post143565 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143565#post143565 Can we have a parallel vote for phrase of the year?

Stephen's nomination of it's knowledge, bro is an excellent one.

I'm also extremely partial to bourgeois legume patties and normal people don't do that kind of shit and so aren't aware of the other meanings.

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:35:03 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143566#post143566 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143566#post143566 It tastes like X I've made myself. It tastes good. ]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:43:43 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143567#post143567 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143567#post143567 Wait, wasn't it bourgeois legume croquettes?

In any case, Amy's proposal is seconded. With a follow-up vote for a priori conception of falafel.

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:43:43 +1300 Sam F http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143571#post143571 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143571#post143571 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:51:08 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143580#post143580 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143580#post143580 By way of comparison, the Global Language Monitor words of the year were.
1. Twitter
2. Obama
3. H1N1
4. Stimulus
5. Vampire.
Top phrase is 'King of Pop'.

Used in a sentence that's;

'Twitter Obama gives H1N1 stimulus, and Vampire is King of Pop'.

Which is almost funny,?

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:20:07 +1300 Heather W. http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143588#post143588 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143588#post143588 Phrases:

"It's not a good look"

"animalistic penis-brains (APB)" (c/- Danielle/Tess Rooney)

Word:
intertextuality

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:36:55 +1300 Danielle http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143600#post143600 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143600#post143600 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:15:12 +1300 Tony Parker http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143612#post143612 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143612#post143612 National Standards. ]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:02:16 +1300 Kyle Matthews http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143625#post143625 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143625#post143625 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:05:54 +1300 Paul Webber http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143634#post143634 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143634#post143634 I quite liked ?bikoi?. The word just sounds natural and elegantly describes a hikoi on bikes. For a cross-language graft, it hangs together well.

As for the philosophy of the inaugural bikoi, that hangs together less well. Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident?

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:51:37 +1300 Stephen Judd http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143638#post143638 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143638#post143638

Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified

Not in a universal system that insures rugby players, skydivers, trampers, ... we're all in this together, mate.

Personally I think it's the?

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:03:24 +1300 Rich Lock http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143641#post143641 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143641#post143641

Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified.

And I don't disagree with you. But turning round and saying 'oh, by the way, you'll be paying 400% more next year for?

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:06:57 +1300 DeepRed http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143648#post143648 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143648#post143648

As for the philosophy of the inaugural bikoi, that hangs together less well. Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified.

If any group of motorists deserve to be pinged with?

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:39:37 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143651#post143651 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=143651#post143651

Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified.

There is still debate over accountability, but being a Scooterist, I'll declare a conflict and move on. Still, you can only ride one?

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:51:40 +1300 Robyn Gallagher http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144073#post144073 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144073#post144073 slapstick orgasm, from the reporting of the An Adagio Christmas non-story un-controversy. ]]> Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:21:23 +1300 Craig Ranapia http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144103#post144103 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144103#post144103

I quite liked ?bikoi?. The word just sounds natural and elegantly describes a hikoi on bikes. For a cross-language graft, it hangs together well.

Much better than "whiny entitled jerks who should start paying part of the bill for their middle age crisis".

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:50:04 +1300 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144105#post144105 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144105#post144105 an heresey uttered out loud: there was no memorable word for 2009.
It was cliche adspeak comporn & mediabumpf from here to breakfast-

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:58:42 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144107#post144107 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144107#post144107

It was cliche

You have mail :)

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:53:05 +1300 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144108#post144108 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144108#post144108 ) (and me to bed!) But hey – if there are ever alliteration stakes, a certain party has won it – and it aint Stella! Tho' the performance was- ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:56:54 +1300 Blake Monkley http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144119#post144119 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144119#post144119 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:05:52 +1300 Hilary Stace http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144125#post144125 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144125#post144125 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:41:17 +1300 Isabel Hitchings http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144211#post144211 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144211#post144211 binge thinking ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:44:30 +1300 BenWilson http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144214#post144214 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144214#post144214

I have a lingering fondness for binge thinking

The only effective cure for the hangovers from it is hair of the blog

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:50:58 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144215#post144215 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144215#post144215

What happened to textes?

How do you write that sound you make when you go 'hewwwuhuh' while involuntarily shaking?

That word is right up there with 'Exclusively'.

Just remembered my favourite, all purpose noughties word;

'Meh!'

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:56:39 +1300 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144218#post144218 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144218#post144218 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:33:19 +1300 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144219#post144219 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144219#post144219 "Annnnd the all-purpose pun nostrum award goes to......BenWilson!"


Gah! How did the doubling happen?

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:33:19 +1300 James Francis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144227#post144227 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144227#post144227

What happened to textes?

Got lostes

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:26:52 +1300 Felix Marwick http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144240#post144240 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144240#post144240 in honor of all those Top Model shows

beautilate

]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:54:31 +1300 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144264#post144264 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144264#post144264 Inadvertent gets its umpteenth airing for the year, most featuring the same tribe of pollies. Lack of deliberateness, little deliberation about anything. ]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:06:46 +1300 recordari http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144288#post144288 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144288#post144288

Inadvertent gets its umpteenth airing

Oh, I can't wait for the 10 minute detailed news item on this one...

'Exclusively, we talk to the driver of the self drive ministerial vehicle, and discover that the vehicle doesn't drive itself at all, you actually have to drive it! More shocking revelations,?

]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:11:55 +1300 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144292#post144292 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144292#post144292 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:34:08 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144296#post144296 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144296#post144296 At least they won't have to send a camera crew to Dipton for the interview. Huh? oh... (orders them back) ;) ]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:47:10 +1300 Steve Barnes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144297#post144297 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144297#post144297 If [insert name of Nation whose TV company bought the franchise here] Top Model were to be broadcast three times of an evening could it be called Tri Nightly beautilate?
Sounds like a faked Organic.
OOOh, that Barnzy is just sooo way out there. init.

]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:49:10 +1300 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144303#post144303 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144303#post144303 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:08:30 +1300 Steve Barnes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144370#post144370 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144370#post144370 Ah, but. It's getting warm and the thought of a cold one or two at the well renowned Mac's Bar in Kingsland seems a go.
Come five O'Clock I can see a jug or several slip quietly into the past tense.

]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:46:43 +1300 Trevor Nicholls http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144555#post144555 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144555#post144555 Not word of the year unfortunately, but perhaps it could qualify as Blend of the Year:

Foxymoron News

]]> Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:29:25 +1300 tussock http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144569#post144569 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/public-address-word-of-the-year-2009/?p=144569#post144569 Ambitious.

You know, for nzld. Like what how I'm ambitious for your sister, eh.

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