January 01, 2007

Banned Words

During this new year please refrain from using the following words\phrases under the authority of Lake Superior State University. As the culture police of our society the LSSU is only looking out for the good of humanity by proffering this list. So utilize it under penalty of mucus or something..

  • Gitmo
  • Combined celebrity names
  • Awesome
  • Gone or went missing
  • Pwn or pwned, a misspelling of “own” used by online video gamers
  • Now playing in theaters
  • We’re pregnant
  • Undocumented alien
  • Armed robbery gone bad or drug deal gone bad
  • Truthiness
  • Ask your doctor
  • Chipotle
  • i-anything
  • Search
  • Healthy food
  • Boasts

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/01/01/banned-words.html

1 comment:

- Rob said...

There is a widespread Mexican food chain known named Chipotle. I wonder what they are supposed to do?

That also happens to be the name of a food product. I wonder if this group is suggesting a different name for that.

Is this the start of NewSpeak?