Common phrases ruined for you by media?

Much appreciated, digs. :cool:

“Tastes like chicken.”

But, but, but … what if it actually tastes like chicken and you aren’t being funny?

You done messed up, A-a-ron. Or rather just the name A-a-ron.
In fact, Key and Peele publicly (but jokingly) apologized to all the people named Aaron whose name they ruined.

You’re out of your element, E-DUB.

Let’s not be hasty; I still haven’t seen, “Big Lebowski,” so all those quotes will be fresh to me, eventually.

Whenever I see a “Baby on Board” sign (or the equivalent), I think of Marge Simpson saying “Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car!”

I’m still furious - I mean literally furious - about the ruination of the word “meme”. I mean, we wait decades for a word to be proposed that means that thing (thank you, Richard Dawkins) and then it’s bastardised in a couple of months of misuse by empty heads on the internet. Shit.

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I read a book from 1976 that used the expression “dark side.”

Star Wars, anyone?

When you mentioned “Baby on Board” I thought that you were going to say the song.

Not exactly a phrase but I’m getting very tired of scandals and controversies of the week being described as “----------gate”. It’s just sad, tired and overplayed. Let it go.

A few years ago there was a row about a government minister insulting a police officer who was manning the gate at the end of Downing Street. There was a big controversy and it was front page news for a couple of days.

The media finally had their chance to have a Gate Gate and they totally missed it. Once again, the British press shamed themselves.