I think the words apparently and supposedly are overused. Some people use one of these words at the beginning of each sentence they utter, and it’s annoying.
Hey I groc you.
Or is that grok? Unless you meant you give them food or use them as food.
UGH! You’re right!
bloody google
I was actually sorta hoping you’d school me that those pesky kids (and their meddlesome dog) nowadays were really using “groc” as some inverted ironic psychological spoof aimed at us geezers and our made-up, but nevertheless cromulent, “grok”.
“I groc you” is so utterly contemptuous of corny geezer SF as to be a thing of great beauty. It’s a “sick burn” as I think they say these days. Or did a decade ago. Time passes largely unnoticed for me these days 
Hoping “dog pound” has become 100% obsolete.
Could be. I don’t know what it means.
By about the 80’s, or so, it became it lot less heard in my confines (and media, and such). I have vague memories of some Quinn Martin production back on 70s tv where maybe Kevin Tighe or Jack Albertson might make a brief reference to one.
Today’s more benign ‘dog pound’ equivalent (in my area) - the S.P.C.A.
Oh, you mean the literal meaning. I thought it was supposed to be some kind of slang. It’s not a term that I either like or dislike.
Yes,this.
Color me absolutely baffled about any upsetness by anyone over “dog pound” to refer to well, the dog pound, the local government’s impound facility for wayward dogs. The parking authorities tow illegal cars to the impound lot and the animal control officers, AKA dogcatchers, haul illegal or lost dogs to the dog pound. It’s perfectly cromulent American to my ears.
if it has a slang meaning, I’ve never heard it.
I thought he was a football fan and complaining about the “dog pound” at the Cleveland stadium where Browns fans dress up with dog masks and whatnot. The timing even made sense with the NFL season starting this week. (Today, in fact, not counting last Thursday’s opener.)
I don’t object to these terms as such, but they can make searching for articles and other online material somewhat more difficult. If I’m searching the Library of Congress catalog I know I’m safe using just “United States Supreme Court”* or “President of the United States”* because I know LOC uses a standardized list of subject headings.
But if I’m using Google, then I worry that I might miss something important if I don’t search for “Supreme Court” OR SCOTUS. And the same with POTUS.
*Whatever LOC’s exact terms for these subjects are; I don’t remember.
I thought this was a standard Americanism that’s been around for ages, and thus fully baked into the standard as well as all or most dialects. I know it sounds odd to other English speaking countries, to extent that it hasn’t been adopted there.
Totally agree. Hates em.
I didn’t like them the first time I heard them on The West Wing like, what?, twenty years ago? But I got used to them, and now I don’t even notice them.
23 years and 3 days
Man, and I thought I was being generous. 
I can still remember the episode I first heard POTUS. It was the one where Sam Seaborne finds out his date is a prostitute.
which was that first episode
(I did not see WW first-run but probably two or three years later)
Has anyone mentioned “baked in” yet? It aggravates. You might say it has aggravation baked in but that would be obnoxious.
I was sure it was the first season, but I didn’t remember it being the very first episode. I did see it first run!