# Pre-poll collection of annoying SDMB expressions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564 "2012-01-15T03:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/21 "2012-01-15T14:35:01Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > While we’re on annoying regionalisms, I still can’t get my head round the use of “any more” in the positive sense. “I eat a lot of tacos any more.” WTF. I’ve never seen that usage. Weird to me too. I’m not even sure what they’re trying to say! ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/22 "2012-01-15T14:37:40Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > _Ay! Throw them in the quarry now; > Long have they made us smile: > For Opal insists on a three-point list > Or a Death Ray of Twenties style. > Though overuse has sunk them down > Low as the Challenger Deep, > We were amused; penis ensued > And the snark gave us something to keep. > We celebrated simulposts > Where Diuran’s Rio gleams; > In truth we built this community > On a bunch of silly memes._ Did you write that? If so, BRAVO. If not, where the heck did you get it? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/23 "2012-01-15T14:53:13Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617729) is a related poll I posted in July. > mmm I had to go look for my post to be sure I had actually contributed more than just my votes. [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14084651&postcount=192) what I added. One would think the exercise of sorting those votes would have left some sort of impression. All I can say is that whatever impression it did leave, I had managed to repress. In any case, I will be building whatever eventual poll this thread produces to include the majority (ones with significan votes anyway) from that thread. I’m anxious to see how many other such threads I participated in! ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/24 "2012-01-15T22:13:11Z")
Hi **Zeldar**. This would be more at home in list of annoyances such as the one linked to by **Mean Mr. Mustard** , but it could, nonetheless, be included for informational purposes: _Posters obsessing over minor annoyances such as a common memes or catchphrases._ Even though I enjoy reading polls like Mustard’s, I’m usually more :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: toward the people who are actively agitated about some phrase, than I am about the phrase itself. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/25 "2012-01-15T22:37:32Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Did you write that? > If so, BRAVO. > If not, where the heck did you get it? It’s a pastiche on Holmes’s poem [“Old Ironsides”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ironsides_%28poem%29) that coveys my feelings about the memes – amusement leading to a sense of overkill as they become ‘bandwagon’ gimmicks. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/26 "2012-01-15T23:05:19Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Outstanding! Thanks for the memory refresher, too. That was great fun as well. And a mighty list of abhorrences, to boot. > > It nevers fails to amaze me how quickly after a good idea has been addressed, and convincingly, it will arise again as a “new thought” or “new thread.” My sincere apologies to you and your excellent thread. I even participated in it! How could I have forgotten? Apology completely unnecessary. This topic should be re-visited every six months or so anyway. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/27 "2012-01-15T23:43:41Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Apology completely unnecessary. This topic should be re-visited every six months or so anyway. > mmm Thanks, and I believe you must be right on the revisiting. It’s going to happen regardless of our feelings about it. Might as well accept the inevitable. As a project somebody might want to undertake, we might follow some basic thread idea from 1999 to the present and see how often it recurs and under what guise. Any guess(es) what the theme(s) might be before we start the search? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/28 "2012-01-15T23:46:19Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Hi **Zeldar**. This would be more at home in list of annoyances such as the one linked to by **Mean Mr. Mustard** , but it could, nonetheless, be included for informational purposes: > _Posters obsessing over minor annoyances such as a common memes or catchphrases._ > > Even though I enjoy reading polls like Mustard’s, I’m usually more :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: toward the people who are actively agitated about some phrase, than I am about the phrase itself. Excellent point! Maybe there’s some “rubbernecking” at play when we get all giddy about the way others have such heartburn over such trivial stuff. Makes you wonder what blood pressures must be like here. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/29 "2012-01-15T23:50:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! This was already nominated. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/30 "2012-01-15T23:59:25Z")
For a little exercise in karma, notice that [Beginner’s Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298) has been linked to in [this post!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14671999&postcount=176) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/31 "2012-01-16T00:06:52Z")
“I see what you did there.” Mentioned in mmm’s poll, but not in this one yet. As it is my (least) favorite, I wanted to make sure it got included! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/32 "2012-01-16T14:33:11Z")
It won’t be too much longer before I undertake the task of collecting all these annoying expressions into a list, both from this thread’s posts and from threads linked to here. Just didn’t want those participants here to think I was dropping the ball. It’s still early, as I see it. Last time I tried to prune a gigantic list like this one may turn out to be, some grading system had to be used. So the more often a gripe is expressed, the more likely the offending item will make the poll. Just saying… After all, there is an upper limit to the size of a poll. I’m thinking 200 options. Anybody know better? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/33 "2012-01-16T16:27:24Z")
Og Hi Opal Zombies/Brains Bringing pie ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/34 "2012-01-16T16:32:28Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Og > Hi Opal > Zombies/Brains > Bringing pie Yo, **Bob Ducca** , you want to share with the folks some of the thrills we had trying to build that monster poll on _The Wire_ and how much love and appreciation we got for that effort? 😃 Big polls like this one can pose serious problems in their construction. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/35 "2012-01-16T17:27:54Z")
^This. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/36 "2012-01-16T17:48:16Z")
Wow, just … wow. What do I win? Methinks … ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/37 "2012-01-16T19:35:47Z")
Three. Consecutive. Periods. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/38 "2012-01-16T19:51:01Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > What do I win? Or it’s cousin, “Thread over.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/39 "2012-01-16T19:53:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > ^This. / That. I have confidence in whatever anyone posts after me. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-collection-of-annoying-sdmb-expressions/609564/40 "2012-01-16T20:05:14Z")
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