RANKED: Let's Ban These Overused Phrases Of The Decade

In 2010, let us all advance our everyday verbal communication.  There are countless numbers of overused words of expressions that has limited our thinking abilities in speaking.  In fact, some of these overused phrases sounded dumb the moment they became popular.

Check out this list of 75 words and phrases I deemed as overused, improperly used and must be substituted for more intelligent expressive thoughts.

1. _________ brought sexy back.  (It was only cool when Justin Timberlake sang his hit in 2006.)
2. _________ is my Facebook friend.  (By now, not EVERYone is your "friend" on Facebook.)
3. _________ is the new black.  (Shouldn't Blacks take offense to this phrase.  All of a sudden, we're kool?)
4. _________ whore (e.g. attention, clothes, shoe, etc.)
5. 24/7
6. 97% fat-free  (Why can't the products be all-the-way fat-free, if they made to 97%?)
7. a hot mess
8. alliance  (Every reality-TV game show has one.)
9. amazing  (Learn more synonyms, Katie Holmes.)
10. anti-gay
11. at the end of the day  (The only thing that really happens at the end of your day is sleep.)
12. bareback
13. battleground states  (It's just the Republican-biased media who used that term to scare Barack Obama voters during the presidential race.)
14. beef/feud  (This is worst than high-school drama, especially in the hip-hop community.)
15. begs the question  (Just ask.  There's no need to beg.)
16. bi-partisan
17. bling
18. Breaking News!!!  (All of sudden, all the blogs and news outlets have the same breaking news.)
19. bring _________ to justice
20. brokeback  (The gayest term of the year almost got confused with the word "bareback," especially in porn.)
21. bromance  (It is just a way to say we're closer but not gay.  Whatever!)
22. brother from another mother/sister from another mister
23. carbs  (One of the diet fads that scared people for no reason.)
24. Clearly.
25. cougar
26. diva  (A title that the gays give away to easily and Beyonce ruined. What is sadder is that the gays give the title to themselves.)
27. douche/douche bag  (The white people's only term to call a bad person without cursing.)
28. e-_________ (e.g. commerce, trade, etc.)
29. edgy
30. flip-flop  (This only sound good for sex.)

Added to this list:

1. going forward  (This is the professionals' oxymoron.)
2. gone too soon  (Deaths happen according to God's plan.)
3. Got _________ ? (e.g. milk, game, beef, etc.)
4. green/going green (about saving the environment)
5. heads up
6. hip-hop  (All of a sudden, anyone who raps is part of hip-hop.  KRS-One even shoved this word down our throats until the genre played itself out.)
7. homeland security
8. I just threw up in my mouth.  (That is too much information.)
9. icon  (Especially with the gays, people do not have to pay dues anymore to earn that title.)
10. I'm getting my _________ on. (e.g. drink, freak, education, etc.)
11. It is what it is.  (What is it?)
12. It was so surreal.  (If one more white celebrity use this word during interviews to describe great events.)
13. literally
14. LOL  (This got old once our grandparents knew what this stands for.)
15. man boobs  (Men do not want to have their body part named after female parts.)
16. maverick
17. must-see TV  (Is that so?  According to whom?)
18. Nahmean?/Yahmean?/Know what I'm saying?  (It came at end of every response from New York rappers earlier this decade.  Our response should have been "huh." )
19. not so much
20. One!  (The salutation at the end of conversations amongst people from the east coast.  Perhaps, next decade, they will say "two.")
21. organic  (Organic food tastes no different than non-organic food, but the consumers are conned into paying more than 100% difference.)
22. pop off
23. post-9/11  (Everyday is post-9/11.)
24. Reality-TV/reality-based TV  (Once viewers learned that taped situations are recreated and are scripted, reality-TV became no more.)
25. recession special  (This is a fraudulent term to label a regular sale.)
26. Say no more.
27. Seriously.
28. socialite, celebrity, gaylebrity (for people are not known to more than 100,000 people and do not earn money from their fame.)  (This is a term for the attention-starving, insecure people to give themselves in order to feel important...even to themselves.)
29. stan (as in obsessed fan)
30. status update
31. staycation
32. stimulus
33. Stop snitching  (This has to be the DUMBEST and deadliest phrase used in the hip-hop community.)
34. Sweet!
35. That's hot.  (Once Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie overused this phrase purposely on their reality-TV, it became too commonplace for others to lazily use it.)
36. The “clever” blending of two words to create one era-appropriate word, like “Staycation,” “bromance,” “Metrosexual,” “Recessionista,” and “Brangelina.”
37. thinking outside the box  (Where is the box?)
38. This is _________ , and I approve this message.
39. threw _________ under the bus  (This phrase angered many scorned people on reality-TV shows.  Then, that feeling rolled onto everyday people.)
40. un-American  (Anyone who used this phrase is un-American.)
41. untimely death  (Who designated the time of deaths?)
42. wake-up call
43. wardrobe malfunction  (Thank you Janet Jackson.)
44. weapon of mass destruction
45. Yo/B/Ma/Papi/Pa/Mami/Son

The one phrase that got on my nerves the most is when aspiring videos hoes and strippers, flamboyant skinny gay boys and average looking men with nice physiques call themselves a model.  Remember this, a true working, professional model is one who make their living covering all their expenses solely as a working model.  Working the chitlin-circuit or posing for small-scale magazine, websites and other periodicals does not make you a model.  Being a stripper, porn star or hosting events showing off your physique does not make you a model.

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Definitely add.. "are u serious???"

I HATE IT!!!!!!!