Quotations from 2005 (WARNING: long and possibly annoying contribution)

[Rex W. Stocklin]

Pardon the late reply; I've been ill for quite a spell and now I am
confused ;-)

At 4:58 PM -0400 4/24/05, John Baker wrote:

>Another possibility would be "nuclear option,"

Okay, color me ignorant, but how do PHRASES qualify as QUOTES? I
enjoy observing the use of new words and phrases very much. Such was
my impetus to seek out this forum, where I mostly watch you scholarly
types have at it.

Which brings me to a curious thought....I had read all the ADS Words
of the Year to date and was curious why these phrases weren't noted
(and was curious if any consideration was even given to any of them)
for recent years:


solidify the base
road map to peace
"shots rang out!
jumped the shark
swing for the fences
opt out, opt in
that's so 15 minutes ago
my bad
hook up
oh, snap!
smoke 'em out
one of their own

and the two 2005isms that y'all have cited thus far:
culture of life
nuclear option

singular words or concepts that intrigue me that I haven't spotted on
the ADS yearly lists either:

presenteeism
Neocon
nutraceutical
viral marketing
uber-
site cloud
the dl, the down low
Log Cabin Republican
swift boat veterans
bricks & mortar
boomerang kids
red meat
battleground state
free speech zones
queer eye
stop-loss policy
slippery slope initiative
swing vote or swing state
fly-over states
wedge issue
media oxygen
exit strategy
faith-based initiative
meat puppet
exit strategy
life-style center
morbidly obese
political football
Dirty Sanchez
splinter cell
early adopter
big box
up-and-down vote
decapitation strike
Nascar dads
Jesus juice
boomerang kids
surgical strike
bling, bling-bling
deBaathification
ass (undesirable, as in "that salad was ass")
podcast, podcasting
transfats (aka TFAs or trans-fatty acids)
multi-culti, multikulti
nano-
beatch (pron - BEE-at-tch)
spoof (email fraud)
MRE
bot
E.D. (aka erectile dysfunction)
punk'd
multihyphenate
front (urban verb)
handwringing
spidey-hole (a variant of the accepted WOTY spider hole)
waitron
V-chip
tweener
phat
earworm
B2B
mondegreen
teabagging
WWJD
huffing
addy
gobbledygeek
(izzle-ish, rap Latin - appending -izzle to phonetic syllables to
create urban nonsense) as in fo' shizzle mah nizzle,  meaning "for
sure, my nigga"



also, can anyone tell me if cooter is a euphemism for distaff
"naughty bits" is a recent coinage or of some vintage?

Lexy
Fishers, IN