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Title: Whatever" deemed most annoying word: poll
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/whatever-deem ... wNNZWRpYVNlY3Rpb25MaXN0BHZlcgM
Published: Dec 16, 2011
Author: Edith Honan;
Post Date: 2011-12-18 00:33:08 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do you want to kill a conversation? Try saying "whatever." Words like "you know" and "like" might be irritating to hear, but for the third year in a row, it's "whatever" that holds the most power to annoy, according to an annual survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. Nearly four in ten adults named "whatever" as the most annoying verbal filler in casual conversation, while one in five adults had similar disdain for "like" and 'you know." "Just sayin'" and "seriously" were more forgiving to the ears, though still quite irritating, Marist found. The telephone survey of 1,026 adults nationally had a margin of error of three percentage points. Poster Comment: How about: You know what?
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Whatever. Just sayin'..... "whatever" that holds the most power to annoy
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
I sent my best buddy from high school an e-mail explaining that 9/11 was an inside job. I told my mother in law that our government was our greatest enemy. I gave my father in law a DVD.
He came back with, "yeah, right."
She came back with, "whatever."
He said he would have to call the FBI if he took it.
I said, "yeah right... whatever."
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The OneDollarDVDProject needs patriot activists
to help wake the town and tell the people.
Do friends and family know what you know?
#3. To: wakeup (#2)
imo you should have said "you want the number?" If your in-laws are like that, how does their daughter put up with you? ;) He said he would have to call the FBI if he took it. I said, "yeah right... whatever."
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Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible. The preachers dare not, because they would be driven from their pulpits. Professors in colleges dare not, because they would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not. They would be defeated. Editors dare not. They would lose subscribers. Merchants dare not, because they might lose customers. Men of fashion dare not, fearing that they would lose caste. Even clerks dare not, because they might be discharged. And so I thought I would do it myself... Robert Ingersoll
#4. To: wakeup (#2)
Taking a DVD from you and watching it would warrant a call to the Ku Klux Klan recuiters?? Wow, he sounds very afraid of having his lifelong beliefs upset. I gave my father in law a DVD. He said he would have to call the FBI if he took it.
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15, wakeup (#4)
Or merit action in the 'See something.....Say Something' Nanny State campaign going on at great tax payer expense. Homely Janet will save us all from the possibility of ANY critical thinking about ANYTHING! Taking a DVD from you and watching it would warrant a call to the Ku Klux Klan recuiters??
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
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