overused

What is the least appealing word you can think of?

Do you have any words you hate.. in any language? Think about it, something that just sounds icky, or has a forboding feel, or makes you angry, sad, frightened?I suppose on a lighter note, it...

Smileys

Do you like Smileys in emails and documents, or do you think they are overused and annoying?

overused

What is your most overused word or saying when on the computer. Mine is LOL. I use it all the time. Another one is K. That isnt even a word.

Did You Know McCain Was a POW?

Well, if you didn’t, you’re about to find out:[The McCain campaign] will be prepared to show McCain’s “home” in Hanoi by using images of his cell. They claim they...

Snowballing arguments leave nearly all Big Brother 10 houseguests fighting

There have been some intense, crazy-ass, sometimes violent fights on Big Brother during its nine previous seasons, but I'm not quite sure any of them matches the one that aired last night in terms of...

Nothing uncool about patriotism

A Dallas area columnist recently wrote that we should all just shut up about patriotism because it's a word that's overused and "kinda uncool."

Tag Clouds R.I.P.?

I loved tag clouds from the moment I saw them, and I still do. Two years ago, they roamed the social web like buffalo on the pre-Columbian plains of North America... huge, thundering herds of...

Got Away With One

Yesterday, I had a horrible feeling that Jason Marquis was going to be feed to the wolves in his start because our bullpen has been overused lately.  The situation reminded me of a game a couple of...

SBN Blog-Off: The Battle Of Ohio

Tony Tribble/AP After tussling over Brendanukkah's controversial post this week, Jay from Let's Go Tribe and I got into it over who are the territorial baseball kings. It's kind of a Q and A and Q...

You, the Living in the UK.

"'Painterly' is an overused adjective for films, but here's one where it makes sense," writes Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian. "I don't know of any filmmaker whose work gives the viewer so much...

Community Projection: Peter Moylan

I will be in my car today driving down from Atlanta to Florida to spend a week with the Braves. I leave you with this for the day; part of our on-going (and nearly ending) series of community...

Too Much Information!

It used to be an overused punch line on Friends. But now Friends is over, Rowan Manahan would like to adopt it to apply to your Power Point slides. The great 'Insultant' is annoyed enough to share a...

Thoughts on the Boston Closer Role

So in 2 1/3 innings so far, the Red Sox $4MM heavily favored "closer", Joel Pineiro, has been lit up to the tune of 6 hits, 5 Rs, with 4 of them of the earned variety. Some of the other candidates...