The Dictionary of American Diction No. 11

       
  • I don't have my license because the police took them away.
  • "...fellow Yalie Garry Trudeau jabbed at Kerry's tendency to play the self promoting pre-Madonna in no fewer than three Doonesbury strips." (Leigh Householder in Knotmag, 6.16.2004)
  • "This approach is an effective way to offset your businesses exposure." from an accounting firm's newsletter.
  • Assemblyman Mark Leno ... said he was glad Schwarzenegger didn't repeat the "girlie men" remark Sunday, saying it was "as misogynist as it is anti-gay." From the AP (Who will speak up for the rights of adjectives?)
  • When you're advertising, you want people to remember your name. You have to impound it into their brain.
  • ``The kids think of it as a slushy, but it's very nutritional,'' Jerry Edwards, as reported by Liz Atwood of the Balitmore Sun.
  • "A lot of people think that, but it's a misconsumption." -- Emeril Lagasse
  • Headline on the Surreal Life newsletter: "Hammer vs. Brande Whose Got Game?"
  • The combination of garlic and roasted pepper is pleasing to the pallet.
  • "It's the little things like this that I love doing this program." -- Al Roker
   

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