The Dictionary of American Diction, No. 18

     

  Monster hiring tools is easy to use...  Monster.com

  That is very disconcerning.

  My bad.  (Two adjectives don't make a right.  Exception: can be acceptable when used in the vernacular, "Aw, my bad, dog." Thanks to Pat Sweany for pointing that out.) 

  You keep interrupting me.  That's not very etiquetteful.  (You know who you are.)

  By this point I'm feint with hunger. - Mac Montandon in the Black Table, 01.24.06   (1. It's an verb used as an adjective. 2. That's not what it means.)

  They need medication to keep them alive for the rest of their lives.  (Bill Clinton.  While we love to crack on the grammar of a Rhodes Scholar, we can't crack on the fact that he is throwing down big time on AIDS meds for kids in developing countries, which isn't funny. )

At first, there were concerns that David Lee Roth wouldn't be as entertaining as Howard Stern in the morning.  Then he mentioned:

   "40 metric pounds"

  "...people who are well more knowledgeable..."

  "Does R. Kelly got a girlfriend?"

  "We should get out of Iraq and let things develop in and of their own time and result."

 


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