on so many levels

is, on just one single level, so incredibly grating.

triple threat

When I first saw this on a Power Bar, I thought it said Triple Treat (mmmm).

What is it about triple that makes it so threatening?

kindred spirits!

It seems I'm the only one who suffers these excruciating words and phrases.

An American university posts an annual list of words that should be banished from the English language - including a few of mine.

Lake Superior State University 2008 List of Banished Words

you do the math

If you're trying to make a point, you do the math.

Don't make me do the work. I never was any good at math anyway.

yummy mummy

Just as irritating although not quite as offensive as it's bad-ass counterpart MILF, the phrase yummy mummy sends me into waves of nausea.

Now I discover there is actually a website called yummymummycareers.com that helps these fashionista mamas find their way back into paid employment.

But check out the graphic. A stacked, impossibly long-legged barbie doll in a miniskirt and plunging neckline balances a cigarette and a laptop while her sullen, neglected daughter reaches for a very large butcher knife.

canoodle

canoodle, canoodling...

what does that even mean?

kinda, sorta

it's just sort of wimpy to just kind of commit to what you're kinda sorta of trying to say? you know?