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[grizzle]

"Ground zero" is one that got old fast, when used not in relation to the 9/11 site. Actually, even when it was used for the 9/11 site.

For example, "I'm down here at the cookie dough factory where the cookie dough making machine went on the blitz and spewed cookie dough all over the factory workers. Standing at ground zero, it sure is a doughy mess! *wink to the camera*"


The other one that gets me is politicians and officials starting sentences with the word "Look". What it tells me is that they are about to make some off-the-wall claim, or a line of bullshit, or they have no clue what they are talking about, but they think if they prefix their statement with a commanding word like "Look", then the listener will think there must be some truth to it or the statement is more important than it really is.

It also gets to me because when speaking to a person, they should be using the word "listen". Them saying "look" to a listener is like the old joke with two guys in the woods, "Listen! Did you smell that?"