WBZ's Keller At Large

Keller At Large 7/01/2008

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Play from 0:21[0:21] ..." of them seem to have significant staying power. For instance jumped the shark not happy gains inspired description. Of the moment a cultural phenomenon peaks and start heading. Downhill toward oblivion lingers on years after its inception. With usage is such as the New York Yankees jumped the shark in game five of the 2004 ALCS just to pick an example at random. Other catch phrases that seem to be hanging"...

Play from 1:50[1:50] ..." Manny for extinction it trivializes behavior that has long since jump the shark. -- behavior amusing. Not so much and if you want to defend Manny took me to be sure it's GO mine just"...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" One of the reasons I enjoy my work is that I loved language and its many twists and turns one of the great things about our lingo is that it's constantly changing. With new catch phrase is being born as quickly as human ingenuity can think the -- An excellent article on the website slate dot com explores the recent crop up catch phrases. And notes that some of them seem to have significant staying power. For instance jumped the shark not happy gains inspired description. Of the moment a cultural phenomenon peaks and start heading. Downhill toward oblivion lingers on years after its inception. With usage is such as the New York Yankees jumped the shark in game five of the 2004 ALCS just to pick an example at random. Other catch phrases that seem to be hanging on included description of the act of a politician abandoning a former ally when they do something embarrassing as in Barack Obama through his grandmother under the box. Not so much another wordy way of saying knocked. And two over share which means to bore or annoyed by talking too much also known as sharing too much information. Perhaps better known as TE MI's. These are all keepers in my view along with it is what it is my bad and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But not all catch phrases are worth saving. I dig up all writers everywhere to join me in boycotting the phrase to be sure as a preface to a mitigating statement. If you're sure about it just say. We can also live without upping your grill a euphemism for confrontation or Boston driving if that's not a redundancy. And in the wake of his apparent scuffle with a sixty something coworker. I nominate the phrase Manny being Manny for extinction it trivializes behavior that has long since jump the shark. -- behavior amusing. Not so much and if you want to defend Manny took me to be sure it's GO mine just talk to the hand and stared"

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[2:04]..." tough it out figure out how to make the movie around the shark. And I found that the actions of the shark was actually it for me anyways scarier movie actor thing you've ever Hitchcock but would he do without sure what he did pretty it was like it was obvious fate of the last few friends right there wait any aspirin it's a so so. The water and and using representations of the shark like the scene with a period is pulled out you're by itself turns around chase that. The fishermen that was never the script I mean there's things like that we had called together very quickly so that was called together because the mechanical -- wasn't functioning. Yeah it was that it would officially take out the -- supposed to see the shark story boards showing that shark leaping over water grabbing interest. And not -- mention -- shark but. But even scarier you know having -- being pulled out sort of appear excellent like this on the audience. That's -- the more flies than they imagined as a shark underneath it would. The imagination often is more scary then. Reality and yet the the imagination is always much more frightening than "...

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