[foot-loose]

Found this on another forum - quite interesting.

'mon the Blair!

ASBO
Axis of evil
Beacon councils
BlackBerry
Blair babe
Bog-standard comprehensive
Botox
Boujis
Broadband service provider
Brownites
Burying bad news
Bush's poodle
Buy to let
Carbon footprint
Carole Caplin
Cash for honours
Chelsea tractor
City academies
Civil partnership
Community Support Officers
Congestion charge
Cool Britannia
Darfur
DEFRA
Diary room
Diversity
Dodgy dossier
Dotcom boom
e- in front of anything; eg e-passport,e-voting etc
Ethical foreign policy
Evidence based
Family credits
Fast-track visas
Fit for purpose
Forces of conservatism
Foundation hospitals
Frappuccino
Freedom of Information
Freeview
Gatso speed camera
Granita
Hand of history
Happy slapping
Hate crime
Hedge fund
Home Information Packs
Hoodies
Institutional racism
i-Pods
Islamophobia
ISAs
Joined up government
Kyoto
Lauren Booth
Lifestyle guru
Live 8
Londonistan
Matrix chambers
Millennium bug
Network Rail
New Deal
NICE
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Oyster card
People's Princess
Phoenix Four
Polish plumbers
Pop Idol
Primark
Preachers of hate
Pretty straight kind of guy
Pre-emptive strike
Public service agreements
Psychologically flawed
Respect
Sangatte
SATS
Sexed up
Shoe bomber
Size zero
Sofa government
Social inclusion
Stakeholder
Stealth tax
Superbugs
Sustainability
Target delivery
Taser
Tax credits
The TB/GBs
Third way
Top-up fees
Two Jags
Tsars (Patients' Tsar, Respect Tsar etc)
Viagra
War against terror
Weapons of mass destruction
Wi-fi
Work-life balance
X-Box

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... dec310.xml

[S4B]

Was this to do with the new Collins dictionary coming out? Apparently it also contains "McJob" as a real word!!

[foot-loose]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6683365.stm

[S4B]

Well they're not going to like Collins either then as they've put in the same definition I think and their dictionary comes out in June. There's also a rumour about McMansion!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Are they suggesting Kyoto and Sangatte didn't exisit before 1997?

[S4B]

Possibly, you been watching balderdash and piffle? If they're not in official written documents prior to that time then the dictionaries don't acknowledge them as real words, stupid bloody rule!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I'm pretty sure both places existed before 1997 and were written down....

[S4B]

Ah but I think in this context they may have a different meaning than just a place name, think it's beacuse that's where some climate change treaty was signed and it's now a document that's refered to rather than just a place. Still a stupid rule!!

[Yudster]

Is Darfur a new place then? And where is Bouncebackability?!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

The man who supposedly first said that phrase is currently on my telly. Keep your kids away from Sky Sports 1.

[Yudster]

Will do.

[fish heads]

I'm pretty sure that Carole Caplin was born before 1997 as well

[Yudster]

And what does "Boujis" mean? And "Diversity" has been a watchword of the conservation industry since 1981. Seems other people have only been using it more recently.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Isn't Boujis the nightclub that Prince Harry and William and that Kate Middleton bint go to?

[S4B]

The trouble and beauty of language is that it changes so much, words mean different things now and are used in different contexts so they have double meanings without being double entendres which is a shame as, to my mind, you can't have enough double entendres!

[Zoot]

The trouble and beauty of language is that it changes so much, words mean different things now and are used in different contexts so they have double meanings without being double entendres which is a shame as, to my mind, you can't have enough double entendres!

Nope, I certainly can't get enough...

[S4B]

Glad to hear it Me either...nor double entendres

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Somebody put me out of my misery. please.

[S4B]

Not a problem - come over here and I'll save us all!

[dimtimjim]

Really.....? Good luck on that.

[Wykey]

hey fnz i want 100 namez starting from "M" with complete meaning....

You need @hwinkler4real he's your man for Fonz based questions.

[Sidders]

Why has this thread returned from the grave?

[dimtimjim]

Someone punched '100 names' into google and decided to bother us! Guess they've been edited out though....

[Nicola_Red]

Yep, a spammer bumped it up and people replied to it before the spam post had been deleted, so here it is. I do actually find that list quite interesting tho - especially the words that have disappeared as quickly as they appeared. (Who remembers 'Blair's babes'?!)

[Wykey]

Out of interest, if we didn't reply, would it have un-bumped back to whence it came?

Dotcom boom's back in fashion too...