I believe you left one thing off; a “(drops microphone)” at the end of your post! Another overly used phrase that deserves the “old heave-ho!”… that someone should “stick a fork in it, because it is DONE!”

Love ya! A belated Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you!

R

[Loosely paraphrased]
Anyone who thinks it could be someone else must be dreaming, and they should wake up and apologize

I know, right!? McCarthy had 19 defectors on the first ballot and by the third ballot he's now got 20! Moving in the wrong direction, and I would wager Democrats aren't going to help him... but we'll see.

So, I'm talking to you, Qevin; I sure hope you didn't unpack those boxes you already moved into the Speaker's office because it looks like you'll be following your buddy Donald and moving out.

No offense, but anyone who bows to Trump looks like an ignorant asshole to me, and Qevin was already certifiably stupid.

But "whom" for "who" is intolerable. It leaps off the page and spits in your face.

That's exactly what happened to me when I read your [6] andygaus, and it's all your fault.

So, Chris, do we get an apology?

You first... and quickly too, before the saliva drips off my rosy cheek.

I'm serious.

I'm not. :)

and in case there was any doubt in the universe about who i meant...

Exactly! :)

There is and always shall be only one "greatest of all time"

I presume you're referring to Ali? If you're not, you should be.

"on the same page" is a phrase i could do without.

It seems the Democrats are on the same page while the GQP and Trumplicans have got that civil war they keep prattling on and on about. Poor Qevin.

I hope it's still okay to use - not overuse - one of my favourite phrases ... absolutely, positively, unequivocally! ... at least until Biden is president no more. Heh.

You do you... just learn how to spell "favorite" while you're doing it. ;P

It is what it is, we suppose. Every year's list -- by definition, in fact -- can't be the GOAT. Irregardless, we absolutely do hope that the list will start moving forward a bit next year and avoid all the redundant repeat offenders -- or we're going to suspect the entire L.S.S.U. team of doing a bit of quiet quitting themselves. After all, such repetitiveness just smacks of gaslighting us all into believing that these terms hadn't already been banished. In fact, if the list's authors were to announce that no phrase can ever make the list a second time -- how could it, when it has been banished? -- we would agree that this would be an amazing inflection point. Does that make sense?

Without gaslighting you or whining about how it is what it is, you're the GOAT when it comes to addressing these banished words and have composed an absolutely amazing piece of writing here, but irregardless of that and moving forward, if you could reach an inflection point contained in one sentence versus a meandering paragraph, perhaps no one would ever accuse you of quiet quitting or deign to ask you a question like, "Does that make sense?"

So, to recap: One and done. *winks*

**NEWS FLASH**

Jeffries falls short of Speakership — leads rival McCarthy 211-202 on first ballot.

Why, Muhammad Ali of course.

There wasn't. Any doubt in the universe, I mean.