Public Address Word of the Year

December 17th, 2007 at 7:23 am by David Farrar

Public Address have announced their word of the year as “Te Qaeda”. The first use of it, according to Google, was by Seamonkey Madness at 4.08 pm on the day of the raids.

The overall top ten are:

1. Te Qaeda
2. Sub-prime
3. It’s business time
4. Sustainability
5. Reconditioning
6. Rotation
7. Smacking
8=. Not okay
8=. Carbon
10. Xtra Service

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14 Responses to “Public Address Word of the Year”

Al-Girta (61) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Surge.
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Lee C (4,499) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 8:56 am
spin-parrot
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GPT1 (1,950) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Phrase of the year:
“cancerous and corrosive”
“that’s Trevour”
“my officials told me to do it”
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Seamonkey Madness (328) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 9:00 am
CarboNZero
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philu (13,393) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:22 am
“it’s business time’ was first past the post..

(and should have got ‘phrase of the year’..

there are no other contenders..)

yet..preferential voting pushed te qeda..(?)..to number one..

(go figure..!..eh..?..)

(i guess in some (small?) circles..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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philu (13,393) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:25 am
‘global economic meltdown’ has a certain resonance..

eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

and surely…ipcc..?..

climate change..?

global warming..?

(as i said..’small circles’..eh..?

doyathink they are in danger of disappearing up themselves..?..)
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philu (13,393) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:28 am
and i guess ‘not okay’ is de riguer in the salons of grey lynn..?

and ‘smacking’ is so ‘last-issue’..

(yawn..!..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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philu (13,393) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:30 am
and yes..the whole fucken planet/economic infrastructure are most definitely ‘sub-prime’..

and what happens to sub-primes..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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philu (13,393) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:33 am
oh..!..btw..

the ‘silly season’ in the mainstream media is coming up..

but never fear..!

whoar is here..!

as a glance at my archives will show/prove..

that while the rest of the new zealand media ‘snoozes’/pumps out mindless pap..

whoar still brings you 15-20 cracker/ripping new/relevant stories..every day..

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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cubit9f (345) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am
It’s a “Beltway” issue

Time to “Move on”

Trevor!!!
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Kimble (3,692) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 11:49 am
“Te Qaeda”

I reckoned at the time it was an instant classic.
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Murray (8,832) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Well the winner wasn’t “…”.

Something to think about phool.
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PhilBest (5,060) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Agree Kimble, Te Qaeda was an instant classic.

May I suggest a new NZ specific term? “Clarkist” and “Clarkism”.

It would embrace a whole raft of “ism’s” that take too long to spell out otherwise.

Has it already been used?
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Mike Readman (323) Says:
December 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Number 10 is an oxymoron surely.
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