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There are some phrases in the lexicon that just need to go away.  There’s a few on my mind.  Babygirl is just ignorant.  Guys, you sound like idiots when you call a girl this name.  I guess they think it’s meant to be endearing.  That’s not the only one.  By the way, I’ve seen that name used by a woman as her social media profile.  C’mon!

A few more I can do without are as follows: Fri-yay.  This is supposed to be an exclamation that you’re glad that it’s Friday.  What happened to TGIF? I guess that’s old man speak these days.  That, and probably this whole column, makes me an old man.  That’s fine by me.  A few friends of mine came up with some great answers when I posed this question.  A few of these I’d honestly forgotten.  Lit and woke are two good, or in this case, bad, ones.  Lit actually sounds like it came from the ‘90’s.  We should’ve left it there.  I was a little late to the party on the word woke.  The first I heard it was months ago on SportsNation.  “Get woke”.  “Stay woke”.  Just go to sleep already!

Woke in this sense is not the past tense of wake.  It’s a state of intellectual superiority one gains by reading the Huffington Post.  That’s Urban Dictionary’s definition.  What I gathered, however, from watching SportsNation(which was actually the first time I heard this word) has nothing to do with reading the Huffington Post.  The rest of the definition is fairly accurate, though.  The guy who would keep saying it was using it in a social context, staying alert on social issues.  Still, it’s very annoying.  Stop it!

Thanks to Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino(2008), the phrase “get off my lawn” was introduced.  It’s still used today.  Seton O’Conner uses it quite a bit on the Dan Patrick Show.  Surprisingly, this one does not annoy me.  Perhaps I’ve become a “get off my lawn” type of person.  Dope is one that will probably never go out of style.  The word, not the drug, may not be as prominent as it was back in the ‘90’s but it’s still used sporadically, I think.  

I may think of more in the future but those were on my mind as top annoyances.