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Monday, June 17, 2002

Words Graydon Carter has banned from Vanity Fair:

aka
bed-sitter (for apartment)
boasted (as in had or featured)
bôite (for restaurant)
chortled (for said)
chuckled (for said)
cough up (as in to spend)
doff
donned (as in put on)
eatery (for restaurant)
executive-produced and such like
flat (for apartment)
flick
freebie
freeloader
fuck (OK for exclamation, not for having sex)
funky
garner
glitz
golfer
graduate (v)
honcho
hooker
joked (for said)
moniker
opine (in any form)
paucity
pen (used as a verb)
plethora
quipped
row (meaning to fight)
sleaze
titles of books, movies, plays, etc.: no diminutives ? i.e., not Prince for The Prince of Tides
tome (for book)
wanna
weird

¶ 6/17/2002 08:32:31 PM

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¶ 6/17/2002 04:15:27 PM

"...kittens drowning in milk, pheasants wandering in freeway lanes, lumberjacks taking chainsaws to chalkboards, firemen burning down their own firehouses, coffee spilled on khakis, rohypnal lip balm, turtles used as bowling balls, wheelchair racing down steep steps, smoking toenails in a bong, wooden sparrows on trees of feathers, forks jabbed in toasters, nobody fed the dog, lightning striking again and again in the same place over and over." - Mark Lewman, 11/6/01

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