Ode To Andy Rooney: Really?

Andy Rooney may be retired but The 'Crab' is back!
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REALLY?

I created this blog quite awhile ago.

Without commission of course. Really?

I really? want all to feel free to chime in about dogs and pretty much whatever, as this blog originated as a 'Rest In Peace' to my best friend Chicharrone or 'Chich' and a new PIP - Pup in Progress - Panchito Pistoles or 'Pancho...'

My rules: Anything goes.

I will rant often and rave what is often left out.

If I am wrong, please enthrall me with your acumen.

I love to learn how the other side lives.

One of my 'Very Well Respected' mentors once stated that it is unprofessional to use emoticons in professional correspondence.

That may very well be, although I am 'Old School.'

For the record, MiGZ O'Skoo is my nom de plume.

Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' (1918) prescriptive American English writing style guide has been my best friend for the past thirty years.

Emoticons work well for me as I rant from the heart and cannot physically give everyone a hug, nor would I wish to as I have Mysophobia.

Howie Mandel has brought the condition to fame in recent years...

- A Germaphobe although that particular word does not exist.

Really?

What is with this word?

How can one word make me shiver to the bone?

Really?

Seems as if anyone from 20-40 uses this mundane word as: Noun, verb, adjective, prepositional phrase, etc... In all forms of communication as well.

Really?

Yes.

Mayhap a 'knock' on the youngsters, or the 'Generation WTFs..'

Perhaps a definitive 'No.'

Lazy English is one thing.

Using the next 'catch' phrase from 'old' TV shows, like TMI (Too Much Information) and the like just doesn't like cut it.. Like you know like... Weak.. Like Really Like Weak!

'The Police' released a cut off their 'Ghost in the Machine' Studio Album entitled 'Too Much Information' back in 1981.

That was the year I graduated from High School... Am I suddenly in step with the hipsters?

What TV show did everyone start emulating 'TMI' from???

As a survivor of a TBI, I don't remember, I don't recall, someone please help me as I don't have any memory of 'Fill in the blank here...'

Really?

In response to:

How
What
Where
When
Etc...

A new hire
A layoff
A promotion
A termination
Etc...

My balls itch.

Really? TMI. Really?

Popculturemorosereally?

To the extreme.

In the Top 10: Most Overused Words at AskMen.com are:

Love/hate
Whatever
Literally
Seriously
Ridiculous

Number one on the list at AskMen.com was:

'Like'

Accordingly their response follows,

'How this word is still used as a standard in the English language is astounding. People have been using the word like so liberally for the last 15 years that it’s become so commonplace no one even knows when they actually say it. It’s a sixth sense for scores of slang-tongued hipsters.

Originally used as an adjective to describe comparison, its slow and painful conversion to an interjection is now dominating conversations for any Gen X- or Y-er that grew up with two-star-rated (or less) dumb blonde movies. The only saving grace for this word is that when someone uses it too much, people will have no problem calling you out on it and exposing the below-average nature of this verbal ear sore.'

Whew!!! Like WOW!!! Like quite a rant here!!!

'Really?' Did not make the top ten, which is why it pisses me of thrice.

'Nice' and 'Awesome' made numbers two and seven respectively according to AskMen.com.

Barring their banality, I like 'Nice' and 'Awesome.'

They are 'Sweet.'

Really?