Judge&Jury gifted me with a ’91 collection of Groening’s Life in Hell strips, which contains one of his regular bits, a list of Forbidden Words – words of the moment that he wants to never hear again.
Here are excerpts from the list in the collection. This list is from the end of 1989, attempting to blacklist a bunch of words for the coming decade. As ever, it’s an intriguing snapshot of the times that were.
Betamax
Bimbo
Cassingle
Celebutante
Chill out
Croissandwich
Cyberpunk
Dancercize
Def
D.I.N.K
Dramedy
Eclectic
Hypertext
Hyper anything
Infotainment
Jazzercize
Liposuction
Male bonding
Neo-Geo
Neo anything
Networking
Passive-aggressive
Peacekeeper missile
Politically correct
Power breakfast
Power lunch
Quality time
Robo anything
Significant other
Spokesmodel
Synthpop
Tubular
Ultra anything
Vidiot
Wilding
Workaholic
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Better watch out for the Tubular Neo-Ultra-Hyper-Robo-Cyberpunk chilling out with a crossandwich!
Better watch out for the Tubular Neo-Ultra-Hyper-Robo-Cyberpunk chilling out with a crossandwich!
Better watch out for the Tubular Neo-Ultra-Hyper-Robo-Cyberpunk chilling out with a crossandwich!
Better watch out for the Tubular Neo-Ultra-Hyper-Robo-Cyberpunk chilling out with a crossandwich!
Better watch out for the Tubular Neo-Ultra-Hyper-Robo-Cyberpunk chilling out with a crossandwich!
We are so in trouble, in the 90s
I had a list of nowish hated words formed somewhere but I forget.
Interactive, extreme, and actually were among the featured
Oh yeah, Virtual and virtually were on it as well
innovative.
Synergy
Syzygy.
yummy mummy
sanguine, choleric, melancholy and phlegmatic personality types