Ariana Huffington posted a Things I Want To Forget list for the year 2008.
No doubt, each one of you Kossacks could come up with your own rich list and I'd love to read your own personal choices.
I'm calling it "The Rumpelstiltskin Award Winner of 2008"
A Poll has now been added and contains just some of the hundreds of frequent and annoying words, phrases or people of 2008 as determined by fellow Kossacks.
In the meantime, I burned some brain rubber and came up with my personal list of things I'd like to never see, read, hear (or hear about) in 2009 and I've included it below the fold:
WBRAM'S' List of "Things I Want To Forget"
(in no particular order)
The word "Elitist"
Lunatic gun-clingers
Turkeys, bears and wolves getting the short end of a death battle with Sarah Palin.
Any news story containing the word "Palin."
Religious advisors to politicians.
Southern Senators and Congressman sporting baby blue Sear-Sucker suits and bad comb-overs.
Southern Senators and Congressman!
African American Gun-for-Hire talking heads selling their souls to the Wingnut disinformation machine.
Bill Kristol's opinions (unless they're covering the bottom of my bird's cage)
Celebrity wife murderers
Erectile Dysfunction drug pimping
Joe Lieberman, Phil Gramm, Lindsey Graham and Lindsay Lohan
Anderson Cooper on assignment and waiting for a tragedy (what used to be Geraldo's beat)
Rudy Giuliani ON TV. Fred Thompson OFF TV.
Bottled water on a public dais (sorry, I'm an old-fashioned glass and pitcher man)
The State of Fear. The State of Alaska
The stupid cop and prison shows that fill time on MSNBC.
America's occupation of Anyplace. Rupert Murdoch's occupation of America
Did I mention Bill Kristol and his opinions?
My three dachshunds taking turns pissing on my banister
Again, I'd love to read your personal lists in the comments below.
POLL NOW INCLUDED
Update #1: terry2wa great choice is JT Plumber. I feel like a fool for forgetting him on my list, but as I replied, it's hard for me to even think Mr. Plumber's name without a wave of nausea setting in. He may just turn into our "Rumpelstiltskin Award Winner of 2008. We'll see.
Update #2: "Maverick" is also gaining some strength (thanks kula2316).
"Update #3: myrealname picked "You Betcha!" - Should that come under serious consideration?
"In my opinion... "You Betcha!"
Update #4: Some late but worthy additions not included in the poll below:
I said "Thanks, But No Thanks..."
I can see Russia from my house
Putin rearing his head
Slippery Slope
Bona Fides
Meme
And from Clarknt67 and others comes:
UNDER THE BUS - Clark thinks it's definitely a winner of a loser.
Most of us would agree.
The list goes on and on... and on.
Just think how many stupid thing Sarah Palin said all by herself - and in only two months of campaigning.
This entire Diary could have been all exorcising her witticisms, alone.
What don't YOU ever want to hear again?
Take the poll.