The Bus and Shark Micro-poll

I hope that I don't get into some kind of micro-copyright trouble with Mark "Micro" Penn for conducting this.  Does he have a license on micro-polling micro-trends, or just on using them to drive campaigns into a ditch?

Every now and then public consciousness and repetition will converge at a given point in time, and phrases become very popular.  Insanely popular.  Annoyingly popular.  OMGSTFU!!! popular. Phrases like "Not!" or "Where's the beef?" or "Go fuck yourself."  I believe that a certain phrase, oft repeated this Primary season, has skidded down the hill of acceptable use and now teeters on the edge of Ad Nauseum Gorge.

In a recent thread it was mentioned for approximately the 543,671,215^th time that somebody "threw X under the bus." My response to this was to suggest we throw the phrase "throw X under the bus" under the bus.  Yoshimi then nominated the phrase "jumped the shark" for similar termination, which isn't nearly as common as bus-throwing these days, but certainly could stand a swift, merciful termination.

The only problem is, now we have multiple worn-out phrases to dispose of, and also multiple means of disposal at hand! That creates a phraseological conundrum, right there!  Whatever is an inane poster to do?

Well . . . hack out a diary and self-commission their own micro-poll, of course.  So without further ado, please help us decide the most appropriate sendoff:

•  Questions, comments, bean dip?

  It is late, and I really should have more productive things to do . . . like sleep.

  ;-)

  by Praxxus on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 08:29:52 PM PDT

•  Die Moritat von Mackie Messer

  Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear,
  And he shows them pearly white
  Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear
  And he keeps it out of sight.

  by palantir on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 08:35:59 PM PDT

•  irrational exuberance

  For some reason it makes me gleeful to see "I like turtles" with 100% of the vote.  I sure hope no one else votes in this poll.  Personally I don't have any problem with those particular cliches.

  by Duncan Idaho on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 08:37:14 PM PDT

  •  Just to clarify the inspiration for that option:

    by Praxxus on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 08:39:15 PM PDT

  •  oops sorry

    I like pie.

    by woodstock007 on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 11:00:45 PM PDT

•  The grizzly bear

  Is huge and wild
  It has devoured the infant child
  The infant child
  is not aware
  It has been eaten
  By the bear

  by woodstock007 on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 10:59:42 PM PDT