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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnnoying phrases used by the good people at CNN and MSNBC designed to keep us glued to our seats
"coming up any moment"Translation: anywhere from 30 minutes to 8 hours
"very soon"
Translation: the day after tomorrow
"There's a good chance we'll know by the morning"
Translation: You can finally go on that dream cruise to Barbados and be back in time for whatever the fuck it was that they are going to tell you.
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Annoying phrases used by the good people at CNN and MSNBC designed to keep us glued to our seats (Original Post)
mtnsnake
Nov 2020
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snacker
(3,619 posts)1. Spot on.
Thanks for the laughs.
Tink41
(537 posts)2. Header been changing all day
Saying the same thing 20 different ways.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)3. I'm so old I remember when TV hosts said "Don't touch that dial!"
Yeah, I'm old. I subscribe to the Jack Benny philosophy: Thirty nine and HOLDING.
HOLDING ON HARD.
Wednesdays
(17,362 posts)4. Zoomers: "What's a dial?"
"I only hear the word used as a verb!"
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)5. We had CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS. No UHF stations at all.
In the country you needed a tall antenna to get the VHF stations.
In Houston it was 2, 11 and 13. PBS was channel 8.
Wednesdays
(17,362 posts)11. You can say that again.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)6. We had CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS. No UHF stations at all.
In the country you needed a tall antenna to get the VHF stations.
In Houston it was 2, 11 and 13. PBS was channel 8.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)10. You, too?
Signed,
Lars39
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)7. At least it's not Trump's 'two weeks'
That two weeks is a vortex to nowhere.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)8. Don't forget
Breaking News = you have only heard this 50x already in the past 2-3 hours
Ain't that the truth.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)12. That was what was making me so pissed.
These teasers.