The interwebs? Bloggy goodness? Don't know about you, but I've had it up to the back teeth with both terms. They're an insidious pair, the way they've managed to slither through the blogosphere. I've even used interweb myself, I'm ashamed to confess - but that was by accident, it won't happen again. The internet is perfectly acceptable phraseology, as is the web. And anything is better than bloggy goodness. What a frightful term.
How did these deplorable terms gain currency? How does anything rank gain currency? Event Television, for instance. I blame young people.
On more important news, Botha has been suspended for chucking.
Hurr Hurr Hurr.
Can the Yarpies sink any lower?
Posted by: Mr Z | 08 February 2006 at 14:23
I've been known to use the colloquial 'interwebnet' as a form of derogatory terminology.
I unreservedly apologise for this offence to your delicate sensibilities and have offered my entrails to the crows as atonement for my sin.
Posted by: CB | 08 February 2006 at 15:37
Zed: Botha chucks, does he? I thought he must have had a bent arm. Sorth Efrica's tour has finisned in the toilet, but I can't help thinking they'll be a handful over there.
CB: Sarcastic usage is fine as long as it is not accompanied by smiley faces. Nevertheless, I've got the carrion birds at the ready.
Posted by: Tony.T | 08 February 2006 at 16:12
The one I hate is "blogosphere" or "'sphere". I admit I used it a couple of times back in my early blogging days (i.e. six months ago), but now simply refer to blogs collectively as the Super League of Blog Justice. It makes about as much sense, and has a certain dramatic ring to it.
Posted by: Tim | 08 February 2006 at 18:10
Agreed, Tim. And apart from the fact I don't like either of those terms, there is something inherently unpleasant about sphere.
Posted by: Tony.T | 08 February 2006 at 18:28
One can never go wrong by blaming young people. I know I do.
Blame them, not go wrong.
Posted by: anne | 08 February 2006 at 19:21
"...bloggy goodness"
Never heard it before.
Sounds like the after effects of a good curry and a six pack.
Posted by: peemil | 08 February 2006 at 21:56
Blaming youth is my job, Anne.
Peemil, that's "bloggy badness".
Posted by: Tony.T | 08 February 2006 at 23:01
As well as the young kiddies it's actually the internet itself -- or interwebs as it were. Kids and interweb: roots of all evil.
Posted by: Ed | 08 February 2006 at 23:31
Talking of Sphere, did that Merzbow CD ever turn up?
Posted by: hungbunny | 09 February 2006 at 06:34
Mang, lingo is the l337ness!
ppl gotta know wot the score is, d00d
wear you iz and how u wanna cum akross..
kids and uvva wankers get all lingoey cos they have no sense ov intrinzic pursarnal power.
dey feal dat langwahje is some sorta kostume that sorts out da peers...dawg
iv dey tawk in reel inglish den dey wisk soundin lyke,
well,
they would sound like ignorant fucking arseholes.
the word is: intermaneticistismistticnessthingy, mang.
rokk on!!
Posted by: Bear Wabbit | 09 February 2006 at 06:36
I said beardy goodness a few days ago. Yes, I'm ashamed.
Posted by: gav | 09 February 2006 at 09:41
You are teh hottness, Tone.
Posted by: The Hack | 09 February 2006 at 13:48
www.marccooper.com/ claims to have initiated 'blogosphere'.
I like BlogNation - issat OK?
Posted by: Brownie | 09 February 2006 at 18:27
I’m sick of the word “trousers”. I’ve had it to the back teeth with people talking about their fucking “trousers” all the time. How did this deplorable term gain currency?
Posted by: Harry Hutton | 10 February 2006 at 00:52
Ed: Kids ARE evil. I'm a teacher, I know.
HB: You owe me. When I played Sphere the paint peeled off the wall.
Bear: Never a true werd written.
Gav: I would be ashamed, too. AND queasy.
Hack: They don't call me Tony Teh for nothing.
Brownie: Blognation I can handle. This week.
Harry: What a load of pants!
Posted by: Tony.T | 10 February 2006 at 07:39
You didn’t respond to a single one of my points, but instead you write a baseless ad homonomom attack. ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF FREE SPEECH OR NOT? Yes or no?
Posted by: Harry Hutton | 10 February 2006 at 09:11
Free speech: root of all evil.
Posted by: Ed | 10 February 2006 at 10:50
Is 'internerd' unacceptable?
Posted by: carneagles | 10 February 2006 at 11:15
H: Yes AND no. If it's me speeching it - yes.
E: See H.
C: Yes.
Posted by: Tony.T | 10 February 2006 at 11:18
Thanks for clearing that up, man. Sorry I yelled at you.
I was just reading some political blogs. They're all like that. Except that I forgot to accuse you of racism.
Posted by: Harry Hutton | 10 February 2006 at 14:05
Wot a wanker. I bet you want to ban the word "troll" too.
You PC Commissars are draining the interwebs of all their bloggy goodness.
Posted by: Nabakov | 10 February 2006 at 15:58
Tone, I won't respect you as a blogger until you write regular and witty posts about your search string hits and visitor stats.
Posted by: Ed | 10 February 2006 at 16:19
Harry Hutton - I like anything that I don't have to pay for.
Speech included.
Posted by: bear wabbit | 11 February 2006 at 09:46
Sorry Tone, I stepped out of the office for two secs and ended up on the hill under the scoreboard at Adelaide. Which is strange, seeing as I don't live anywhere near the place.
Posted by: CB | 11 February 2006 at 18:47
All modams connected too each othar so to yuo could palay DuKE NUKAM 3D AND GET TEH SHRINK RAY MICORWAVE GUN!!! I shrank teh Pig Cop into a tiny hog and stepped on him and SAW A STRIPPAR!!!
ps: Cool people spell it "intarweb".
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 12 February 2006 at 22:20