Word: uh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these silly particulars don't make too much of a difference, do they? On Wednesday, Harvard beat the you-know-what out of the Fairfield, uh, whatever its team name is. (The Ants? The Fighting Midgets? Your guess is as good as mine...
...Called Life." About: Life as viewed by a 15-year-old girl. Criticisms: the lifestyle of a bisexual was treated "approvingly," teen sex of both types was driving force behind the show. Gee, how completely inaccurate. Teens these days never think about sex. Uh-uh. All those teen pregnancies? Made up to scare us. The Media Research Center made a big error in its assessment of the show, incidentally--according to the Center, on the show "abstinence was not a choice." Wrong. The main character--the one everyone knew, identified with, turned in to see--chose not to sleep with...
...first time I heard the demo, I thought 'Uh-oh, the Monkees,'" says PHIL SOLEM, one-half of the pop duo the Rembrandts. He was listening to a tape of the theme song for a TV show called Friends, which he and Danny Wilde had been asked to record. But after they added their two cents to the song, he got to like it. So did a Nashville disk jockey, who put the 42-second clip from the hit show on the air. The resulting clamor convinced the heretofore subcult-following duo that they ought to add the song...
...Uh...well, I'm not sure what to say. I'm glad you are pleased with the results, but I'm terribly sorry about the Ad Board thing. I should have put a disclaimer on the recipe: Beware, this much peach schnapps can cause drunkenness. Hey, maybe you didn't really want to go to law school anyway...
...Uh-oh! You've just insulted someone's ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation and/or hinted the President might be in physical danger if he visits your state. Now what? A simple "Whoops!" won't cut it anymore, not when modern masters have elevated the post-gaffe backpedal into a sophisticated rhetorical art. Confused? Intimidated? Just follow these rules...