Tezza, if you do perform this feat, it must be "benchmarked" of course.... (another on my 'intensely disliked' list)

"It has to be said......." (No it doesn't)

"I am so pleased to be here" (TV presenter.....I bet he/she is for the inflated sum they are being payed)

And middle-aged men who call me "Babe".

Anything less like a babe am I.

A few more to keep the pot boiling:-

"We will play to get a result" (0-0,1-0,0-1......they'e all results for heavens sake)

"I am over the moon" (what's wrong with "very pleased")

"Sick as a parrot" (actually I am not happy, like........had to throw a "like" in)

"There will be redundancies" (you will be sacked, the bosses will remain)

"For customer comfort" (for profit)


Creedy............that include OLD men Babe?

More sporting cliches from post-match interviews (why do they bother?):

The boys put in 110% today.

Yes, we greatly respect our opponents (after thrashing them).

We're not looking towards the finals (play-offs), we're only looking at next week.

We confident X will be available to play next week (despite X being carried off on a stretcher with compound leg fractures and a ruptured spleen)

Team management "We have great confidence in our coach" translates to the coach hurriedly checking the employment section of the newspaper

Mike, have you been listening to those dills on the AFL Footy Show ?
Have to say, "Marngrook" on ABC 2 beats it hands down ! (A much better class of dill !)

Tezza, I only caught on to "Marngrook" towards the end of last season and thought it was great and will definitely watch it again this year. I haven't watched the Footy Show for many years - I got sick of the vicious "humour" and neanderthal attitudes.

For non Aussie Rules supporters, a few more 'sporting' phrases I never want to hear again, but know I will within the next few weeks:

We have to execute the little things a little better (well, actually executing some of the players might be a start!)

He (she) was on fire tonight...

The game was the winner (i.e. YOU lost)

Often weathermen/women mention a "rain event". This sounds like something you should run out and buy tickets for.

"Closure" gets on my nerves too. Frequently the police use this word to describe a family's expected reaction to the resolution of a terrible crime. Wounds caused by murder, death and other crimes never close.

Being a crafter I spend a fair amount of time with a craft channel on television being on, either being watched or more often in the background so that I can go and watch something which sounds interesting.

I find that the presenters can use some very strange words and expressions and some really annoys me like 'colourise, colourising and colourised', what is wrong with colour, colouring, coloured?

Well, here in Arkansas, the use of the letter "u" in the word color. But I'm no crafter, just crafty. LOL.

I agree with you though that, all too often, television personalities (presenters in your world) try to sound hoity-toity. meh. You just go on and colour instead of coulourise.

I'll just splash some paint on something and say, "well, that's just plain ugly!" LOL

Cheers!


-- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Our children and our childrens children. You mean our children and our grandchildren?

That's how you spell it, colour

In sport, 'it's a game of two halves' (unless you're American of course. In which case it's a game of four quarters )

Ok, so not ALL the idiot sports commentators are in Australia !
1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model:
"I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate me."

2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:

"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."

3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skin's say:

"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,"

Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."

4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:

"He treat us like mens. He let us wear earrings."

5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh:

"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."

(Now that is beautiful)

7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:

"You guys line up alphabetically by height."

And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, and then line up in a circle."

8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:

"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."


9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:

"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."



10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is."



11. Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:

"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)



12. Frank Layden , Utah Jazz president, on a former player:

"I asked him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?'

He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"



13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D:

"Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."



14. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:

"I can go to my left or right, I am amphibious."



15. Former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips,

Phillips responded: "Because she's too ugly to kiss good-bye."

I think a few of those coaches and player would have the "full support of the board" or they could be "embattled". Bother terms only mean one thing... they're getting sacked any day now!