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Here's the mouth of the horse. http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2003.phpI'm going to submit "Banished Words List" for their 2004 list.
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I'm going to submit "Banished Words List" for their 2004 list 
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The 'black ice' from Faldage's link bothered me as a problem a year ago and still bothers me. It is a most excellent word--descriptive, accurate in terms of what to avoid, and malevolent-sounding enough to strike us with a serious warning. Anyone who has traveled down winding country roads on freezing mornings who has been warned about black ice must be grateful for such a term because as the headlights illuminate the dark road and that glistening shining patch of patent-leather appearing ice comes into sight, one thinks: Black ice! And will slow down even more to avoid the deadly consequences of not doing so. I know of too many paraplegic, quadraplegic, and death episodes to think of that ice as anything but black ice.
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Er, DavidFaldage, not to pick a nit, but your link is the mouth of last year's horse. The new one is dated 2004 - so your nomination will go to the 2005 edition of the "Banished Words List." 
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Good thing you weren't picking a nit, nancyk. It's a little early to be posting a list of banished words from 2004.
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I don't mind the word black-ice either. Ice isn't always the same.
You have that crunchy ice that has had salt poured on it, unfrozen, then frozen again, so it's not as slippery. And ice patches and ice over unfrozen potholes...but black ice is different.
Black ice is deceptively easy to mistake as wet pavement. It is a sheet of extremely clear glass over the road that you just don't see, and is so smooth that you can just slide through stop signs and red lights.
I know you're supposed to be careful when driving, but a black-ice advisory is always useful to help you keep that extra eye out.
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Peel and eat shrimp: You could always think you should peel and cook.
Mental mistake: The other kind is physical.
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It's a little early to be posting...2004Maybe so, but: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.phpObviously didn't stop the folks at LSSU from doing exactly that.
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Right you are nancyk. My bad. Is that one on anyone's list?
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BLACK ICE -- From the weather and news reports. Ice is ice. Watch your step. “Ice is usually clear and shiny when you see the black pavement through it.” Robert Irving, Tahoe City, California
They're a little late to the game. I was first told the term and had it explained when taking car driving lessons way back in 1947 !
It is a dangerous thing and too often found in northern states when roads have been cleared but moisture and freezing temps combine to form that thin sheet of translucent ice on the black macadam. Can't remember ever seeing or experiencing it on concrete roadways. Hmmmmm.
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You know Wow, I've never seen it on concrete either. I wonder if it isn't because concrete isn't as smooth as pavement.
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Peel and eat shrimp: You could always think you should peel and cook.
...or cook and peel after...or already peeled.
Mental mistake: The other kind is physical.
The body without the mind attached is one big mistake!
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I must choose "got game" as the most annoying.
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Maybe so, but:
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php
yeahbut® ~ why're they soliciting for nominations for last year's list?!
"LSSU accepts nominations for the Word Banishment list throughout the year. To submit your nomination for the 2003 list, go to www.lssu.edu/banished." [e.a]
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As for such gems as "must see tv" and "hand-crafted latte," these are advertising hype and will last as long as the serve their purpose, to be replaced by another as bad or worse. Banishing these would be as successful as King Canute's exhortations against the tide.
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Love that site. Have you ever been to Cleethorpes and Grimsby? Grimsby is the word, its on Humberside, where no man should ever have made his home. I remember going when I was a kid: the castle's a fake, the donkeys are suicidal and the Humber smells of rotten fish and burning plastic. Eeeuuww. Incidentally, it's neighbour, Hull, just featured at number one in a book entitled Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK
to pick an obvious nit, King Canute was neither English (well, it's all a bit fluid isn't it but he was Viking) nor overcome with vanity, he was trying to prove to his courtiers that nature was not at his command, hence the business with the wet ankles... which I'm sure you all know cos of the big braininess and mighty google-fingers, okay, shutting up now
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The concept of "English" is not particularly useful when applied to the time of King Canute: neither as a language nor as an ethnic identity.
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