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You must remember this
A list is still a list, a strike is just a strike
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
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No problem to comply with what you sy A halve day wide awake am I let banners and the words pass by. 
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A few of these picked non-randomly:
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GONE/WENT MISSING
Long time British slang. If it's caught on in the greater Anglophonic world it's because communication has improved due to the influence of the world wide web and many people find it more expressive than just plan "missing". Sorry if getting yourself elected CinC doesn't help on this one. Maybe thinking of England won't either. Tough.
On behalf of the 400 million or so English speakers whose flavour of choice is NOT American English, I thank you, M. Fong. Although I have long disliked this annual list simply for its prescriptivism, I have come to look upon it with more active antipathy for its assumption of the existence of "one true, Holy, and wholly American, English". If an idiomatic usage is not common in the US, it is, ipso facto incorrect, and to beviewed as an abomination. This viewpoint is deeply ingrained in many speakers of US English, so I salute the Fool for standing up against the twin evils of prescriptivism and cultural hegemony. As many English speakers in my part of the world would say, "kapai, mate!"
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Such words from you, my dear M. Quordlepleen, are armo(u)r against the nattering of all the nabobs in the neighbo(u)rhood.
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Hey Faldage...fool.
Would you please go tell TJMax that I agree that banning words is foolish.
Free expression is fundamental to the well being of mankind.
You go tell him, I can't. I am on his banned list.
Milo
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Hey Faldage...fool.
Would you please go tell TJMax that I agree that banning words is foolish.
Free expression is fundamental to the well being of mankind.
You go tell him, I can't. I am on his banned list.
Milo
If he's still around. He's been busy elsewhere these days.
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