I told you not to say that!

The Unicorn Hunters of Lake Superior State University have published their annual list of words and phrases that should be banished due to overuse and misuse. On this year's list are: shovel-ready, Obamacare and similar uses of Obama as a prefix, czar (actually been used in this manner since 1919), stimulus, toxic asset (isn't this simply a liability?), too big to fail, and more. In the category of verbing innocent nouns is friend, an action used in Facebook, when befriend would do just fine.

It appears the same media that reports on the list every year otherwise ignores it. Over the 34 years of publishing the list some words have had to be banned 2 and 3 times. And the phrase "for the children" was banned back in 2000, though it didn't have it's anti-gay connections.