Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Cliche watch: Reports of the death of "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" have been greatly exaggerated



I've been seeing this one way too much lately. Please join me in helping to stamp this out:

Television: Reports of My Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Reports of radio's death are greatly exaggerated

Reports of the death of record stores have been greatly exaggerated

Reports of Sarah Palin Career Death Greatly Exaggerated

Reports of the Death of the Episcopal Church are Greatly Exaggerated

Reports of investment banking's death seem greatly exaggerated

Rumors of Glenda's demise had been greatly exaggerated

Reports of Blockbuster's death are (somewhat) exaggerated (At least there's a minor twist.)

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of journalism have been greatly exaggerated

The death of Miley Cyrus' "Hannah Montana" career have been greatly exaggerated

News of economy’s death greatly exaggerated

Turns out the reports of the play's demise were greatly exaggerated

Reports of the Croatian doc's demise were greatly exaggerated

Any reports of the death of roars around Augusta National are highly exaggerated

The death of the small town has been widely exaggerated

Somehow I think the reports of the end of the American newspaper have been greatly exaggerated too

Reports of the death of the Internet have been greatly exaggerated*

*An oldie, from a previous post. It was the third time I noticed this old saw used in as many days, and triggered this post. Once I started looking, it was everywhere. Rounded up w/ the help of a Google News search.

1 comment:

Qaro said...

But it's not even funny without the "my"! See THAT's what makes it funny...

Okay, is there like a new program to write headlines or something? You type in "Death" and it searches through all the quotes and cliches and spits out a list:

...and taxes.
...are greatly exaggerated.
...warmed over.
sick to...

It's Google isn't it?