Back in the day, before waterboarding was the new black Friday, our government authored a sweet proposition to send a surge of troops into the perfect storm that is iraq. Through careful wordsmithing and many webinars, they organically decimated our post 9/11 economy and led to a pop in canadian currency values. I don't mean to throw them under the bus, but if they could give me back my low cost of poutine, I might get emotional. I guess that's random, but it is what it is.

Rory

I already have three email submissions from (apparently) shy sorts, but your submission is head and shoulders better. I'll keep the contest open a little longer, but you're looking good :-)

Dang! Rory won already - and a valiant effort.

I wonder, Paul, if I added the phrase "Web 2.0" and gave it a try, could I still win the DVD?

Back in the day, before Black Friday (but post 9/11), a sweet wordsmith authored an emotional paean to what he called "the organic webinar". The perfect storm of protest which followed would decimate the blogosphere just as revelations of waterboarding led to a surge of random metaphors, often involving the pop heard when bubble wrap is thrown under the bus. Even Paul Kedrosky decided to give back a large swathe of his archives. "Deleting is the new posting," he declared, before adding, unapologetically, "it is what it is".

Hey Janet -- As much as I would like to include Web 2.0, that would be (ahem) shifting the goalposts, and it wouldn't be fair. Take your best (no 2.0) shot though!

Glad to hear I'm doing well, although I like "Deleting is the new posting" in felix's entry. Web 2.0, moving the goalposts... I think we need another contest to expand the list of overused words. I'd have to nominate "bandwidth" i.e. "I do not have bandwidth to take on any more projects now, I'm swamped." Although maybe that's just overused in my office.

The wordsmith was really under the bus. A perfect storm had ruined his organic webinar. He felt he had so perfectly authored the whole event, but the surge of press for black Friday decimated his sweet emotional appeal to post 9/11 sentiments, causing it all to pop. Maybe if he hadn't been looking to his material from back in the day, but instead remembered that 'X' is the new 'Y', he might have focused more on the random topics and told people to see what they could give back. Instead, everyone said it felt like waterboarding, but, in the end, it is what it is.

Just a quick note - I wrote this before reading the other entries on this page, and then noticed I used several of the words in the same way as others - what does that say about this selection of words? And why is it that everyone ends with it is what it is? Make's me think of Vonnegut - "So it goes.

Wordsmith, ha! Joe Crawford may have authored comments that pop back before black Friday, but post 9/11, he's lucky to participate in a random webinar! He was emotional at the thought of winning that Blade Runner box set. will decimate this surge of entrants! Their organic entries deserve nothing more than waterboarding. It is what it is though, as sure as 'X' is the new 'Y' -- a perfect storm -- I can give back to this website I read, win a lovely Blade Runner DVD, and throw my competition under the bus. "Sweet!"

Borat authored sweet pranks back in the day. The wordsmith would bust organic satire on random celebrities, making it pop and throwing them under the bus. Post 9/11, he rode the perfect storm and his movie surged, decimating the box office. However, after black friday and his latest webinar, he decided to give up the waterboarding and give back with his emotional side. It is what it is, Borat is the new Jim Carrey.

“It is what it is,” the wordsmith sighed as he authored another sweet, organic webinar. "In this post 9/11 world, where “X” is the new “Y”, we must give back the surge of the emotional perfect storm before the random pop of Americans being decimated under the bus of black Friday excesses and waterboarding follies that occurred back in the day."

Given the post 9/11 emotional surge, a perfect storm of so-called authored wordsmithing has leached into modern lexicon. We have been waterboarded into decimating an already organic vocabulary; this era will be known as the Black Friday of our language, the day we threw English under the bus, and harken for the back in the day when old was the new new and when we popped our sub-prime assumptions of random articulations of our now securitized language. Will we be able to give back a language which we never really had? I doubt it - it is what it is.....

Given the post 9/11 emotional surge, a perfect storm of so-called authored wordsmithing has leached into modern lexicon. We have been waterboarded into decimating an already organic vocabulary; this era will be known as the Black Friday of our language, the day the webinar threw English under the bus, and harken for the back in the day when old was the new new and when we popped our sub-prime assumptions of random articulations of our now securitized language. Will we be able to give back a language which we never really had? I doubt it - it is what it is.....

The sun did not shine; It was a perfect storm. We would go waterboarding in the early morn! Black Friday's the new Sunday ecclesiastically. A wordsmith came. He said "Pop, pop, when it's post 9/11, you'll have to stop. Beware the webinar, my sweets, it surges and guffs. Above all, do not ever try to hide under the bus. I've authored a book "It is What It Is," so take my advice: be emotional, give back what you get, and you will find you're organically set." Back in the day of the lotus pad, while the mantis decimates her mate, we would blow random musings, and contemplate our fate.

Back in the day, when waterboarding and a surge generally involved Frankie Avalon, the wordsmith Philip K. Dick authored "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," a dystopian vision like a random walk in a post 9/11 park. Harrison Ford nearly throws the 1982 movie version "Blade Runner" under the bus, showing his usual emotional range of a decimated wind-up toy on Black Friday. It is what it is. Luckily, the organic perfect storm of Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, and Joanna Cassidy give back the vitality and make every scene pop. Sweet! For more see our webinar: "Keanu Reeves is the new Harrison Ford."