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You might have noticed that: Trumpsky has favorite words in his limited vocabulary "Believe it" and "YUGE" are redundancies in his formulary But TV Talking Heads have their own words too When one has an unusual word the others follow anew "Hacking" of course has been around overly long And rolls quite easily off a Talking Head's tongue "War room" of late is an expression often heard Talking Heads like it and accept another two-fer word They've concluded "filter" is quite acceptable to use It fits in nicely when explaining a deception or ruse They've pushed "Walk It Back", "Pivot" and "Double Down " To the back of the church where no prayer books are found But "animus" and "leak" have an edge with an exotic sound That's why they now insert them in every lengthy speech When their Thesauri of Lexicons are quite out of reach But users are reminded "verbum sapienti satis est" "A word to the wise" is all that's needed and is the best

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Date: 6/6/2017 6:12:00 PM
This is really fun - a poem that needed to be written! Funny how cliche words last a while and go away.
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 6/6/2017 6:39:00 PM
I'm glad you agree and thanks for your comment SW. I've noticed that they'll all use certain words for awhile, then a new one happens and off they go, one to the other. It would be funny if it was not so annoying
Date: 6/6/2017 5:44:00 PM
Haha, a great read, Elizabeth! Thanks
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White Wolf
Date: 6/6/2017 5:51:00 PM
I've smashed a computer but no TV, YET!!!
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 6/6/2017 5:48:00 PM
Thanks WW. Sometimes I'd like to pull an Elvis and destroy the TV when I hear words over and over. :-))
Date: 6/6/2017 5:41:00 PM
This was fun Elizabeth but you forgot "Unnamed Source" That term seems to be all the rage. :)
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Chris Green
Date: 6/6/2017 5:51:00 PM
It would be a best seller. :)
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 6/6/2017 5:45:00 PM
Well I sure did, didn't' I. I guess instead of a poem, I should write a book about the inanities of talking heads. Thanks Chris.

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