"Pain at the Pump"

[RollTide98]

Can we just go on and put a moratorium on this phrase?

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

Only if Parents quit having their worst nightmares.

[wx or not]

Can we just go on and put a moratorium on this phrase?
Hmmm, Pain at the Pump....
I'm at a loss, then. What other way is there to say "why does it hurt when I pee?";)

[RollTide98]

Hmmm, Pain at the Pump....
I'm at a loss, then. What other way is there to say "why does it hurt when I pee?";)

OK... For you, and you only, the moratorium is lifted.

But for any reporter putting together yet another gas story, STOP SAYING IT!

[Mighty Dyckerson]

How about Nuisance at the Nozzle?

[Produce man]

"Pain at the Pump"? Isn't that how Dickerson describes the hand cramps he gets after a night of passion?

[Mighty Dyckerson]

"Pain at the Pump"? Isn't that how Dickerson describes the hand cramps he gets after a night of passion?


Your jokes might be amusing if they actually made sense.

:moon:

[News Is Broken]

Only if Parents quit having their worst nightmares.

And if rain clouds stop producing "wet stuff".

[Brain Cramp]

I'm waiting for the electric car or biodegradable fuel story that begins ...

Mary Jones is passing gas ... and plugging in her car instead! :cool:

[News Is Broken]

I'm waiting for the electric car or biodegradable fuel story that begins ...

Mary Jones is passing gas ... and plugging in her car instead! :cool:

Come on, we all know that this story will begin like this:

"Mary Jones, like many Americans, recently traded in her gas powered car for an electric one. But could the nation's switch from octane to ohms turn pain at the pump into pain at the PLUG?"

[Spike]

I happened to catch a bit of a local newscast yesterday and heard the anchor say, "Some area drivers are feeling the Pain at the Pump--literally!" I was expecting to see some hard hitting story about people having the nozzle jammed up their asses by angry gangs of roving pedestrians, but instead the story was just a regular gas price story, about how gas prices were cutting into people's budgets, and had nothing to do with literal pain.

How about Nuisance at the Nozzle?

Now I really want to see that used in a news story.

[The Mockingbird]

From teh Mockingbird on June 18, 2008, in a post advising reporters on things to never, ever, do: :eek:

2) Use the phrase "Pain at the Pump". This could probably have been included in the first point, but it kills the whole smarmy list theme.

This particular phrase is so awful that if terrorists were concerned about kitsch instead of the subjugation of Western Culture, there would not be a CW station that does news that did not have fuselage jutting out of it. I'm just saying, for the love of God, sometimes, you don't have to alliterate. Really.

[Another OMB]

I happened to catch a bit of a local newscast yesterday and heard the anchor say, "Some area drivers are feeling the Pain at the Pump--literally!" I was expecting to see some hard hitting story about people having the nozzle jammed up their asses by angry gangs of roving pedestrians, but instead the story was just a regular gas price story, about how gas prices were cutting into people's budgets, and had nothing to do with literal pain.



Now I really want to see that used in a news story.

I don't know if you've heard of it, Spike, but there's a website about the misuse of the word "literally" like the one you cited. Too many in the media are guilty of its misuse. It's driving me insane! (not literally).

http://literally.barelyfitz.com/

[Sigonfile]

I like, He had to pay $4 to pump Ethel last night.