Hackneyed not a hackneyed word

WASHINGTON, D.C. - hack·neyed
Adjective
(of a phrase or idea) Lacking significance through having been overused.

Synonyms
trite - banal - commonplace - threadbare - platitudinous

With so many words, it is surprising that people tend to use the same ones. But we do. Even 'trite' borders on being commonplace. Get it? It's a synonym joke.

Convenience, familiarity, and simplicity are in favor of reusing overused blabber. But The Skillet had a conversation about words (while using words, so meta) that are not overused with a man that uses them daily.

We asked former basketball star Jamal Mashburn if he thought people used the word 'hackneyed' too much.

Know what he said?

"No"

Well there you have it folks. Jamal Mashburn thinks hackneyed is not a hackneyed word. So go ahead, use it today, but not too much. Or else Jamal Mashburn will dunk on your grandmother and sleep with your girlfriend.

Just kidding, Jamal Mashburn respects women.

'Nickelback sucks' now as cool as yelling 'Play Freebird'

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nickelback has risen steadily in popularity since "How You Remind Me" kicked it on TRL's top 10 back in 2001. They have continued on with stellar record sales grossing over 50 million albums worldwide.

But outside the sales, the band has become a target of infamy rather than praise.

'Nickelback sucks' has consequently become a saying as original and funny as heart attacks and clowns. Experts are calling it the new equivalent to yelling 'Freebird' at a concert, which ended its reign of witty things to say at a concert somewhere in the 80's.

'Freebird' or 'Play Freebird' has since been beaten worse than a Rihanna reference. (Double entendre?)

Much like the swift, righteous crowd of groaning after being yelled by The Skillet at a Mountain Goats concert, it is now becoming social contract for groans, sighs, or general complacency to be the 'Nickelback sucks' reflex.

In an attempt to keep negativity moving, social law makers are litigating to stop the piss and vinegar from getting in the holy water. (What?)

Google is being asked to defer searches for 'Nickelback', or 'Nickelback sucks' to recipes for zucchini bread in hopes for a more delicious general public.

This Zucchini Bread Intervention is considered a best-practice anti-hatred campaign based on nothing but the deliciousness of zucchini bread. I mean look at that friggin picture and tell me you don't want some of that.

But it's easy to be reminded of how they really are, being one of the most highly reviled things in current existence.

Public Policy Polling even used Nickelback as a metric of comparison to evaluate the popularity, or lackthereof, of Congress among the American people. Other metrics of comparison used in this nationally distributed report (linked here) were lice, colonoscopies, root canals, and Genghis Khan (a guy who massacred millions of people for pure power).

The contagion of hatred being what it is, Americans have jumped on to the badmouth bandwagon, and many open mic comedy crowds have been the victims of this uninsightful babble.

With the Zucchini Bread Intervention in place, these silly Canadians have reason to be waiting on a different story. Someday, somehow, they might make it right, but not right now.

Until then the power chords of their hearts will be worth breaking just like Rebecca Black's and the Insane Clown Posse's. Even if the zucchini bread doesn't stop people from complaining about Nickelback, you still get zucchini bread. And that's a world worth fighting for.