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Is "weird" the most overused word in the English language? I sure say it a lot, at least.

What is weird?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann voted sexiest male newscaster in Playgirl poll
NEW YORK (AP) — The countdown to the No. 1 sexiest male newscaster ends with ... Keith Olbermann — at least according to a Playgirl magazine online poll.
The host of MSNBC’s nightly Countdown with Keith Olbermann had linked his Web site to the Playgirl Web site and urged viewers to vote for him. The strategy worked: he came away the winner with 24 percent of the 50,000 votes cast.
“Voter turnout was phenomenal,” Michele Zipp, the magazine’s editor in chief, said Monday. “Our readers jammed our e-mail server extolling the virtues of all those sexy news guys on TV.”
Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity came in second and Anderson Cooper of CNN was third. Andy Rooney of CBS’s 60 Minutes — who’s 85 — tied for fifth place with the boyish Bill Hemmer from CNN. And Fox’s Bill O’Reilly received about 200 write-in votes.
Complete results will be listed in the October issue.
As winner, Olbermann won’t be taking it all off in Playgirl’s pages — but he will choose a charity to receive $2,500 US on his behalf.

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear "cool" and "cute" more often than "weird".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

NSFW

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And Fox’s Bill O’Reilly received about 200 write-in votes.

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear "cool" and "cute" more often than "weird".

...although not in regards to myself, in which case i DO hear "weird" used often.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a stronger word for "weird" that can be reserved specifically for occasions that really are, uh, weird? Like a UFO abduction or something?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/941/200/941_2_7.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bizarre

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't see it, but that comic has a cover date of May, 1953!

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"weird" is no "like"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I use cute entirely too often. I've been avoiding cool because it feels outdated.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I never, ever use "cute."

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's ok, Huk. I use your "cute"s for you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually stockpiling them for the coming shortage. I'll make out like a bandit!

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

nice

― sexyDancer, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Please, people, this thread is about "WEIRD."

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

nice

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Chill, dude. Quit stressing the H-Man. The H-Man doesn't like to be stressed.

xpost

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

prononcing "weird" "wee-urd" ... as in some nickelodeon detective show... is classic.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread isn't very weird. In fact, it's pretty typical.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

xxpost Stop calling yourself the H-Man. Start calling yourself The Dude.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.funny-funny-pictures.com/dp/files/1-116.jpg

NOW is it weird??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's like cute.

― briania (briania), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeh, it's pretty cool.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, you know what people don't say enough? "Fresh!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Unheimlich.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

A wee bit weird

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I suspect that "odd" and "queer" would've been used in the past in many of the instances where the stronger, more other-worldly "weird" is used today. "Queer" has definitely changed its meaning. I think "odd" probably has too and so the usage of "weird" has expanded to include that which is strange in any way rather than implying an unearthly or supernatural strangenes.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a stronger word for "weird" that can be reserved specifically for occasions that really are, uh, weird? Like a UFO abduction or something?
Fucked up.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Uncanny is traditional, as is the German more-or-less equivalent that I posted above. 'Weird' used to mean a spell or chant, I think.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I intend to use "eldritch" a lot more

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh nice one.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I intend to use "eldritch" a lot more

-- Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), September 14th, 2004.

Didn't do me any bleeding good. Hey, James Whale, gimme me fookin' shoes back!

― Wayne Hussey, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Where does "weird" come from? What language did we get it from?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Scots, I believe. So Gaelic in origin?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

weird - O.E. wyrd "fate" (n.), from P.Gmc. *wurdis. The modern sense developed from M.E. use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Gmc. mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were usually portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth," which led to the adj. meaning "odd-looking, uncanny," first recorded 1815. Weirdo is from 1955

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Very little in "Scots" is from Gaelic is pretty much all English

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What I meant to say is that if you're referring to the Scots dialect then it is a dialect of English and has nothing much to do with Gaelic

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Unheimlich me, you rascal! The frisky bolus was expelled from my trachea a good thirty seconds ago!"

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not going to post the album cover of OMC.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

ok first of all, this thread contains vintage nick-and-sarah
that alone is notable

but i bumped thread because i got an email from a student in which he said his blog was "weird", by which apparently he means "smutty"

just wanted to document this additional usage of "weird"

― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Friday, 5 November 2010 05:12 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

November is coming again

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:43 (eleven years ago)

Ha, I remember that student but fortunately my mind has not retained anything about his blog.

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 13:56 (eleven years ago)

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