A Saying Goes Out Of Style The Minute It's Uttered by Katie Couric

[matcom]

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When Lance Armstrong's LIVESTRONG bracelets appeared out of nowhere a few years ago, the campaign was a classic win-win: The Tour de France champion and testicular cancer survivor's yellow band raised tens of millions of dollars for cancer research -- while improving the karma of a nearly equal number of consumers.

And then, practically overnight, charity transformed into must-have fashion accessory. Take a short walk down Market Street in San Francisco today, and you can find orange and green silicone bracelets that say SAN FRANCISCO, tie-dyed ones with the words PEACE and GROOVY and less tasteful items stamped with PLAYBOY and UP YOURS -- all of the above benefiting nothing more than the opportunistic companies that printed the 10-cent rubber bands and jacked up the price to $3.

Which brings us to the following question, one that can be custom-ordered and printed at several create-your-own-wristband Web sites: IS EVERY GOOD IDEA

With fads spreading faster than ever in this media-consuming culture, we've managed to screw up just about everything that was once cool. Over the years, overexposure has systematically ruined the black "in mourning" symbol on basketball jerseys, the shouting of "Free Bird" as a rock-concert request and practically every line of dialogue from the movie "Napoleon Dynamite." Even the AIDS ribbon reached the saturation point in the 1990s -- "Seinfeld" devoted an entire episode to making fun of its ubiquity.

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Depending on the trend, it can be easy to figure out when overexposure has set in. Language overkill has become especially easy to figure out in recent years -- just follow the Katie Couric Rule of Lexicon Demolition: A saying goes out of style at the precise moment when "Today" host Couric uses it for the first time.

For example: "For shizzle" was ruined at about 8:35 a.m. Dec. 9, 2003, when Couric uttered the phrase during an interview with Fran Drescher. And "bling" lost its bling a little after 8 p.m. Oct. 16, 2003, when Couric used the term incorrectly -- "talk about bling-bling-bling, man" -- to describe a diamond ring.


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[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. Poor Katie is a cultural pariah

destroying great phrases like "bling-bling" and "live-strong" :sarcasm:

in fact, please keep it up katie...

[peekaloo]

2. Does that mean the Navy Seals don't RAWK?

:shrug:

[underpants]

3. Katie: Hated by the left hated by the right .....LOVED down the middle

;-) :applause: :P :loveya:



How about Katie playing cheerleader?




BTW- Katie sister Emily was a very prominent Va. Dem and was chair of the state party before she died of cancer.

[no name no slogan]

4. So, does that mean "perky" is no longer cool, too?

Damn. I've been working on my "perky" lately.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Perky is out

But brownnosing suckass is still very much in!

[no name no slogan]

7. woohoo!!! There's still hope!

:7

[underpants]

6. PErky is NEVER out

[no name no slogan]

9. Give me a "P", give me an "E", ...

:P

[jane_pippin]

8. Nobody makes me more uncomfortable in the morning than her.

The gratuitous colon shots, the perky singing, the idiotic catch-phrases she doesn't understand, the attempts at serious interviews, the self-involvement, the stepping on co-host's lines, the Halloween costumes, (and as an aside, please tell me they're dressed up today as they report on both Miers and the CIA case. It would be so fitting for this bunch of all-stars.), the cackling--always the maddening cackling--and the barely masked combination of wonder and contempt she has for the oh so precious subjects of "Today throws a Wedding" and other such insipid pap.

I used to watch her just to get wound up in the morning. Now I watch CNN because Miles O'Brien is completely insane, which I find amusing.

[HUGH McSERIES]

10. Screw Star Trek - I've looked up Katie Couric's butt