"Obscenely" Something or Another

In Chicago, we grew up using a number of unusual phrases which my wife had never heard, growing up in Northern Indiana, not even 200 miles away.

"Bring that tool with" was definitely one. Strange one was Popsicles, Dreamsicles, and Fudgisicles. No Chicago-born person we have asked, says "Fudgisicles". It's pronounced as though the "s" was not there. Amazing! In Phoenix, my wife had a Chicago-born salesman, one day he checked in with her, she said, Mitch, what were those chocolaty ice cream bars
called in Chicago? No hesitation, "Fudgicles"! imp
 
"My Bad" as opposed to just a plain ole "I'm sorry" absolutely bugs me to death.



'My bad'....I suppose a simple 'I'm sorry' is too hard to do. Maybe they find 'my bad' a little less personally humiliating. Doesn't bug me all that much, but I certainly understand your feeling about it because I have my own problem words and phrases.

Isn't it odd how we can let a simple little phrase bother us so much? Focussing on the trivial a little too much.
 
Lately, the news-clips attached to home-pages use this phrase far too often, and I have quit looking.

This is "obscenely-beautiful".....

"obscenely-different"....

"obscenely-moving"....

"obscenely-important"......

This trend has made me "obscenely-sick" of the term. imp
It's truly Imponderable...
 
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