OT: Pet peeves.

[Dave Munger]

I'm developing a bit of a rage problem with the scratching record sound effect used to indicate that something is amiss, especially in radio ads. "Hey I'm gonna make out with this hot chick, SSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTCH!!!! Oh, no, it's really a guy!!!" I'm very greatful that Geiko ads don't use this. "He thought one thing was going to happen...
SSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTCH!!!! Something ELSE happened instead!!!" It's ubiquitous! "We set this guy up on a reality show with one premise SSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTCH!!!! But it turns out the premise of the show is actually totally different from that!" Another what that they do this is SSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTCH!!!! Instead of giving another example he made a link to his blog! http://davemunger.blogspot.com Anyway, I figured I'd start a peeve thread so that I could put that right up on top SSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTCH!!!! But really I'm doing it for some other reason!!!

[mr. henry]

this is my 50 cents on issue, i feel....uh oh....SSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTCH!!!!

"When the pigs try to get at ya
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot"
- S N double-o P, D O double-G

"why do you want to shoot squirrels?"
"because they're gay"
- the rockhead in CABIN FEVER

[trekgeezer]

Chill Dave, this sorta s**t is so prevelant nowadays that it will kill you if you stress over it too much.

[Flangepart]

Yeah, and what about scarecrows brain?

[Master Blaster]

At least that damn "Who let the dogs out" fad is over. I thought I was going to have to ram icepicks in my ears.

[reagan]

But that movie "the Guru" seemed to trying to bring the 'Macarena' back in. Thank badness it didn't work!

[Ozzymandias]

As a person in the radio industry I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE. Lendingtree.com is the worst offender. Also Geico's "...but I have good news" series has gotten very old.
Another one is that one for Mega Life insurrance where you hear a radio being tuned followed by what sounds like a pollitician giving a speech saying "What America needs is afordable health insurance." It is still running and the election has been over for a month now! Make a new ad. That one was stupid to begin with.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Argh, I agree Master Blaster.

I was taking a New Testament/Old Testament class about the same time as that song was on it's way out.  I'm an agnostic and it was great to screw with the zealots in the class.

Anyway, the professor had a little key chain with a dog on it that would play that song when a button was pressed.  Whenever someone came in late to the class, he would press the button unleashing an evil force.  I hated that damn keychain.  

And the worst part is that the song gets stuck in your head.......and it's horrible.

[Master Blaster]

You poor bastard. Your teacher was a monster. May he forever burn in the flames of a possibly non-exsistent Hell.

Nah Seriously that would annoy the hell out of me. At the time everybody and their mom thought that stupid song was funny. I even remember people using it in coversation. "And let me tell ya, it was like WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!! Ha ha ha" Friggin morons.

[Fearless Freep]

I'm an agnostic ...

..unleashing an evil force


He he...you may be closer to being a believer than you think :)

[BlackAngel]

Can we put this word in the "pet peeves" section?  "Bling" or "Bling-Bling".  When Cash Money Millionaires (a hip-hop group) came out with the song, it was hot, but that was in 2000 or 2001.  But everyone and their grandmother is using the word now.  

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Bulls**t!  I still can't hear you, sound off like you gotta pair.

[AndyC]

Funny, I can't name a single person who ever liked that song. Maybe they got sick of it so quickly I just didn't notice. It always struck me as an example of that phenomenon of something that is immensely popular, yet nobody seems to like it. It just seemed to be everywhere for a while.

In that regard, it also raised the question I ask of a lot of things that suck. Is it everywhere because it's popular, or is it popular because it's everywhere? Giving the public what they want is such a circular argument.

[Ellie]

Where's the beef?

[peter johnson]

I find Pop Culture as fascinating as it is annoying --
Witness "s**t Happens" -- did there exist a truck in 1997 that DIDN'T have that odious bumper-sticker on their end?  And now they are gone . . .
Trying to chronicle the ephemiral in this culture is an ongoing challenge, but one I think is worth it, for no other reason than to see how these blips work their way into and out of our awareness.
I let the cursed dogs out!!  I did!!  Do you doubt me, I, Blandar the Magnificent, due to open in Vegas, at The Sands??!!  Talk to my agent . . .
See you in Zippy . . .
crane denny/johnson peter

[djfoxwvgs]

My (at the time) three year old nephews love that song, because they could bark along to it, annoying the crap out of my sister at the same time.
Of course, I made sure they had multiple copies of it (heh heh).