I'm Rick James ______!!!!

amazon, backbiter, battle-ax, biddy, bitch, calumniator, carper, detractor, dragon, fire-eater, fishwife, fury, harpy, harridan, hell cat, hellion, hussy, madcap, muckraker, nag, ogress, old biddy, porcupine, reviler, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, siren, spitfire, termagant, tigress, virago, vituperator, vixen, wench

This week's Thesaurus Thursday was co-blogged by the ever-so-sexy Bill, who chose the word 'bitch' as his overused word of the week.
He also just informed me of the fact that he thought a commercial for Hallmark was supposed to be about pedophiles.
Isn't he the best?

H&R Mock

Dear H&R Block,
Guys, seriously? If you want me to trust you enough to do my taxes for me, I highly suggest coming up with a more literate ad slogan than "We got people."
It's the English language. I think you're more than capable of mastering an elementary school level of grammar.
So, either change it to "We've got people" or "We got people to call up a CPA to get their taxes done rather than take their chances with tax preparers who probably are unable to read."

Thesaurus Thursday

For almost a year now, I've noticed an overabundance of the word 'amazing'. And it is truly beginning to piss me off. No, the treats I made were NOT amazing. They were Rice Krispies treats decorated with frosting, for Christ's sake. And if that honestly stops you in wonder, man, you need a HOBBY. The excellent Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus offers up the following as alternatives.

anomalous, astonishing, astounding, awesome, extraordinary, fabulous, fantasmo, far out, freakish, gas, heavy, incredible, inexplicable, magical, marvelous, monstrous, numinous, phenomenal, preternatural, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, strange, stupefying, stupendous, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supranatural, thaumaturgic, the utmost, too much, unaccountable, unbelievable, unearthly, unimaginable, unreal, wonderworking, wondrousaces, astonishing, astounding, bang-up, best, breathtaking, cool, crack, dilly, doozie, extravagant, fab, fantastic, fictitious, first class, gone, greatest, groovy, immense, in spades, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous, mind-blowing, out-of-this-world, outrageous, peachy, phenomenal, primo, prodigious, rad, remarkable, spectacular, striking, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, top drawer, tops, turn-on, unbelievable, unreal, wicked, wondrous

Which raises the question for me, as a New Englander: whatever happened to 'wicked'??