Help remedies has partnered with Cute Overload to present the so cute it makes me sick contest. Post a photo of your cute animals, costumed babies, or romantic grandparents, to help’s Facebook page!
The most nauseatingly cute item, creature, or thing will be celebrated here on cute, and rewarded with $500, t-shirts for you and your cutest, and a selection of help products. Photos that incorporate help, I’m nauseous (now available at target, in stores only) will get special attention.
Enter now the contest ends May 20!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! *weeping*
PS: Is any other Usage Fascist going to point out that it should be “Help! I’m Nauseated”?
They really do need help if they are nauseous (making other people sick)!
hehe… sorry Th, I didn’t see this…
my mini-rant is posted below
Well, you BOTH beat me to it!
I really wouldn’t want to go around wearing a shirt that says “I’ll make you sick.”
It’s correct for the dog, right? Since it’s supposed to be making US sick with its cuteness?
It is, actually, correct for the dog! Not the emergency packs. But I bet whoever made the T-shirt didn’t know that (about the dog part).
And… is it awful to say that I wish the packs were actually a solution for being nauseous — some people need them and should really come with the warning, too…
I would wear that shirt just to see how people would react.
Came here JUST to do that.
Only a few people think I’m nauseous. But they suck anyhow.
English no being my first language I didn’t see the problem but I undestand you guys I do the same thing when it’s the French language being abused, especially by the French!
Guess I shoudn’t have used the a word.
Just found this – http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nau1.htm – apparently now it is fine to use nauseous in the way the advertiser intended?!
Thank you–very informative! Perhaps I should stop smacking people about this now?
Well, if you do, make sure you find something else to smack them about. People need to be smacked.
Why? They know why!
yes, indeed, skippymom.
They do need that. And the general strategy required, is the “Upside the Haid” variety.
This is why my mudder wuz invented. This is well-within her skillset,
even at age of 81. Crap, HER mudder (not nearly ads rough on peeps) lived to the resilient tough age of 97 !!!
Signed,
pere la Therese does spit baths and
my momma whaps people upside the haid.
(actually, she generally manages to stifle the PHYSICAL action.
But the way she looks at you, you wish she WOULD just get it over with.)
Among my siblings this is known as “slap therapy.” It is administered often!
Yo, Usage fascist lieutenant in the word police here. I thought of
this immediately, but held back to be nice. Ha.
Right there with you.
This has been an outstanding meeting of the CO Chapter of the Usage Fascists Society! I nominate Theresa as our President and Chief Grammarian. Irregardless of how your going to vote, I pick Theresa.
(And before you all blow a gasket, yes, I am aware of what I did there–that was on purpose…)
Just so we know……
Please! As a good Fascist, I simply seize power.
WAIT
a “good” Fascist????
I OBJECT.
harrumph.
in re is anyone else gonna point out the Nauseous/ Nauseated –
I’m sure that Sheldon Cooper, PhD will be along, “terreckly.
He did a whole small thesis on this specific mangling of usage / vocab word in one episode. I don’t recall, at whom he raged.
I was about to! And I’ve heard about it becoming so common that it’s now ‘OK’ to use nauseated, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop ‘learning’ people about it
I was going to ask “What is a nauseous present?” but now i won’t…
My copy editor self shuddered immediately, Theresa. *shudder, SHUDDER*
::shakes head::
Yes. GRRRRRR.
I do not know the Help brand of products, Target has not arrived in Québec (they are comming this year) but I love the humor and the cute puppette!
Now excuse, I feel my stomach rising.
it’s nauseated, people, geez…
misuse of the word itself makes me want to ralph. likely won’t buy this product because of it.
… now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
The most ralphinating word that I heard recently, was someone saying that she wanted to conversate with me
One of my favorites is the verb “liaise”.
OK, so out of curiosity I just looked it up, and supposedly that is a word now? Bull-freakin’-crap it is.
there’s so much of this abuse of a superb language going on
these days, I get NAUSEATED a lot. My philology teacher
said English is a living language and changes and moves
all the time, but I don’t think the current style would please him.
I must change my attitude, or I will turn inside out by Friday.
A relevant Calvin and Hobbes cartoon:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060313/verbing_weirds_language.gif
– waits to see the followup statement here, about longue/ chaise/ etc.
bonus points for ‘ralphinating’
Oh no, that is like “to orientate.”
“Irregardless” makes my head explode.
May we shoot offenders, on-sight??
OMG, I am right there with you! It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard. Grrrrrr!!
hehe it turns me vio-lent…
argh
My un-favorite is “normalcy”. it was made up for some presidental campaign early last century. It’s “normality”. I’m not fond of “hopefully”, either.
Ah, an attendee of the GWBush School of Almost-English?
Don’t even remind me!!! I now hear people saying “decider” absolutely seriously! This on top of “concerning” (to mean “of concern”) and “reco’nize” and “sen’ence.” Just makes me want to cuss articulately.
May I take your momentum and also “cuss articulately”, Juno??
Sammy the hammy is officially entered! I entered this pic from his first CO post: http://cuteoverload.com/2010/01/12/very-pretty-now-wheres-the-food/
Oh my gosh, Katrina! He is stinkin’ cute!
eeet rhymes, too, Boss !!! (“sammy”/ “hammy”
)
My Eddy is nauseous, and all of us are nauseated when we are with him.
(Poor Eddy.)
Could it perhaps be, that he just completed reading Proust’s A la remembrance des choses passes (or however that title goes) and he eez feeled with, ‘ow you say,
l’ennui and not weef, ‘ow you say, le barf??
(just remembered: it’s “de temps perdus….”).
Carry on.
Ees eet not À la recherche du temps perdu ?
C’est ca, Madame!!!
Merci bien.
(I loooooooooooooooooove thinking in Frawnsche …..
Theresa — once in college, when I was about 3/4 finished with the courses for my major in French, I had been studying that night for several different classes of different topic/ French….When I woke up the next morning I had had my DREAMS IN FRENCH that night rather than in English. Talk about MIND-blowing events…)
*contented sigh*
Alas, I’m nauseated by Facebook and am not a member. I miss out on yet another contest.
(
GNAW-seous!
What, no one but me is having Rocko’s Modern Life flashbacks?
“turn the page, wash your hands… turn the page, wash your hands…”
I love to say “I’m nauseous” in Filburt’s voice. Hubby is the only one who gets it.
Entered one of the Dori-faery pics I have! So many cutes on that page!
Are you Teresa in BC or a different Teresa?
A different one. I am T in Nashville
OK, thanks. Hi!
Your doggie is very cute.
And of course, there is me, Theresa.
NYC-T in da house!
Yes. Suckers gotta recognize.
“Neither THAT Theresa, Nor the Other Teresa, nor …”
um perhaps we could affix rhinestones to one of the screennames in question???
or sumfin ….
Thanks
She loves the camera since I have taken daily photos of her since we got her. The hard part is getting to understand that sometimes I am wanting to shoot something that isn’t her!
i love this thread. and the idea.
Hooray for the Grammar Police! You are the Grammarians about whom my mother warned me.
Wait, what! Cuteoverload doesn’t already have enough cute? I am disappoint . . . . .