And anyone who uses "Beat Combo" on here should be barred and beaten.

I currently work for an American company, and during early conversations they lost me completely by regularly referring to the "distro" - e.g. I'll let this distro know, I'll update the distro tomorrow etc. Eventually I worked out it means "distribution list" as in for the circulation of emails.....ARRRRGH

Makes the painted, bewigged nutcase sound like your mate from the pub. Overly chummy and wrong.

Ho

guitarist I used to know called his instrument a 'Gibbo', which I thought was particularly demeaning for such an august brand.

Not sure it works too well with your name either, does it Heppo?

I believe Mr. Williams sometimes suffers 'Robbo' from the red tops too. Yuck.

I hate it when a twat who looks like Jamie Oliver (or who is actually Jamie Oliver) says "coolio". This usally happens when a group of twats have arranged to go for some "scoops".

Glastonbury is indeed a wonderful country town and the Tor is a delightfully atmospheric place. Glasto is a nasty over-commercialised circus of the average for the average, at least on the main stages. (I accept that the distant fields retain an aura from greater days.) Just about befitting a roady from Cud, methinks.
Lambo had me confused for a minute; I thought you were referring to the excellent advertisents for sheep and cow flesh, with the witty cartoon cricketers.

"Uni".
Anyone who uses the ghastly word is toothickfor.
But then I suppose "Former Useless Polytethnic" is a bit of mouthful

I hate Xmas.I won't go on but it just bugs me to hell.

...some designers have a habit of calling fluorescent colours "fluoros". I bang my head against the desk silently.

but I live in Oxford, and have heard students say "Fancy going for a cuzza?"

I believe that means 'curry'.

Nice to know that the finest academic minds in the country are being put to such good use.

All my mates call me Carto.
It's a Dublin thing.

Xmas has been in use for along while it was used by monks as short hand in manuscripts, also I am worried about the Anti-Cudist trend in this strand what as one of Britains greatest live bands and kings of lion pop have have they done to deserve such ridicule?

"You call Glastonbury "Glasto"
You'd like to go there one day
When they put up the gun towers
To keep the hippies away"

Marvellous sentiment, says it so much better than either Heppo or I were, despite sustaining/demolishing/retracting said views simultaneously.
Wouldn't 1/2M,1/2B be so much better if their song titles and lyrics promised the same standard of tune and performance. Sadly, more unlistenable claptrap ensues......

if this phenomenon was the origin of the American Tivo system.

Timothy is bad enough in itself, it makes me cringe a bit. However, anybody abbreviating it to 'Timbo' should be strung up in my opinion.

Oh, and it annoys me too when Steve Lamacq is referred to as 'Lammo'

What did used to make me laugh was when Mark and Lard did their Radio 1 show and used to add -o onto people's names to make it sound like they were matey with everyone.

"Craig Thompson from Dunstable's emailed in."
"Ah, Thommo! How's he these days?"

Can I reclaim 'combo'? It's a great word.

I'll swap it for Beemer. Or Duffo.

Brillo always irritated me - I had a girlfriend once who said it all the time "brillo this, brillo that". Deffo, however, is fine with me. Deffo.

Any advance on "boggo" as in "boggo simple"?

Biffo the bear's monicker short for something then?

I can't stand the 'Valley Girl' voice used for any teeny tale.

And where did the 'urban' accent come from? Which applied to the above would read "It wuz lak" "'n am lak"

Can I blame Tim (Roland Rat reborn) Westwood?

Sorry David, I've just remembered that in our house, we don't pop in to Sainsburys, we go to Sainso's... (justification: maybe it's cos it rhymes with our other choices, Tesco's and Waitrose).

That's Waitro's?

there's nowt wrong with vino.

Innit.

you lot should probably steer clear of Australia. I've been here 8 months and I'm beginning to forget that it's not a rule of the English language that nouns must end in a vowel.

My name was Nick when I boarded the plane at Heathrow - by the time I touched down in Sydney, it had apparently become 'Nicko'.

And let's not forget the likes of 'bottle-o' (off licence to you and me...)

Apparently, "sarvo" is used by Australian's meaning "this afternoon". Absolutely vile.

This probably originated in the Australian dialect, and it occurs in American some times. This I will concede is part of the vernacular and entirely forgivable. However, for some ten years now it's been a staple in this country too. At its very root is insecurity - are you interested in the information I'm giving you? If I make it sound like a question will it make me seem more conversational? - but it's just plain irritating on every front. To be honest, I don't think it's as bad now as it was in, say, 1998.

panto and Bono?

Ask Rob.

As with many things, it was a Mancunian that did it first...

http://www.hatads.org.uk/review/vimto.jpg

All this from the man who introduced the "Hora" to our collective vernacular....

And wasn't it Messrs. Hepworth and Ellen who were fairly instrumental in bringing "Macca" to the popular parlance?

... bench mark, touch base with. We call them wa*k words in my office. Awful.

HORA is a shocker and Heppy and ELO should be ashamed of themselves. But I love it.
Richard Lowe, I always refer to Jimmy Webb as Mr Webb and never Webby. That's you (or "uzza" I suppose).
A previous poster noted "Bono" and I am keen to point out that between Hindhead and Haslemere (on the way home to The Cafe at The Walled Garden Cowdray, another plug) there is a sign to The Edge. Well I never.

there's a part of skem called pimbo.
very odd

did they start it all with ringo?

Wasn't there an orchestral pop combo with the moniker ELO?

What about 'sicko' and, of course, Mr Orbison himself 'The Big "O"'.

Known only as Cheeris in my house.

A couple of years ago at the Royal Albert Hall I saw an excellent band supporting Genesis tribute band The Musical Box (stop that now; they were stunningly good and worth every penny of the £50 ticket price). Sadly the name of the support band was and remains JEBO. I bought their CD but I'm sure it is the awful name that has stopped me liking it.