The Lake Superior State University has announced their list of BANNED words (or phrases, I s'pose) for 2004:
Metrosexual
X
Punked
Place Stamp Here
Companion Animals
Bling (Bling-Bling)
LOL
Embedded Journalist
Smoking Gun
Shock and Awe (ick)
Captured Alive
Shots Rang Out
Ripped from the Headlines
Sweat Like a Pig
In Harms Way
Hand-Crafted Latte
Sanitary Landfill
fair and balanced
spider hole
weapons of mass destruction
suicide bomber
homicide bomber
axis of evil
intellectual property
peer to peer
reality anything