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"(-)s, (-)s, and (-)s, oh my!"

— carmen from | Language | 5.20.2009 | Comments (4)

You mean lions, and tigers and bears, oh my!...?

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I think Carmen means when people fill in other stuff instead of lions, tigers, and bears, trying to be cute. It's the kind of thing that would crop up in a morning news program. "Taxes and fees and interest, oh my!" in their Personal Finance segment. That's what I think, anyhow.

— jmc posted 5/20/2009

God bless you for mentioning this; it drives me crazy. People who think up titles for newspaper & magazine articles are some of the worst offenders. It's so lazy...

— Johnny Mau posted 6/1/2009

Didn't get it (I'm a foreign reader, this site is so funny!)

— Pela posted 4/4/2010

Putting on a clean pair of socks, entering the bathroom or kitchen and standing in a water splash left on the floor, thus getting your clean socks wet and forcing you to change them. » 5 stars

Excessive and difficult-to-remove packaging » 4.95455 stars

Having to act completely surprised and utterly amazed by any and all gifts given to you in a public setting. » 4.91667 stars

When two light switches control the same light, but one must be off and the other on for the light switch to work. » 4.90909 stars

Driving behind someone with their blinker on for miles. » 4.90909 stars

Being forced to participate in a bouquet/garter toss at a wedding » 4.9 stars

Saying that men watching their own kids are "babysitting." » 4.88235 stars

The dried lotion booger stuck on the nozzle of the lotion bottle. » 4.88235 stars

Using mobile phones at the register. » 127 Comments

The "insert" button on keyboards. » 67 Comments

The non-existance of unpadded bras in cup sizes less than D. Macy's, Victoria's secret, and Bloomingdales do not carry them. unpadded. » 64 Comments

When pregnant women complain about being pregnant. » 60 Comments

"Irregardless." » 57 Comments

People who deliberately pronounce words incorrectly and repeatedly. » 55 Comments

Women who are just so beautiful they don't have to contribute to sex... » 54 Comments

People who put ketchup in the refrigerator. » 53 Comments

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10.31.10

Thanks to a recent torrent of spam, I’ve had to disable comments for a while. I’ve now removed the ability to put links in the comments. Email me if you want to put something in, such as five links to knock-off handbag sites, and I’ll happily oblige.

09.10.10

I’ve added two features to the sidebar: Highest Rating and Hotly Debated. They will be updated daily. To my surprise, the ketchup-in-fridge peeve seemed to really incite some anger — it’s clearly a complex situation that affects us all.

It should be noted that the star ratings indicate how much you agree with, or appreciate, the peeve, not how you feel when it happens.

I will be adding a Paragon Peeves section as well, for my and my friends’ personal favorites.

Please enjoy, and contact me if you have any new feature ideas.