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Posted: 9:12 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012

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Contagion, The Guard, The Last Lions, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace, Puncture, Shark Night, I Don't Know How She Does It and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark are all out on DVD today!

 So You Think You Can Dance will return for a ninth season next summer, but will only air one episode per week. Fox has cancelled the results show episodes.

The Website Never Liked It Anyway is making headlines because it's a place where people can sell gifts from their ex-lovers. Check out the site HERE!

Report: Maria Shriver Reconsidering Divorcing Arnold
TMZ reveals that Shriver, 52, is having second thoughts about splitting with her husband of 25 years. Shriver’s Catholic religious beliefs, which do not include divorce, are playing a huge role in her reluctance to sign the divorce papers. A source tells TMZ that Arnold, 64, isn’t making her decision any easier, purchasing his estranged wife lavish gifts and being “extremely sweet.” A source close to the Shriver told People magazine that the duo recently spent Christmas together with their four children at the family home in Brentwood,California. They “had a really nice time” celebrating the holiday and even attended the L.A. Lakers season opener together. Shriver filed for divorce in July after it was discovered that Arnold fathered a secret child with their former maid, Mildred Beana. The pair has been spotted out together on several occasions since then, including a dinner for Arnold’s birthday. “Children and family come first,” a source told People. “Arnold and Maria will always come together when it comes to supporting and loving their children.”

 

Titanic artifacts headed to auction!

RICHMOND, Va. — The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck.

More than 5,500 items including fine china, ship fittings and portions of hull that were recovered from the ocean liner have an estimated value of $189 million, according to Premier Exhibitions Inc., parent of RMS Titanic Inc. — the Titanic's court-approved salvor. That value was based on a 2007 appraisal and does not include intellectual property gathered from a 2010 scientific expedition that mapped the wreck site.

The auction is scheduled for April 1 by Guernsey's, a New York City auction house, according to filings by Premier Exhibitions Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Results of the auction won't be announced until April 15, the date a century ago the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg.

The auction is subject to approval by a federal judge in Virginia whose jurisdiction for years has given oversight to legal issues governing the salvage of the Titanic. The Titanic treasures were amassed during seven perilous trips to the wreck, which rests about 2 1/2 miles below the ocean surface in the North Atlantic.

A spokeswoman for the auction house and Premier Exhibitions declined Wednesday to discuss the auction with The Associated Press until a formal announcement in January.

 

List of banned words for 2012 includes 'man cave,' 'baby bump,' 'occupy'

 

DETROIT (AP) – Before passing comment on someone's "baby bump," take a pregnant pause. Likewise, give up promoting "shared sacrifice." And if you're tempted to proclaim your desire to "win the future," you've lost it here in the present.

 

Michigan's Lake Superior State University is featuring those phrases in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. The 2012 list, released Friday, was compiled by the university from nominations submitted from across the globe.

What else do the syntactical Scrooges want to cast out with the good cheer in the new year? The list also includes "occupy," "ginormous," "man cave" and "the new normal."

In all, a dozen words or phrases made the 37th end-of-the year list. The list started as a publicity ploy by the school's public relations department on New Year's Day 1976, and has since generated tens of thousands of nominations.

"Amazing" received more than 1,500 nominations, the most of any on this year's list. Disdain for the superlative was apparently universal among English speakers, garnering disparaging dispatches from across the United States and even the United Kingdom and Israel.

While it lacked a single pop-culture culprit, such as the proliferating protest movement that occupied the word "occupy" or the collective ooh-ing and aah-ing that accompanied Beyonce's "baby bump," nominations to banish "amazing" cite its overuse on reality television and by daytime talk show hosts. Social media also spurred the call to surrender the word's conversational credentials, notably through a Facebook page called "Overuse of the Word Amazing."

"The word has been overused to describe things only slightly better than mundane," Alyce-Mae Alexander of Maitland, Fla., wrote in her nomination. "I blame Martha Stewart because to her, EVERYTHING is amazing!"

University spokesman John Shibley said he and his colleagues were surprised that "amazing" hadn't already graced the archive of about 900 banished words.

"The simple ones are always the ones that get through the cracks — until this year," he said.

Other terms circulating for years that have finally raised enough ire to earn a spot on the list include "blowback," "man cave," "the new normal" and "thank you in advance." The last one particularly annoys Mike Cloran of Cincinnati, Ohio.

"This is a condescending and challenging way to say, 'Since I already thanked you, you have to do this,'" Cloran wrote in his submission.

Lake Superior State University, located in Sault St. Marie — the last stop before Michigan's northernmost border-crossing with Canada — has seen its list survive despite many banished words stubbornly clinging to the language. For evidence, look no further than last year's "fail," "viral" and "a-ha moment." And then there is, well, blowback from critics who can't take a little tongue-in-cheek critique.

Shibley said some people have missed the point over the years and complained that the list is an effort to control the language. But most seem to receive it in good cheer, rather than with jeers.

"A lot of people can take this wrong. We don't mean any malice when we publish it," Shibley said. "If it makes you angry, it gets you thinking about language. If it gets you laughing, it gets you thinking about language. It's done its job — to get you to think about how you express yourself."

 

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