An Epic Entry

After crossing Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other socially inclined pop-culture relevant sites, I have concluded that we as an online group use the word epic too frivolously. By deeming epic a night of playing video games with your best mates you are decreasing the very significance of the word.

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- heroic or grand in scale or character: his epic journey around the world | a tragedy of epic proportions.

The Odyssey is epic. There are several battles from WWI and II that are pretty epic. The size and status and demise of the Titanic was epic. Downing 15 beers and playing jumprope (while I'd very much like to see the footage) is by all accounts not epic.

Let's ban together Internet, to preserve the integrity of the word so those who truly commit epic acts are still given the proper credit when deserved. Here are some suitable alternates that I feel will still impress people as they read your Facebook: amazing, incredible, fantastic, so fun, unbelievable, spectacular, the bomb, a blast, and if you wanna be retro about it - the bees knees.

Note: by inserting the f-word at any point in your status, you can also increase the oomph and seriousness behind the statement without delving into the world of fictional epicness.

Ladies Can Buy Steak If They Want

I was thinking about my steak entry feel an addendum is appropriate. Call me wishy-washy but also call me a proud workin' woman and if I wanna buy myself (and a good man) a steak, then I damn well will and 'aint nobody gonna stop me.

Ladies Don't Buy Steak

That's really all there is to it. Doesn't mean we can't eat it and enjoy it, but I feel that a good steak should be bought by a good man. Call me old fashioned… and bring me one while you're at it.