>>You missed out "to be quite honest with you". People say that for no reason, in confabs where honesty is not an issue.
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>My memory is not as good as it used to be.
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>>BTW I watched a docu the other night, after starting this thread, about prince Charles in his 61st year. I counted he used "at the end of the day" at least 5 times in the 1 hour show. In the time it took me to write that last sentence my colleague behind me said it twice on the phone to a customer (he uses all these all day, every day). Ironically he also said "ultimately" in the same sentence as "at the end of the day".
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>>Is it any wonder my pedant nerves jangle?
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>I do not think you are pedant to bring forward this topic, I was just kidding, and I know there are a lot of people that shares your hate of overused cliches. In my case, I do not watch documentaries about Prince Charles, just in case :)

To give Chaz his due, he said that in several interviews and the docu was recorded over several weeks/months in his life, so to slip in in 5 times isn't so bad.
BTW it was a very interesting show, seeing how the other half live, and how many military uniforms he can dress up in in a 1 hour show. :-)

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>>Also, just the other week it was on national news here about a survey of the top cliches that drive us nutzoid, and all the above are in it.
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>That makes you an informed pedant :)