Moratorium

"And then that happened."

"Well, that happened."

"That really happened."

"That just happened."

Okay. The first time those words were written; brilliant.

New, quirky, sassy, funny, irreverent; sold a scene.

Whedon-esque simplicity (if he wasn't, in fact, the

author; who knows at this point?) irony and wit.

For a few times afterwords, when used in reference to

one person having already brought the phrase into the

lexicon, cute and a nice in-joke.

Now, it's gone the way of a drunk homeless guy in

an alleyway (in a movie) who sees

something spectacular and vows to give up hooch.

It's become the overdone Seinfeld

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."

It is now the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League

"Bwah-Ha-Ha!" over saturation.

And it needs to stop.

"Talk to the hand."

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