Insipid

This just in. Phooeyhoo is tired of people misusing the word "insipid." The last straw was hearing dumb people on television repeatedly misusing it. This must go on no longer.

Insipid does not mean any of the following: hostile, evil, irascible, or lascivious. It means lacking flavor or lacking qualities that excite (read: dull, banal).

So unless you think that Susanne Somers is the most boring person on earth, saying, "Susanne's Three's Companies costars thought that she was an insipid bitch," is incorrect. "J. Howard Marshall gave into his insipid desires when he married Anna Nicole Smith," is also wrong.

However, "John's turkey tasted like an insipid pile of shit after he smeared shit over it and stuck it in the oven for 20 hours," or, "After five hours of vapid conversation, Mom finally bashed the insipid bastard's skull with a meat mallet while humming the pussycat song," are both correct usages.

Now, go into the world and misuse no longer!