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Bob Greece 
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 Topic: Is the word "overrated" overrated?
Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:27 |
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What do you think?
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:30 |
Well if it was not overrated before it certainly is now.. 
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Pablo_P
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:30 |
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yes, it is indeed, it's used too often (especially on this forum)...
But what word can be used instead?
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Pablo P.
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cobb
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:32 |
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No, it has a nice ring to it, or maybe its like something you get after a big lunch, over ated.
I feel the member continually using it is just trying to start threads that will spark controversy. Just a subtle way of trolling. Does the member actually input more than the topic starter- can't remember.
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Blacksword
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:35 |
 Pablo_P wrote:
yes, it is indeed, it's used too often (especially on this forum)...
But what word can be used instead?
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Overvalued
Overestimated
Hyped
Puffed up
Glorified
Just a few ideas from MS Word Thesaurus... 
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Pablo_P
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:44 |
There was a funny quotation: "I think it's overrated"
from Monty Python's "And Now For Something Completely Different", do you remember that?
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Pablo P.
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Bob Greece
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:50 |
Blacksword wrote:
Overvalued
Overestimated
Hyped
Puffed up
Glorified
Just a few ideas from MS Word Thesaurus...
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That gives me an idea for a poll:
Which of the following is Dream Theater?
- Overvalued
- Overestimated
- Hyped
- Puffed up
- Glorified
Seriously I love Dream Theater.
By the way, how can a band be overrated if lots of people like it? Maybe they are all fools?
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NutterAlert
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:51 |
Pablo_P wrote:
yes, it is indeed, it's used too often (especially on this forum)...
But what word can be used instead?
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RADIOHEAD
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Phil
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 05:51 |
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It's overused!
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Blacksword
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 06:52 |
Bob Greece wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
Overvalued
Overestimated
Hyped
Puffed up
Glorified
Just a few ideas from MS Word Thesaurus...
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That gives me an idea for a poll:
Which of the following is Dream Theater?
- Overvalued
- Overestimated
- Hyped
- Puffed up
- Glorified
Seriously I love Dream Theater.
By the way, how can a band be overrated if lots of people like it? Maybe they are all fools?
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I was thinking the same for ELP, but I guess that kind of idea is 'overused'
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Under
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:09 |
Hmm, I just defended by overrated- theory in the Porcupine Tree thread.
Just copy and paste ...
I don't believe in overrated or underrated. Every band is rated as it is. It is that invisible hand of the economic market which sometimes strechtes over to the field of music opinions. So being rated is subject of the opinions of all people, not only the ones being capable of technically analyse the music, but the less than experts as well.
So people using the word overrated are just bad losers, trying to force their opinion and musical superiority to others. The same applies to underrated.
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Syzygy
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:15 |
It's impossible to overstate how overrated it is. Find a synonym and get over it!
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Velvetclown
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:24 |
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That´s an understatement !!
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Vompatti
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:43 |
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Yes it is, and the word "underrated" is overrated as well.
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cobb
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:47 |
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Maybe it's all just overreacted
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Moogtron III
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:49 |
Phil wrote:
It's overused! |
That's what it is, "overrated" (and "underrated") are overused  !
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Blacksword
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 07:57 |
I think both 'underrated' and 'overrated' are being overstated here, but then again I am the master of understatement..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Fantômas
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 10:44 |
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NEW PAGE!
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And above all, is punk 
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 20:43 |
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Instead of overrated, how about............musically inept and derided by most, but there's always one who thinks they are grander than the rest..................
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 21:22 |
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I think discussing whether or not the word "overrated" is overrated is in itself overrated.
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