Reporting on "Fail" = nytFAIL

ZOMG did you hear that on the interwebz, those durned kids are using the word "Fail" more than they are sending inappropriate someecards during the workday??

"Time was, fail was simply a verb that denoted being unsuccessful or falling short of expectations. It made occasional forays into nounhood, in fixed expressions like without fail and no-fail. That all started to change in certain online subcultures about six years ago."

Ya see here, my sons and daughters, there was once a time when fail was not an over-used and cloying interjection/suffix proliferated on the Internet whenever someone or something went awry. Let us use it in a sentence: "Christopher Columbus failed to reach the East Indies. Rather, the land he discovered was what would become, one day, the U.S. of A." ColumbusFAIL. (DOH! Can't. help. self...)

They couldn't even resist their favorite trick -- self-referencing:

"...After the spread of the #CNNfail hashtag during Iran’s postelectoral strife, would-be media critics vented their wrath at other news outlets, generating such hashtags as #MSNBCfail, #FoxNewsfail and #NYTimesfail."

Let us note what this blog is plainly and purposely NOT titled.