If I could take one phrase out of the American vernacular, it would be the one dealing with “sugar shock.” I just read a movie review that described the film (“50 First Dates”) as too sweet… enough to send you into sugar shock, “pass the insulin.” Stupid, stupid, stupid. I also had a professor at Covenant once use this phrase; then, after class, he pulled me over and apologized. Now really, I didn’t need the apology — it didn’t hurt my feelings in the slightest. But because he apologized, I began to think of the dumb phrase as somehow being offensive to diabetics. In all actuality, it is a stupid saying that DOESN’T MAKE SENSE and is only slightly offensive. Sugar doesn’t send people into “shock” (and it sure as hell doesn’t send a non-diabetic into shock) — if there is way too much sugar combined with the worrisome presence of a byproduct called ketones, a diabetic could go into a coma due to ketoacidosis. So why is the phrased used? Who knows… I guess it just gets passed on by those who don’t realize how lame it is.