Wikipedia is the greatest.

So, I watched this steaming pile of poop of a "film" called Twisted with Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, and Ashley Judd. It was one giant pulsating mass of clichés. I've come to expect this from Ms. Judd (see Double Jeopardy, High Crimes, Divine Lameness of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, etc., etc., etc. But Sammy-J and Andy Garcia? Come on, you guys are better than that.
Anyway, the great thing that came from this tartar-scraping of a movie was that it caused me to look up the origin of the word cliché on wikipedia. For those of you with carpal tunnel I will save you a click:

...originally a printing term, for a semi-permanently assembled piece of type which could easily be inserted into the document being printed...

I then looked up on the sweetest free translation site on the web the literal definition of the word and it turns out that it means stereotype, which is also a printing term with French origins. Again, I shall save you arthritics a click:

The word stereotype was invented by Firmin Didot in the world of printing; it was originally a duplicate impression of an original typographical element, used for printing instead of the original. Over time, this became a metaphor for any set of ideas repeated identically, en bloc, with minor changes. In fact, cliché and stereotype were both originally printers' words, and in their literal printers' meanings were synonymous. Specifically, cliché was an onomatopoetic word for the sound that was made during the stereotyping process when the matrix hit molten metal.

Wow, is that cool or what? Now I need to do a post on onomatopoetic words. I shall, however, save this for another day without so many Game 7's.

P.S. Have you ever noticed that people (including yourselves) often use the phrase "a whole nother," as in "Now you're talking about a whole nother issue." It feels natural, but when you think about it: it's pretty retarded.