Impacted

One of the best things about being a copy editor is the teensy, ridiculous stuff that gets you and your coworkers going at work. For instance, my former colleagues in Colorado and I used to laugh hysterically about the use of IMPACTED as a verb.

While 'impacted' can mean "changed or moved," according to M-W's dictionary, we found the visual of someone being IMPACTED by an event to be nothing short of hilarious.

A wisdom tooth is impacted, we'd say. YOU are not.

If you were 'impacted' by the movie, we visualized, a film would physically pick you up and ram itself into you. Not pretty, but pretty funny. Because you would be impacted by it.

My coffee has kicked in, in case you couldn't tell. Sorry.

SOLD!...to the person with the best grammar!

I've been seeing a lot of "auctioned off."

Do we need off?

Because we know what auctioning is.

Something like "The items were auctioned at a benefit" suffices, no?