I adore that Grace Jones is both hula hooping AND singing at the jubilee. She looks, as ever, amazing. Unstoppably so. Tom and Lorenzo have been calling Jada Pinkett Smith Grace-Jones-like, but no way. Pale imitation.

agreed. Grace Jones is fierce.

Some of these I've never heard. Most of the rest make me grit my teeth just reading about them.

OMG, the land of nursing is filled with "Core Competencies".

I also thought Body of Work was not annoying, but then I realized that I work in the arts, where someone actually has a body of work. Using it to refer to a company is weird.

I've come to hate the use of "competency" instead of "competence". But that's me.

In reference to:

Somehow I suspect my Celtic ancestors did not eat these things.

I bet they would have if they could get their hands on them (in reference to oreo-like yummies).

And there was a book by ... Tom Holt? Beowulf and some early warriors awaken from a long sleep and, on being given a ding-dong or some such, one says something like, "classy - gold-plated food" before chowing down.

I don't understand what's wrong with some of those terms. Like "scalable". It has a clear meaning, and that meaning is sometimes important to convey. They don't say whether the word has to go, or the concept.

Among the ones I've never heard: "open the kimono". And I am *so* glad about that, because I would not know where to look or who to glare at first.

And, lord, we use "best practice" all the time. We're tying to clean up a deployment, and one of our key goals it to make sure we're using the vendor's best practices when we implement it. I guess you could say "recommendation" or "standards"--is it because the word "best" is in there that's setting them off?

And then I became bored, because none of those terms are as annoying as a business stretching out an article in order to fit in more advertising. I'm going to call it "pageview whoring" and they're free to object to it as they see fit.

Eh. Some of those are annoying but I'm equally irritated that these types of articles rarely acknowledge that it's actually useful to have a common shorthand for things. Taking something offline - no, it's not literally accurate. But it's easier than "you and I will discuss this later in more detail when we don't have all these other people on the line so as not to waste their time". BFD.

Among the ones I've never heard: "open the kimono". And I am *so* glad about that, because I would not know where to look or who to glare at first.

That one was creepy. And I'm glad I've never heard it.

And then I became bored, because none of those terms are as annoying as a business stretching out an article in order to fit in more advertising. I'm going to call it "pageview whoring" and they're free to object to it as they see fit.

So much this. Especially when it's sized so that in my [totally standard] browser configuration you have to scroll down to see the caption because they've got so much loaded into the page headers.

Some of those are annoying but I'm equally irritated that these types of articles rarely acknowledge that it's actually useful to have a common shorthand for things.

Yeah, a lot of jargon is super useful! Although some of it is just ridiculous. My favorite from a friend (and I didn't click through, so don't know if it's in that article) is the "high hard ones." I guess just headlines? I don't know, because I laugh so hard just thinking about the phrase that it doesn't matter.

ita !, "scalable" was the one that stuck out for me as a "Huh? What's wrong with that?" thing, too. I'd never heard the word before, but as soon as they defined it I recognized what they were describing immediately. It seemed like a perfectly cromulent word to me -- short and sweet and conveys a manufacturing and distribution concept that would otherwise take an entire paragraph to explain. If anything, it seemed like the kind of tidy, compact jargon that all jargon should hope to be when it grows up.

"Get your ducks in a row" also got a "Bzuh?" from me. Mildly annoying phrase, and I'm sure some people overuse it until everyone around them wants to smash something, but business jargon?

UK PM Cameron and his wife - left their daughter at a restaurant.

Didn't realize it until they got home. (They were traveling in separate vehicles.)

My parents did something similar with my youngest brother after a long trip: he was asleep in the backseat and each thought that other had brought him in and then they realized.