Aims! Princess Anne's daughter Zara is on the British Olympic Eventing Team.

Forbes Most Annoying Business Jargon.

Didn't get through all of them, but I do hear quote a few of the ones listed. I say 'get my ducks in a row' often. One of my partners refers to her 'S.W.A.T Team' all the time which really amuses me because it takes new people a long time to figure out what she is saying with her accent. I just let them suffer because I am mean that way.

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I say "ducks in a row" too - though I am not in the private sector. A student from mine overseas did not know what that phrase meant. He laughed at me.

Right on, Leif! World Domination Through Soccer

Some of the business jargon serves a purpose, but a lot of it seems to be used by people who don't have any serious thought behind it.

I liked the picture for the Tiger team! Those Tiger kittens (cubs?) were adorable.

Is a salad considered a Caesar salad without the dressing. My cafeteria has a Caesar salad "with choice of dressing". Weird.

And, lord, we use "best practice" all the time.

We use "Best Management Practices" (BMPs) all the damn time. Those are processes you implement to limit environmental harm, like washing heavy machinery at a distance from the shoreline, or establishing spill prevention protocols, dampening the ground before work to prevent kicking up dust, that sort of thing. Useful jargon!

My cafeteria has a Caesar salad "with choice of dressing". Weird.

It's not a Caesar without Caesar dressing.

Speaking of salads, I had a great one last night: mixed greens with roasted beet, goat cheese, Persian cucumber, a leftover crab cake, and a simple lemon-garlic-olive oil-parmesan dressing. NOM. I may have to do it again tonight, although I ate all the cucumber.

Ducks in a row has been around forever, so I really wouldn't consider it business jargon. I worked with a guy who said he had to get "all his ducks in a heap."