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.
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Jun 12, 2012 6:34:36 am PDT #9353 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Sophia Brooks - Jun 12, 2012 6:41:22 am PDT #9354 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Consuela - Jun 12, 2012 6:43:08 am PDT #9355 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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!
Consuela - Jun 12, 2012 6:44:31 am PDT #9356 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Ginger - Jun 12, 2012 6:44:53 am PDT #9357 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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."
Jessica - Jun 12, 2012 6:45:21 am PDT #9358 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Caesar salad "with choice of dressing".
So...romaine lettuce in a bowl?
billytea - Jun 12, 2012 6:46:54 am PDT #9359 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Oh lord yes. My boss is inordinately fond of the phrase "Lift up our/their skirts" for pretty much any information-sharing. Makes me cringe every time.
sumi - Jun 12, 2012 6:48:03 am PDT #9360 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
What is a Persian Cucumber?
-t - Jun 12, 2012 6:48:11 am PDT #9361 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think, most of the time, it's not the jargon that's the problem, it's people who don't know what it mean using jargon inappropriately.
Not that I made it through the slideshow.
Consuela - Jun 12, 2012 6:49:26 am PDT #9362 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
What is a Persian Cucumber?
It's smaller than a regular cucumber, not waxed, very tasty and crisp.