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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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...and another thing! .......
Why did today's 13.37 from Lewisham to Catford Bridge not arrive until 13.39? I was bloody FROZEN by the time it got there.
Baz (pissedoffgrin>
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...and another thing! .......
Why did today's 13.37 from Lewisham to Catford Bridge not arrive until 13.39? I was bloody FROZEN by the time it got there.
Baz (pissedoffgrin>
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« Reply #513 on: 15:41:07, 23-03-2007 » |
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...and another thing! .......
Why did today's 13.37 from Lewisham to Catford Bridge not arrive until 13.39? I was bloody FROZEN by the time it got there.
Baz (pissedoffgrin>
I suppose because it was late Baz A Oh spivving! Shall we perhaps get you on Mastermind: "Next contestant: Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Specialised Subject: "The Bleedin' Obvious"? Baz |
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Upon taking over the workload of a departed colleague, my manager informed me "We need to sort out the glass balls from the rubber balls."
This inevitably contributed to my "upskilling" as well as "hanging the bicycle from the ceiling" and "jumping the shark".
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« Reply #516 on: 16:47:48, 23-03-2007 » |
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"hanging the bicycle from the ceiling" Hmmm, haven`t come across that one before, PG. Please explain before my imagination gets the better of me |
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Part of the poetry of such management-speak is that it uses language to obscure and even obliterate meaning.
My main objection is to the ugliness and stupidity of phrases such as these:
Blue sky thinking.
Brain dump.
Get our ducks in a row.
Thinking outside the box.
The helicopter view.
Let's sunset that.
Park that thought.
Open up your kimono.
Let's raise the anchor and let this one drift.
And remember people ... any noun can be verbed.
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PG, those are real gems! They make me want to revisit and unpick some interfacial e-deliverables.  |
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« Reply #519 on: 17:23:04, 23-03-2007 » |
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A rarely heard one which always makes me half smile/half wince is "it's cocks on the block time". (A bit like putting one's head on the line).
Sort of brings a new meaning to 'beheading'.....
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« Reply #520 on: 17:27:15, 23-03-2007 » |
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Let`s not forget `Singing from the same hymn sheet` which is still regularly trotted out without embarrassment, although I`m blushing as I type it. It needs to be buried, preferably in a mass grave with the others.
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« Reply #521 on: 17:36:56, 23-03-2007 » |
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A rarely heard one which always makes me half smile/half wince is "it's cocks on the block time". (A bit like putting one's head on the line).
Sort of brings a new meaning to 'beheading'.....
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« Reply #522 on: 17:53:10, 23-03-2007 » |
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Today I attempted to change banks. Again.
Having told me that my driving licence was an appropriate form of identification last week, today they couldn't accept it because it had my parents' address on it.
If driving licences didn't have an address them, then they would have been able to accept it.
Having produced my student ID as photographic evidence that I am who I claim to be (which, of course, doesn't have an address on it), they then told me that in order to let me have a student account (which will give me an interest-free overdraft to cover me until a temporary job begins at the end of April), they needed some proof that I was a student.
Last week, I was told that my student ID would be sufficient for this purpose, and I pointed out that I'd given it to them already, only to be told that because I had submitted it as photographic proof of identity, they couldn't accept it as proof that I was a student...
If I hadn't decided that this bank was going to be the best one for me, I'd be beginning to have my doubts. I very nearly asked them if they actually wanted my business (but considering that I have £3 in my bank account at the moment, they might have said 'Actually, no') and I appreciate that they have to have all these checks in place for legal reasons, but why is everything involving banks always so complicated?
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Plus I have a thumping headache, and the phrase beloved of my head of department is evading me at the moment.
He has a real talent for juggling metaphors and manages to combine such phrases as 'keeping our heads above water', 'the wheels coming off' and 'singing from the same hymn sheet' (i.e. 'we have to get all our ducks in a row, to be sure that we're all singing from the same hymn sheet, even when the wheels are coming off just so that we can keep our heads above water' but that's too ordered and logical... I'll see if I can remember his real corker which managed to combine two bizspeak metaphors that, decoded, made perfect sense, but in the literal meaning end up completely contradicting each other.
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« Reply #524 on: 18:41:21, 23-03-2007 » |
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A few more from The Garnett Collection, The Whitehall Years:
We'll just have to put the grit between our teeth
It's essentially a double-edged thrust
Attempting to draw the curtains at this late stage would only add fuel to the flames
Nothing can beat the satisfaction of having a well-oiled team
The trouble is we have got more cowboys than indians
But that will only serve to make it more complicated; we'll then have a patchwork quilt in spades
He's a stickler for detail and renowned for immersing himself in his briefs
There is more than one way to swing a cat
It is not our intention to rake over old sores
We should do more to lay the finger of responsibility at parents' doors
The aim is to breathe new life-blood into the NHS
It may be useful to have a couple of sacrificial lambs up our sleeves
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