Plain English Awards - Rumsfeld Honoured

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy Rizzo" <tammy at m...> 
wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2003 at 8:35, IggyMcSnurd wrote:
> 
> > > June
> > >
> > >"Reports that say something hasn't happened are always 
interesting to
> > > me because, as we know, there are known knowns - there are 
things we
> > > know we know.  We also know there are known unknowns - that is 
to
> > >say we know there are some things we do not know.  But there 
are also
> > > unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Iggy here:
> > 
> > How scared should I be by the fact that I understood that 
perfectly
> > and wasn't confused by it at all?
> 
> Now Tammy:
> I'd say, "Pretty scared", since that's how I feel, too!  Made 
PERFECT sense to me, 
> from the very first read.
> 
> ***
> Tammy
> tammy at m...

June:

We should all be scared.  For my sins I regularly attend meetings.  
Which means the bullshit quote can get very high.  Now as you all 
know I have nothing against you guys across the pond - but some of 
the office speak we seem to have imported from yourselves, I could 
do without.

Here's a few class examples:

Win-win
Level playing field
Hit the ground running
Play hardball (what???)
Any sentence with the word "strategic" in it
Synergy
Proactive
Think outside the box - THIS RENDERS THE SPEAKER LIABLE TO A SMACK 
IN THE TEETH FROM ME!
Ballpark
Leverage
Transparency
Added Value
Best practice
Total quality

Yeah I know a lot of these can be found in the Bullshit bingo games 
that are available on the net - but sadly I here a lot of this for 
real.

June