Plain English Awards - Rumsfeld Honoured

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Dec 4 20:10:36 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
> <june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> 
> > Think outside the box - THIS RENDERS THE SPEAKER LIABLE TO A 
SMACK 
> > IN THE TEETH FROM ME!
> 
> I saw a funny cartoon recently, I think in The New Yorker 
magazine.  
> There was a small cat sitting in its litterbox, and a human 
standing 
> next to it looking at the cat saying "Don't think outside the box."
> 
> --Joywitch

I was at a meeting this afternoon - one of those sort and I present 
for the board's inspection the following sightings:

Good collaborative partner working

Win-win - yes really someone said it!

I myself offered to "extrapolate some figures into year round 
projections" - mind you, in mitigation - I was having a laugh.

Oh, and I had a chance to say "let's think outside the box" but knew 
I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.

I heard the word "strategic" five times, once said by me (hangs head 
in shame) but I think you can only count each word once.

June





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