Comments on: The best thing on the internet today https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Elmer Eugene Eggelsworth https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533275 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:11:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533275 Not Found

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]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533274 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:14:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533274 About twenty years ago I worked for a fortune-500 company (okay, it was ALCOA). I was not an executive, but got to write up a lot of memoranda, as well as standard operating procedures for the department I was in. I would consistently use phrases similar to those mentioned. It was not because I, the author, was an idiot, but because the audience, the highly-paid executives, were thought by me to be idiots. Guess what: I was right.

I would pad out paragraphs with utter bullshit and buzzwords. I actually found it comical. And the executives? They ate it up. They loved it! And they were very serious about it.

]]> By: José https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533273 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:01:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533273 One can only ponder how they didn’t end up picking this use of the word one.

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533272 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:14:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533272 What, the Christianistists don’t have an agenda? Or agendas (“agendae” ha ha)?

How about the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy? Don’t they have an agenda to restore the aristocracy? (Trick question; already done.)

]]> By: Tom https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533271 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:14:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533271 Crikey! I LOLed my way through the whole thing! ROTFLMAO, in fact, most of the time! All of my favorites are there! “going forward” “synergy” . When I worked for an insurance company (don’t ask: it was horrible beyond my wildest imaginings)we used to play Bullshit Bingo in company meetings. Our playing cards had words like these in the spaces, and the object was to mark off each word as it was used by the speaker. We were supposed to stand up and shout “bullshit” if we managed to get a row filled before the end of the meeting, but I don’t remember that anyone actually had the nerve to do this. There were plenty of suppressed snorts to be heard, though. Great use of otherwise wasted life force!

]]> By: Robert Bruce Thompson https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533270 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:48:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533270 Creationist agenda? Fundamentalist agenda? AIG agenda? Discovery Institute agenda? Right-to-life agenda?

My only objection to the word is that most people use the plural when they actually mean agendum.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533269 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:58:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/26/the-best-thing-on-the-internet/#comment-533269 Word!

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