'Is this 'Intellectual W*nking ... or not???? (ps. the * is an 'a'!!)

When I worked, some 10 years ago, the corporate lingo always started with the first two fingers of each hand making a quotes symbol. The 'in vogue' terms that came from the likes of the Marketing Department or PR were "Vanilla Product" (meaning 'starting point'), or "Soup to Nuts" (meaning you got the whole freaking job done and then deliver to the customer what they were expecting!). Hardly 'Rocket Science' - (don't know what the what the Marketing or PR called that!!) So today I think all of my hatred of anything like this is due to the fact that I am so far away from it I can see how pathetic it is. Thankfully the two fingers of each hand symbol has become outdated - now we simply use one hand and turn the fingers around!!

My 'Man of Many Contradictions' has recently got a new Job Title, (as opposed to a new job!). What does he do? Well I hate when people ask me that, because quite frankly I don't understand his job. He works for a major telecommunications company, and makes deals happen between his company and other companies/corparations, and his customers are in the financial institutions. Is that not a major dinner-party conversation stopper?!?! Anyway the thing that makes me believe that I could never work for a company like my MOMC works for is his new 'job title' ... Wait for it ..... He is now called a "Rain-Maker".

Pause ... Read it again ... Yes that was correct what you read!! "Rain-Maker"!!

(I think I will need to re-read the John Grisham novel to understand the meaning).

The best one I heard today though, was how the police are treating politically correctness by changing their wording of certain processes. Apparently if you are "Brain-Storming" you are being cruel to sufferers of epilepsy! Now you need to say "I am Thought-Showering". I kid you not!! Well, I am so 'Showered with Thought' just now, that I think I have to finish this post. Are there any more examples out there? I would love to hear them!!