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Old 10-31-2005, 09:07 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FngKestrel
All those damn catch phrases at work, never liked them:
"Touch base..."
"Going forward..."
"Action items..."
"Bandwidth..."
work lingo is great because no one dares laugh at the people using it. there was a column in the Onion quite a while ago entirely written in this format.
here's the story i recalled: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33222
here's a similar story for the heck of it: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28292
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