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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Those of you that
have to tolerate buzzwords in meetings, I suggest making up your own. Especially as they will have no idea what you mean by them.

Extra points if you can get them using the phrases. I'm going to start the ball rolling with

"We need to squeeze the teabag and add the milk"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 10:31, 13 replies)
another
"the party-baloons are deflating as we speak"

Edit: and another
"Apply the cream and see what stings"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 10:39, closed)
Wise up people
we don't want to reach for a beaver but grab a chipmunk.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 10:58, closed)
hahaha! I like the blatant innuendo.
(Can you get blatant innuendo?)

Light the blue-touch paper and retreat.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:00, closed)
It's blatant when it's
rammed down your throat.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:04, closed)

And touches the bottom.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:09, closed)
This should be a QoTW.
The second one is actually valid when I consider some of the meetings I have attended with some of our more esoteric Merkin managers.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 10:59, closed)
more
we need to see if Cheggers does indeed play pop.

'blue-bin thinking' (recycling same old trash)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:03, closed)
"Blue-bin thinking"
I hope you don't mind, but I shall steal that and use it as often as I can.

It made me genuine living room LOL.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:10, closed)
Blue bin thinking - that's brilliant
Thank you! Will be used tomorrow at about 9.17am when the first idiot asks "whaddaya reckon you guys, will it fly or will it FLY!"

Happily anticipates, yippee
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 12:43, closed)
I like this but let's not forget to sellotape the hampster

(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:08, closed)
Not me but an ex boss
www.b3ta.com/questions/buzzwords/post688991
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:08, closed)
I used 'lies like a hairy egg'
Mrs Sandettie replied "you got that off B3ta didn't you?"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:19, closed)
working with 3d graphics i have no need to make up new buzzwords. I have plenty to abuse
i need to increase the samples on the final gather to increase the ambient occlusion so that it interacts correctly with the dialectic materials and the subsurface scattering objects. Is a perfectly valid sentence where i work.

Why am i surfing b3ta rather than working? Rendering.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:29, closed)

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