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Mon Aug-23-04 11:17 AM
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What one cliche phrase can you do without? |
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Mine is "think out of the box". Why not just say "Be creative."
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:18 AM
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1. i couldn't do without "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" |
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:21 AM
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5. Corollory: Let's not "reinvent the wheel." |
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:19 AM
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never sure if that is supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:20 AM
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:21 AM
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4. I can't stand the "my bad" phrase. I hope it's about run its course. |
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:21 AM
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:26 AM
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8. heh: and the "take home message is...." |
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:22 AM
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7. I agree on "think out of the box" ...usually uttered by close-minded, |
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ass-kissing, automatons who NEVER think "out of the box."
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:26 AM
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9. Classic MB Flame: "Your mom's basement" |
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Lame tactic, overused, irrelevant.
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:29 AM
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10. "Let's agree to disagree" |
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"Let's agree to disagree"
It's the most inane phrase that has ever been thought up. It HATE it! x(
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:38 AM
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11. I like "think outside the box." It doesn't mean be creative |
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It means to look beyond the paradigm that we live in...not the same as creativity which can occur within the paradigm.
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:40 AM
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12. Yes, that's what it is... but people who use it ad nauseum have no idea |
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what you're talking about. :D
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:42 AM
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To rip a page from the "spanking" thread...beat it into them :evilgrin:
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:44 AM
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:44 AM
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14. "The Go-Forward Plan" |
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Not sure how cliche it is, or how heavily used. But where I work, I hear it all the time.
And I just want to scream, "Aren't ALL plans 'go-forward' plans? Are there any other kinds of plans? Have you idiots been working on 'go-backward' plans? Is that why we need a 'go-forward' plan to begin with?"
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:51 AM
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19. I hate "going forward". |
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I had a boss at my old job who used that phrase constantly. Whatever happened to "from now on"??
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:49 AM
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:51 AM
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18. Uh oh... I say that all the time... |
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Why do you hate it so? :)
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:54 AM
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Also qualifying is the more specific, "Have a nice day."
For heaven's sake, stop lapsing into cliché and say something original.
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:56 AM
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21. Well, sheesh... excuse me... |
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I guess I'll have to come up with something more original than "Hello" when I answer the phone as well. :eyes:
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Mon Aug-23-04 11:49 AM
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and every variation on Snoop speak. Enough, you're white, you live in Missouri. Get over it.
"Workin' hard or hardly workin'?" is the one that has me shopping for flame throwers, though.
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Mon Aug-23-04 12:20 PM
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Besides the fact that the cliche bores me anyway, it is especially unpleasant because it is usually used to justify useless bullshit meetings: "I just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page." Yeah, boss, eat me.
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Mon Aug-23-04 12:23 PM
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23. "Take it to the next level" |
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I was going to say "get on the same page" but someone beat me to it. I used to have a manager who used to urge us, within the space of two minutes to "think outside the box", "get on the same page" and "take it to the next level". Drove me nuts.
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Mon Aug-23-04 12:24 PM
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24. "We're turnin' the corner!" |
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Mon Aug-23-04 12:26 PM
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25. not phrases, but these are uttered waaaay too often in sports: |
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upside. "He's got a lot of upside." (They all do. That's why they get drafted. Could you imagine someone thinking, "well, we took him, even though he doesn't seem to bring much to us..."
adversity. How much adversity can one person have? gimme a damn break.
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Mon Aug-23-04 03:12 PM
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1) You can get just about anything 'on.' I'm a get my drink on. I'm a get my dance on. I'm a get my herb on. I'm a get my sleep on. It's played out.
2) "Played out"
3) "Leading edge"
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Mon Aug-23-04 03:31 PM
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I live in Texas so this one is heard often.
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:13 PM
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28. That someone "has too much on his plate" |
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That drives me nuts. I know a lot of us have too much to do, but I'm so sick of constantly hearing that phrase. And it's usually used by self-important people, subtly bragging about how in-demand they are, as they let you know they don't have any time for you and blow you off.
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