Crassest exhortations

[Cycling Naturalist]

I come across a lot of rubbish and give you a few examples to get the thread moving:-

"We've got to do this for (name of someone you've never heard of)"

"Bring me the commitment."

"If you don't do this, you letting yourself and your client down."

(this can be modified to add, "your family, firm, Lodge, school and regiment" according to circumstances)

"I've given you the buzz - just do it."

 

[Arch]

"I've given you the buzz - just do it."

Used a lot among bees, I assume?

 

[Tim Bennet.]

"Forward chaps ! - For King and Country ! - If we put on a good show today, it will all be over by Christmas."

 

[Arch]

Not quite an exhortation, but people inventing verbs from other types of words.

Heard someone on Today this morning say "we've just farewelled our rugby team off to the championship..."

Farewelled? What happened to "said goodbye to"?

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Not sure what Patrick means so on the same train of thought as Arch:

XX was "outed" as a tory sympathiser.

Fernando Torres recently "penned" a deal worth around £26.5M

 

[Arch]

I think Patrick's really getting at stuff like "Right let's run this idea up the flagpole and see who salutes..."

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I think Patrick's really getting at stuff like "Right let's run this idea up the flagpole and see who salutes..."

let's have some blue sky thinking guys, try to think outside the box

 

[domtyler]

I think Patrick's really getting at stuff like "Right let's run this idea up the flagpole and see who salutes..."

Cool, I like that one. I'll see how many times I can use it this afternoon without being forced to exit the building through the eighth floor window.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Ah. In that case:

It's more about evolution than revolution.

We've just finished a section of a project that someone decided to call the "Modular Visualisation Phase".

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Ah. In that case:

It's more about evolution than revolution.

We've just finished a section of a project that someone decided to call the "Modular Visualisation Phase".

did it involve leveraging synergy in a partnership win-win scenario?

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

I got the "We've got to do this for X" from watching a documentary about estate agents (I was interested to see if they would manage to behave themselves with the cameras on them).

A woman estate agent was trying to stitch up a purchaser with some mortgage that paid even more commission than the seller was paying her and she kept exhorting everyone to "Do it for John." Actually, she was the one she wanted it doing for.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Brainstorm meeting.
That says to me the gaffer hasn't got a fekkin clue what he's doing and wants your ideas to make him look good
Human resources.
Is it bollix, its personnel, if it was human resources, the bloke who drove the extrusion press where I last worked would be sat in the MD's office and the MD would be pushing a broom.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

did it involve leveraging synergy in a partnership win-win scenario?

aye

 

[Baroudeur]

Love these. Remind me of the Fry and Laurie 'Damn Marjorie!!' sketches.

Favourite from personal experience is 'We've got to get all our ducks in a line.'

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Drill down hard on this one.