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plooptionary - Day 4

plooptionary - ploop’s weasel words and bullshit phrases fresh from the reeking bowels of consultants. (3 of 100)

Plooptionary_2 Today’s phrase comes from an aviation consultant called Richard who is fed up of the way he was treated at networking events.

* "To feed in": The context here is an industry networking event for the airline industry.  Morris Delaway runs a hugely succesful avaiation consultancy and is uncomfortable trying to win new business.  You see, Morris isn’t convinced his life or conversation are interesting enough to wow new clients.  Richard is a junior exec and people seem to like him.  Realising that the competition are moving in on a potentially big client, Morris shuffles up to HR Director Becki Lealle who’s green, in the eye department only. "Becki, XWP consulantcy look like they’re getting on very well with Smith-Richardson from Oz airlines - I wonder if you could feed in Richard to put a spoiler on it?"

Thaks for all your words and phrases - keep them coming.

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  1. Oh god, I am going to be rude again.

    I wish to raise the issue of the “”"”" two faced nature of business”"”"

    GULP, I’ve said it, I have the ultimate description of toooffff…aced behaviour.

    CONTEXT: Boss WOT don’t like his subordinate who is paid-a-lot.

    BOSS, “Hey Buddy how’s it going? I was thinking about your career path and wondering if you have outgrown [ XYZ PLC]”

    VICTIM, “hey there GOOD buddy I know how much you care about my professional development, are you telling me to go for the vacant [managerial post]?”

    BOSS, ” Listen good pal: a piece of advice, I’ve always admired you… listen you’re tooo good for this organisation - yeah? so if I were you tI’d be looking for an alternative post…

    The BUZZ WORD is

    GRIN FUCKING

    Good night and I thank you

    1. Ad on March 5th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

  2. This is my first posting but i’ve been reading for a while…

    … it was a little like that with pornography. Took a while to acclimatise from the sidelines but i never regretted taking the plunge… probably a bit too much information for one’s first post but never mind. i’m assuming we’re amongst friends here.

    my contribution to the plooptionary comes from the world of voice over work which i sometimes frequent.

    “tear the arse out of it” Jake is one i’ve heard several times.

    Now, you might think this is actually something i heard in another part of my life but no, it’s voiceover direction for - “read it quickly and loudly” in the hope that if it’s fast enough and noisy enough then viewers of the programme might just mistake it for a glitch and not take in it’s vacuous and grammatically disastrous meaning.

    ‘perhaps you’ve got one more in you’ Jake? is another one. And no, this isn’t another reference to my other line of work but a gentle nudge from an inexperienced director who hasn’t got the balls to tell you directly that your previous take was rubbish and please, please do it again.

    These two can be combined:
    eg. ‘Perhaps you’ve got one more in you Jake. I tell you what why don’t you tear the arse out of it this this time’

    Actually reading that back (and i know i keep trying to steer this post away from the sex industry - apologies) that last comment was said to me on the set of a little seen raunchy Dutch Classic which they told me was guaranteed a theatical release but went straight to DVD. Ah, an actors life. the things we do.

    2. Jake Mayle on March 5th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

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