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Monthly Archives: March 2007

plooptionary - 10th of 100 absurd business phrases

plooptionary - ploop’s weasel words and bullshit phrases fresh from the reeking bowels of consultants. (9 of 100)
Today’s phrase elegantly covers up for both a lack of knowledge AND a total disregard for other people’s strengths.
“*get a mechanic on it” - The context here is a card makers called Make Them Smile in the week […]

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Did someone say they had a plooptionary?

OK - imagine you wanted to make a point that business phrases really, really hacked you off.
Turning up in a board meeting, estate agents office etc with one of these would be priceless … who’s going to offer to make one up?
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Crap TV - deconstructed

For the time starved, here’s a graphical synopsis of the post below.  Upload to your brain and press the red button and you’ve saved yourself the 29 seconds it would take to read the post.  Plenty of time for a web 2.0 twitter mashup …

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tv |
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Who’s the racist?

a vision of TV not too many years from now
ITV 8. 2030-2300 - Who’s the Racist?
One-off social experiment come celebrity reality TV show where well-know names from the stage and screen (ie: that bloke from the Halifax advert, those ‘real people’ who do the Homebase adverts and Cillit Bang’s Barry Scott) are put through their paces […]

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plooptionary - 9th of 100 idiotic business phrases

plooptionary - ploop’s weasel words and bullshit phrases fresh from the reeking bowels of consultants. (9 of 100)
 I think today’s plooptionary phrase never really got the blanket coverage it deserved.  Jamie Cullen, its owner, was poisoned by an exasperated employee before he could offer the phrase for sale to the consultancy community.  Jamie also sold […]

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