My pet neck-hair erector is "leveraged". As in "we leveraged the deal and made them give us their lunch money".
Leverage=noun
Leveraged=pompous moron
Leverage=noun
Leveraged=pompous moron
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Fri, April 16, 2004 - 7:05 AMYes, the ever popular noun as verb strikes again. Any others? -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Fri, April 16, 2004 - 12:56 PMAs far as I can tell, it means reused, but tries to give that all-important sense of motion.
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Fri, April 16, 2004 - 10:26 PMCongratulations on the phrase, "my pet neck-hair erector."
I like it! -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Tue, May 18, 2004 - 9:29 PMMy peevers: "Solutions", "applications", "public-private partnership", "best practices", "highest and best use". Maybe I'm shading away from the intent of the question, but I'll risk it. [Note the period falling outside of the final quotes; no specific person is being quoted, the marks there indicate a technical term or "term of art".] -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Tue, May 18, 2004 - 9:37 PMMy favorite is "Fresh" Fish.
Are we just Saying the fish is fresh? -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Tue, May 18, 2004 - 11:28 PMFresh versus frozen or canned or salted or otherwise preserved?
Or am I missing your point? I must be. -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Wed, May 19, 2004 - 12:34 AMI believe Qatana and I share a peeve - the horrific misuse of quotes as a means of emphasis. As though underlining or using a different color font were just so VERY much bother to these poor dears. This nasty habit results in such remarkable specimens as:
"Roses" only $12.99! (I drive by this sign every day and am dying to know what the hell they're passing off as roses.)
New and "improved" (we slapped a new label on it and upped the price 30%)
Special "student" rate (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
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"Thread" continued
Wed, May 19, 2004 - 7:20 AM"'Student' rate" makes sense to me--they're winking at all you aging sophomores with your battered ID cards.
There's a decades-old 24-hour bowling alley in my neighborhood. Cool place. In the last couple years [separate discussion: 'couple of years'], they've finally edited the large sign that formerly read:
BOWLING IS "FUN"
It appears they convinced themselves after all. =)
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Wed, May 19, 2004 - 7:30 AMYou'd think I would have gotten that, actually, I have a boss who sends out "Draft" letters and "Revised" letters. It was fruitless to argue about it any more, so I submitted.
Urgh. -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Fri, May 21, 2004 - 4:58 PMIs surrounding a word or phrase with ~ really supposed to look like decorative scrolling? -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Sat, May 22, 2004 - 3:15 PMApproximately.
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Mon, May 24, 2004 - 12:40 AMI still like using the tilde the way it was introduced to me in symbolic logic: as a 'not' sign. ~p, the opposite of the statement symbolized by p. What is it the computer geeks use, an exclamation point? -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 11:56 AM~ is negating each bit, ! is negating the whole value treated as 0 for false and anything else for true.
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Thu, May 27, 2004 - 1:01 PMThose quotes get me too. Although sometimes they induce a pleasent altered state as I try to understand what they mean in context.
"Free" is a good one. What is the secret price? -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Sun, May 30, 2004 - 12:49 PMThe chowder I'm eating at this very moment is made with "fresh clams and potatoes"! It's a "chowder lover's delight"!
And those quotes have survived at least one label redesign... -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Sun, May 30, 2004 - 12:57 PMAnd you're still Eating It? -
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Re: Hanging is too good for these people
Wed, June 2, 2004 - 11:06 AMHell, you try finding a halfway decent chowder in Minnesota.
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