drummerdad Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) I dont know if its been mentioned already,but what about...BAE. I guess it is supposed to mean Before Anyone Else? I see it in memes all over the place. It makes me want to kick a puppy. Edited February 20, 2016 by drummerdad wording Quote
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) I dont know if its been mentioned already,but what about...BAE. I guess it is supposed to mean Before Anyone Else? I see it in memes all over the place. It makes me want to kick a puppy. Hmmm. I always thought BAE was this. Guess I don't know much. http://www.baesystems.com/en/home?r=USAnd incidentally, they're a company that overuses another one of my most-hated business-speak terms..."solutions"."Solutions" has been worked to death since, I guess, the mid '90s, for products and services ranging from septic-tank pumping to military vehicles.Please stop, and just call things what they are. Edited February 20, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy Quote
SfanGoch Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 Slide over and make some room at the bar. I thought the same. The way things are going, Linear B is poised to make a comeback. Quote
Snake45 Posted February 20, 2016 Author Posted February 20, 2016 "Solutions" has been worked to death since, I guess, the mid '90s, for products and services ranging from septic-tank pumping to military vehicles.Please stop, and just call things what they are. A nice neighborhood mom started a home business called "Basket Solutions." I tried and tried and tried to think of ANY problem in my life for which a basket would be a good solution. I failed to come up with one. Quote
Roadrunner Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 And yet another of my pet peeves; the financial "product". How can a monetary loan be a product? Quote
Snake45 Posted February 20, 2016 Author Posted February 20, 2016 And yet another of my pet peeves; the financial "product". How can a monetary loan be a product?You just reminded me: Calling buying a car (or other major outlay) an "investment." It's especially galling to have some young person tell you you should "protect your investment" by purchasing undercoating, floor mats, or an extended warranty. I like to tell such people that they obviously don't know what the word "investment" means. Quote
SfanGoch Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 A nice neighborhood mom started a home business called "Basket Solutions." I tried and tried and tried to think of ANY problem in my life for which a basket would be a good solution. I failed to come up with one.Well, a basket is good for.....for instance, you could...........maybe you can........ask her. This is her fault. What does that wiseacre yoot know? He probably uses a unicycle, skateboard, fixie or pogo stick for transportation. How many "investments" automatically lose 10% of their value as soon as you complete the purchase with the broker/seller and continue to devalue 10% annually thereafter? Quote
Harry P. Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 If you had to carry a bunch of Easter eggs and couldn't figure out how to do it, a basket might be a good solution... Quote
MrObsessive Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Hmmm... no sound...I'm getting sound Harry........... Quote
Kit Basher Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Thanks for that blast from the past, Joe. What a hoot! Quote
Crazy Ed Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Wow, what a great reminder of how Saturday Mornings used to be spent. Oh yea Joe were it not for Basket, "A Tisket a Tasket" wouldn't have had anything to rhyme with Quote
oldscool Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Eckspecially - is 'especially' so hard? Aks ("axe") - as in, "Aks me the question." Pacific -- "Aks me a pacific question." I used to see bumper stickers that had written on them "Aks me about ebonics". Quote
oldscool Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 Drove my "vee-hickle" to the "thee-ater"And after the movie I put it in reeverse and backed it into the raavine. Quote
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 21, 2016 Posted February 21, 2016 (edited) And after the movie I put it in reeverse and backed it into the raavine....and den da poleese dun tooked me away, even doh I tols em da car was mines. Edited February 21, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy Quote
Belugawrx Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 "As well too"...and ...minimal ... mini mo.... ouch ! Quote
High octane Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 I am cursed with such an accent. My family is country through and through, from rural West TN, and everyone in it (except my mom. who has a strong old NC tidal accent) talks like it. But from childhood I have talked like Walter Cronkite. No one in my family can explain it. We didn't have a TV when I was a kid. But I remember being about five years old and my grandmother making fun calling me a Yankee. All my life, folks ask where I'm from. People get it into their head that I'm from the north, the west, the east, whatever. Every time my company moves me to a new store or job in Memphis, I have to explain all over again I'm born and raised here. But when I worked in IL an WI, folks there thought I was from somewhere on the other side of the Midwest.Funny thing is, with my generic accent and all, I recognize accents very well. I used to be able to tell what county in TN you were from, or if you were MS, or AL, or GA or TX. But accents everywhere have changed in my lifetime. Heck, I had friends when I was a teen who talked sorta like me, but when Dukes of Hazzard became a hit, they all started talking like Cooter - and still do. But what I hate more than anything is that the old North Carolina accent is disappearing. I've always loved it, but rarely hear it unless I'm seeing some old documentary on Youtube.When I was in South Carolina a few years back with my better half, I really liked the way the young waitresses would talk y'all. Quote
Tom Geiger Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 Not a word or phrase but an observation that bugged the heck out of me..Last night my family went to a decently nice restaurant to celebrate both my wife and daughter's birthdays. The majority of the diners are all dressed nicely, as if they are out for a nice dinner on a Saturday night. There are some people who are dressed a bit less than casual, and that seems to be normal these days, whether it be a restaurant, church or even a court appearance. So I let that go. The thing that IRKED me was the numpties sitting in this fine dining establishment wearing baseball caps! Now I get the bald thing, I'm there myself and I own my fair share of caps. I will wear one when I go outside in direct sunlight, especially in the summer, so I don't fry the top of my head. But I was always taught that gentlemen remove their hats indoors. There wasn't a single woman with a hat on in this restaurant, but I scanned the place and there were three guys wearing their baseball caps as they dined. One even had his on backwards. What is up with these guys? Never mind the clueless guys... what is wrong with the women they were with, that they didn't tell them to take the fricken hat off?!?! Quote
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 (edited) Now I get the bald thing, I'm there myself...Now Tom, we can't be using the "b" word anymore. The politically-correct term is "follicularly challenged", or, depending on the degree of the challenge, "comb free".Please make a note of these replacements for future reference. NOTE: It has also come to our attention you persist in using the word "clueless". Please substitute the term "factually unemcumbered" in any subsequent communications. Edited February 22, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy Quote
Crazy Ed Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 How's 'out "Developing a Wide Part"....... Quote
SfanGoch Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 Also known as "a hole in your hair". Quote
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