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Mr. Pickles said:
OMGoodness
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My stepmother's sister, who is insane (this will be evident as I type more), objected to my having used OMG once on Facebook (let it be known I did that ironically), because she said it took the lord's name in vain or some such.

But wait, there's more.  Someone pointed out that they thought OMG meant "oh my goodness," and she and her equally insane friends deemed that not acceptable either because it was just another way of saying the forbidden "oh my god" without using the "god" word itself.  Or some such.  

 
krista4 said:
My stepmother's sister, who is insane (this will be evident as I type more), objected to my having used OMG once on Facebook (let it be known I did that ironically), because she said it took the lord's name in vain or some such.

But wait, there's more.  Someone pointed out that they thought OMG meant "oh my goodness," and she and her equally insane friends deemed that not acceptable either because it was just another way of saying the forbidden "oh my god" without using the "god" word itself.  Or some such.  




 
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Shoot is #### with two 2 "O's" - George Carlin

 
krista4 said:
My stepmother's sister, who is insane (this will be evident as I type more), objected to my having used OMG once on Facebook (let it be known I did that ironically), because she said it took the lord's name in vain or some such.

But wait, there's more.  Someone pointed out that they thought OMG meant "oh my goodness," and she and her equally insane friends deemed that not acceptable either because it was just another way of saying the forbidden "oh my god" without using the "god" word itself.  Or some such.  
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Every day when I wake up I thank God that I am not on FaceBook

(For the slow folks at home, I don't really)

 
Something that I've been seeing all over the internet lately ... beginning a sentence with "But [comma]."

Contrary to what your tenth-grade English teacher might have told you, beginning a sentence with "But" is legit. It's way better than beginning a sentence with "However" -- precisely because introducing an independent clause with "However" requires the use of a yawn-inducing, flow-killing comma. Don't begin sentences with "However." "However" is for the middle of a sentence, or the end.

Beginning a sentence with "But," however, is snappy. It gets us straight to the point. It is crisp, yet modest, yet businesslike. But not if it's followed by a comma!

 
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Maurile Tremblay said:
Something that I've been seeing all over the internet lately ... beginning a sentence with "But [comma]."

Contrary to what your tenth-grade English teacher might have told you, beginning a sentence with "But" is legit. It's way better than beginning a sentence with "However" -- precisely because introducing an independent clause with "However" requires the use of a yawn-inducing, flow-killing comma. Don't begin sentences with "However." "However" is for the middle of the sentence, or the end.

Beginning a sentence with "But," however, is snappy. It gets us straight to the point. It is crisp,  yet modest, yet businesslike. But not if it's followed by a comma!
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Well, hello Mr. Fancypants.

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
Something that I've been seeing all over the internet lately ... beginning a sentence with "But [comma]."

Contrary to what your tenth-grade English teacher might have told you, beginning a sentence with "But" is legit. It's way better than beginning a sentence with "However" -- precisely because introducing an independent clause with "However" requires the use of a yawn-inducing, flow-killing comma. Don't begin sentences with "However." "However" is for the middle of the sentence, or the end.

Beginning a sentence with "But," however, is snappy. It gets us straight to the point. It is crisp,  yet modest, yet businesslike. But not if it's followed by a comma!
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Why are you such a prude? Just start the sentence with ###.

 
I heard this today in a meeting and I'm currently conducting internet research to figure out what it means:

"The objection of avoidance is a red ocean statement."

 
17seconds said:
I heard this today in a meeting and I'm currently conducting internet research to figure out what it means:

"The objection of avoidance is a red ocean statement."




 
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Sure sounds like a pretentious ### hole.  

I think he/she is trying to say something about avoiding an objection in the sales process is not being creative in their sales efforts.  

What a ####.   

 
On a conference call where where a guy said he wouldn't be available on Wednesday for another call but then corrected himself by saying he did have some "windshield time."  I assume this is time in the car?  WTF?

 
17seconds said:
I heard this today in a meeting and I'm currently conducting internet research to figure out what it means:

"The objection of avoidance is a red ocean statement."
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Wow.  What outside the box, paradigm-shifting, disruptive insight!

One minute off Googling makes me what to the kick the author of "Blue Ocean Strategies" in the nuts. 

 
Can't remember if these have been brought up by me before but they came up again on a conference call a few minutes ago.  'Heavy lift' and 'bandwidth'.

"This project is going to be a heavy lift, are you sure you have the bandwidth over the next month?"

:rant:

 
Hov34 said:
How's it going?

Living the dream!

Go #### yourself.
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I just got off of a call that was a group of people where I was and a group in a room on the other end. I heard someone on the other end ask this gripe about everything lady "hey Karen, how's it going?" Karen - "oh just living the dream" - I busted out laughing and thought of this post! Wish they would have ninja kicked her throat 

 
I've started making up my own.  Today I asked a coworker to look something up for me.  He comes back with the answer, I say "as long as you've got the top down, can you look up X as well?"

a car metaphor, as it were

 
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