Don't tell 'em Pike

[d_Guy]

Your descriptive powers have not ebbed nor lost their edge.

In my part of the States, we say "sit-chee-a-shun".

[Ithoriel]

As a professional librarian working in IT I did sometimes feel that attempts were being made to blind me with science. 

As the library's IT Guy I insisted on situation reports direct from the suppliers rather than filtered through the IT department, in the event of problems.

We had an outage with one of our IBM servers and the guy who fixed it was still on site so I asked for a verbal situation report so I could update the management team as soon as possible.

His verbal report was that there had been an "out of range thermal event in an air movement device", or words to that effect.

That's "a fan caught fire" to most of us.

[Leon]

Though I do dislike the misuse/skunking of "literally".

Argh!  It's literally being used by literally everyone to describe, literally, non-literal events...

 

[FierceKitty]

Good, plain, straight talk - call a spade a bio-mechanical agri-funereal fossorial excavator.

[Raider4]

It's the French one we need to worry about, anyway.

It's alright - the Popular Front won. Don't know what happened to the People's Front. Splitters! 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's alright - the Popular Front won. Don't know what happened to the People's Front. Splitters!

But not enough to form a government

Annoying language - starting every sentance with "so", and the phrase "take on board"

[FierceKitty]

Vive la France.

[Last Hussar]

So Kermit, you want me to re-orientate my forward facing activities to take on board your non-optimal responses?

[Techno 3]

Annoying language - starting every sentance with "so",

+1.....ARGHHHHH !!!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

So Kermit, you want me to re-orientate my forward facing activities to take on board your non-optimal responses?

Erm BOG OFF

[Last Hussar]