Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Currently taking a break at the midpoint of a long meeting, in which the phrase “put a stake in the ground” was uttered no less than twelve times in an hour and a half.
That makes two tents pitched so far. Maybe we’ll have a whole campground by the time we’re finished.
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I’ll come camping. This week is exhausting. All I want are green places and a book. It can rain. I’ll stay in the tent. Yes?
I remember being in a meeting last year in which the phrase “lowest hanging fruit” was similarly overused. It made me think of monkeys.
My favorite workplace phrase was when my old boss, an imposing Italian guy who could have easily been head of the cosanostra, would say, “stick a fork in it.”
Uh oh, you ratted him out.
“It means tonight jet sleeps with the fishes.”
sometimes I get stake and steak mixed up, so when I read this, you were burying cuts of meat. It was amusing.
heart!
Putting steaks in the ground! Keep your hands off my meat!
I didn’t just say that! Help!
The circus is coming to town!