Abbreviation Enthusiasts Prints

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

"This report is mumbo jumbo...I asked for gobbledeeegook!"

"For the girls—Kimberly, Caitlin, Lauren, Cindy, and Tracy. For the boys—Cameron, Christopher, Adam, Jeffrey, and Gregory."

Washington D.C., Acronym Capital of the World

"Our detractors call it suburban sprawl, but I prefer thinking of our plan as 'sustainable over-development!'"

Stressed employee says to colleague: 'I think I'm on top of the situation and I hope I'm in the loop, but I can't seem to get ahead of the curve.'

"Letters would be all right if they'd just let us leave them in alphabetical order."

"Here comes a client I must speak to. Excuse me while I slip into some jargon."

'And from what we've been able to determine, this is the tweak that broke the paradigm's back.'

'Why do they call him Neckline Ned.' - 'He's always plunging down the middle but never showing anything.'

"This is what we call a 'customer', or more accurately a 'potential profit centre.'"

"My resume is concise, succinct and eloquently worded. I only hope they know what I'm talking about."

'Why is it taking so long to eat your soup?'

'Instead of cubicles, we call them interconnected productivity centres.'

'We had to discontinue the alphabet soup, sir - Too many censorship problems.'

"I propose the next person who says 'it is what it is,' we beat the living hell out of him."

"Are you the one they call El Cóndor?"

"I liked it better when you used gobbledygook."

"I hear you've got quite a reputation with the girls around the office."

"Come to my office. I need to cascade with you offline."

Naming that Impala

"Mr. Thomaston's people are here to talk to your people."

'Lance, what does 'NSFW' stand for?'

'If we are to reorientate our forward facing rhetorical platform we must rephrase our message to cross fertilise the core message..holistically!'

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

Tom Cruise

"But this book is just the alphabet all jumbled up..."

"Look at this - we're trying to merge with some of our acquisitions, and we're trying to acquire some of our mergers."

'But it didn't cost anything, dear! I did it all off balance-sheet!'