Committee Expert Gifts

"Motion denied then"

"So we are agreed then, most of the targets we've set staff are completely unreasonable and we should just scrap them."

"No luggage to check - I just have this carry on."

'Hanson - committee of four.'

'What we need is a decision, not more foot-dragging.'

"The state of graduates literacy levels is shoking and both my colleegs agrree that there maths isn't much better."

'It may not be our usual business lunch, but it will sure impress the hell out of the budget committee.'

"Hold everything! I just thought up a terrific loophole!"

'There's an absence of leadership in this authority,we need to explore the possibility of thinking about setting up a sub-committee to look into it.'

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

"There's no need to go round the table - I know who I am."

Plain English group.

'If at first you don't succeed, appoint a committee and let them worry about it.'

"I guess the point I'm trying to make is, calling the committee on Progress and Evolution a bunch of know-it-all nincompoops might have felt good when you said it, but..."

"The vote is tied. Half of us think the proposed plan is astoundingly asinine, and the other half finds it stupid beyond belief. Let's try to find a middle ground here, people!"

"The Board just wants to be sure you're well supported."

"The steering-committee three are we. Run it by us, and we'll see."

"Caption: we work in an office; however, we have dressed for the circus. What a humorous mixup."

'That's it, in a nutshell.'

'Excellent - it's unanimous!'

"The first goal of our ad hoc committee should be to learn Latin."

"I suppose the first thing to do is form an escape committee."

Senate ethics committee - no fatties!

'Ed here has some sort of problem with his membership on the visitation committee, Reverend.'

"Thanks a bunch. I'll just run these by our committee and pass them along."

'Before I read the investment committee's report - I would remind everyone that I never asked to be on this damn committee.'

Hudibras - 9 - The committee.

'I think we should form a committee to look into this 'individual initiative' thing.'

'Community wok?'

'We have 10 billion dollars sitting around. Let's give it to the country that calls the United States the most names.'

'Mr.Shumway here is our visiting ethicist.'

The Academic Brain, showing parts: teach, write, do research, and (the largest part) serve on committees.

'Before I read the investment committee's report - I would remind everyone that I never asked to be on this committee.'

'All those in favor of making more loans, raise your hands.' (staff's hands are tied to chairs).

"We're an oversight committee, but we do it more in the sense of overlooking."