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

Plain English group.

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

'Excellent - it's unanimous!'

'I forget. Is this a committee meeting, a sub-committee meeting, a steering committee...'

'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).

"It's been over two weeks, and I'm starting to get concerned. Normally, when the committee jumps down a rabbit hole, they're back in a few hours."

'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.'

'And Mr Feldmore's mooning of the other committee members was interpreted as the only 'nay' vote...'

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

'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!'

"I'm happy to answer your question as soon as you stop asking it."

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

"Okay then, that's four 'yays' and one 'neigh'..."

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

'Congratulations - here's your black ball, you've been appointed to the membership committee,'

'We're playing musical chairs to choose committee appointments.'

'The committee's decided to call it 'The Club'.'

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

Man pulling a chair away before his colleague sits down in an ethics committee office.

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

Why Committees Move Slowly!

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

Yea, yea, yea, nay. The nays have it.

Hudibras - 9 - The committee.

Recycling Development Committee

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

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

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

Ordinary people trying to get something done, Inc.'

Modern Native American Names

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

Olympic meeting