Conference Connoisseurs Mugs

"Just one more site!" "I'm totally, like, in control!" "I can quit anytime I feel like it..."

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

"But I see you're having difficulty following my argument."

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

Men gossiping

'Who's the new guy?'

"I guess when your husband dies you'll really understand what they mean by a statistical death."

Convention for People Who Like to Attend Conventions.

"No, no, that’s in a bar, Mr. President — you can talk politics and religion here."

I'd like to talk about absenteeism.

'You think he overheard my last lecture on tax code revision?'

Don't you worry JB, everything is fine here.

"I like them. They hate the same things we do."

"Nope! He'd never set eyes on a water cooler in all his years in the office!"

'Would the person who's inhaling the very life out of this meeting please stop it right now?'

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

"Remember this? One sweetheart of a deal!"

'Yeah, but this time she just said no -- there wasn't any hysterical laughter!'

Conclave.

"I said, you know why women talk more than men?" "What?" "I said, you know why women talk more than men..." "What?"

Bookshop: Our Bestsellers - Empty Phrases

White Wine Wisdom (2)

"We should probably talk about the elephant in the Roomba."

"I was really impressed by the way you sent back the wine, though it did come in second to the waiter's uppercut."

'I need to appear bold and decisive. Won't someone PLEASE ask me a yes or no question?'

" . . . and white, not yellow. Block, not shredded. Aged, but not too aged that it doesn't slice well."

"Well, for starters, Matt has been showing definite improvement in risk-taking."

'I'm afraid turn out isn't as high as we'd expected...three of them misheard the date, five got the time wrong and everyone from marketing went to a hotel in Norwich by mistake.'

The End of the Worker Bees

Due to obsessive and intrusive attention by the Media, this news conference will be cancelled

"Hold that afterthought!"

"It's a fair COP26."

'You do obscenity very well. Can you talk without being obscene as well?'