Jargon Jouster Pillows

MD trash talk... "Your mama is so dumb, she doesn't know endopeptidase from endopericarditis."

"You legal babbled in your sleep all night."

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

"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!"

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

"...but the big question is, does the competition know that we don't know what we don't know?"

"We need a best practice swim lane to leverage our core competency, move the needle outside the box, and open the kimono while keeping our ducks in a row. Can anyone give me a sustainable solution to more vertical effectiveness without getting too granula

Surgeon finds a doohickey on the patient's thingamabob.

"We have an acronym!"

"Better than a business model, I have a business scheme."

"We don't call them 'horns' anymore. They're interactive audio crash deterrent stimulators."

"It's a new target to target a time to reduce targets so that we'll be less target driven!"

A Bloody Butcher

"I feel like pushing the envelope this morning, honey, starting with a little grape jelly for that bran muffin."

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"I never accomplish the impossible, if I did it would become an expectation."

"It's time to retire the word 'profit'."

"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.'

'Excellent!...We've been looking to hire someone who can think outside the box.'

'Would everyone please phrase their questions in ones and zeros please.'

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

'Technically, I was making fun of your writing ability.'

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

'A High-pain job? Yes, I believe we have that.'

"...our Annual Report has been criticised for lack of clarity - well done!"

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

"It's a swearbox."

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

'Sorry to interrupt Dixon - but this is not what I meant when I said this company needed more blue-sky thinking!'

"I was downgraded to junk status at work today."

"There's a conversation to be had around a piece of work I'd like us to do tonight."