Medical Jargon Master Pillows

'Just watch - he'll use a lot of twenty-five dollar words for this two-bit procedure.'

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

"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!"

Surgeon finds a doohickey on the patient's thingamabob.

"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

"We have an acronym!"

"My report to the board was perfect. They did not understand a word of it and now think I'm smarter than them."

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

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

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

A Bloody Butcher

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

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

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.'

'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."

I love it when you speak Wall Streetese. Say 'to the upside' for me.

'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!"

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

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

"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!'

'It's easy, Greg. Just get in touch with your inner regional sales manager.'

"It's a swearbox."

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

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

"We're to stop talking about 'budget cuts'. Apparently it's depressing for staff and clients..."

"We were looking for somebody with experience in mumbo-jumbo but your resume is mainly about gobbledegook."

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

"I do like you, Peter, but interfacing is a very serious step."

"I'll start thinking outside the box when the box is empty."

"I liked it better when you used gobbledygook."