Review Committee Member Gifts

"I volunteer to chair the 'Loyalty Review Board'."

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

'Hanson - committee of four.'

"With an average vote of 3.5 stars, the legislation is passed."

'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."

"These fourth grade marks are confusing...I got a B on the assignment, so is that like a smiley face or a star?"

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

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

'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."

'I preferred her in the margarine commercial.'

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

Plain English group.

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

"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!"

"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..."

'Mistakes were made...'

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

"All As? Are you hacking into the school's records again?"

At the Penguin fishing school: 'Gunvald has set the bar kind of high, gang!'

"Writing that book was a real strain."

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

"Sure you can see my report card but I'll have to charge you for shipping and handling."

'Just one criticism of you review of last night's opening play - you omitted to mention that the theatre burnt down while you were supposed to be there!'

"I'm doing just fine ??" as long as no one decides to do a background check."

"Time! Ladies and gentlemen please, for yet another probe into the brewing industry"

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

"What - you got As in Maths, Nature, Science and English? Son, haven't you watched the news or looked online - if you want to succeed nowadays you have to be dumb as dirt!"

'That's it, in a nutshell.'

'Excellent - it's unanimous!'

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

'Straight A's. That means good.'