Terminology Gifts

"Come on into my office, twitters, and let's get right down to mumbo jumbo"

'I hope you didn't feel uncomfortable about me correcting you on your first day!'

"You call them slaves. I call them a support group."

Surgeon finds a doohickey on the patient's thingamabob.

'Today the stock market was moribund, as growth equities sputtered and bonds dipped due to the inverted yield curve. I'd translate that into layman's terms...but they don't pay me enough.'

'Uh-oh... when mom calls me by my full latin species name, I'm in big trouble.'

I think he's joking. "Placebo" can't be a real medical science term. It sounds like a funny name for a clown.

"...and you call yourself a computational immunotox-pharmacological an-diffracctiion bimolecular therapeutic ononclonal-antibody genomic metabolic-endocrinologist."

'I want my ideas called 'concepts' not 'notions'.'

"...and here's where we ran out of Latin."

"Why 'Black Death'? Why not 'rodent-related'?"

"I see the man who invented autocorrect has died."

What is this? "Entada Gigas." Okay. And that is "Eunectes Murinus." Yikes! "Pygocentrus Nattereri"! Gasp! Oh, heavens, "Panthera Onca"! Can you put all of this in layman's terms? "It's a jungle out there"!

"Hibernation sounds old fashioned. Now we call it binge sleeping."

Coldwater Canyon and the Fowl Remains

The first case of a homonym creating confusion. All these species --- How will we ever classify them all? File 'em.

'This is serious. I think our area of expertise lacks a buzzword.'

'It's a knock-knock joke.'

"I wanted to study etymology, but turned up for the wrong interview."

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Tragedy Strikes at the Linnaean Society Picnic

'I'm tired - let's outsource dinner tonight.'

Caveman Dictionaries

"Hello, I'm Clifton Latimer."

"I worked my whole career to get a chair, and this is it?!"

"… and this one too, doc — 'university' is definitely spelled wrong."

'It was a trememdous piece of surgery!...'

"Legal supplies? That would be aisle nine, article six, subsection G."

'I'm sure that last ball was lbw.'

"Stop the presses - they've just redefined masculinity!"

I'm with biped.

When Chairs Attack

"I'm not a scaredy-cat - I'm phobic."

''Lying' is such a harsh word, your honor. We prefer to call it 'testimony without borders.''

'What you refer to as looky-looks is classified as insider trading.'