Terminology Critic Gifts

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

Master's Degrees of the Universe

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

Down With Wikipedia

"My Twitter account isn't too interesting. It's mostly just a bunch of threats."

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

Patent Office: ". . . It's a phoneless cord."

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

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

'In and/or out' sign on door of department of philosophy

NYer uploaded by mod - Pistachio Terminology 2022

"'Holy cow... She can't spell for #!@*. Is that a 'T' or an 'L'? This entire letter is a grammatical nightmare!"

"So if I'm to understand you correctly, this 'engineered athletic footwear' with its 'extended torsion system' is also a sneaker?"

"If elected, I'll institute an AMAZING CRASH PROGRAM that in JUST 24 HOURS will trim ugly fat and waste from government and literally turn it into SUPER SERVICES for you the AMERICAN PEOPLE by utilizing a NATURAL MECHANISM so powerful that when unleashed

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

'You go ahead. We'll rejoin you when you start using new technology.'

"You boys! Stop using parliamentary language in the playground!"

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

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

Cull anyone who says "at the end of the day" or "To cut a long story short" more than once in a conversation.

Head of meaningless platitudes

Van Gogh on Instagram.

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

'He's the sort of person who asks, 'How are you?' and then looks bored when you tell him.'

'Pedantic? He's the only person I know who insists on calling it a hippoPOTAMUS!'

Art gallery - way out / not so way out.

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

"What would I call your rash in lay terms? How about 'yeeech!'"

"We could've used a better font..."

GOP State of the Union response.

"I let 'Think Outside the Box' go, but I must draw the line at 'Thought Spill'."

"You might call it a coup d'etat Mr President, but I like to think of it as 'Change Management'."

"The networks are losing share and you sit there reading?"

The team had decided that strict sanctions should be imposed upon users of terms like 'target orientated'.