Terminology Mugs

"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.'

"...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."

Coldwater Canyon and the Fowl Remains

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

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

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

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'It's a knock-knock joke.'

Tragedy Strikes at the Linnaean Society Picnic

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

"Hello, I'm Clifton Latimer."

Caveman Dictionaries

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

When Chairs Attack

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

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

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

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

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

"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.'

"Let's go William! Get your head in the game!"

"Did you know the word 'faith' is a linguistic blend of the Latin words 'faigus' and 'phytolith'? Don't question it. Just believe me."