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Fruit of the Boom

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ABC News has published an "exclusive" series of photographs identified as the customized undergarments of a fellow who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane over the holidays with the explosive PETN.

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This is the creepiest wide-distribution media image I can remember seeing for many years. What distasteful internet parodies and fetish riffs may yet come?

What better way to round out this scorched and shitty decade than to gaze thoughtfully into the charred, soiled underpants of a stranger. A troubled young man who seems to have hated America only as much as he hated his own junk.

EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Bomb (ABC NEWS)

Officespeak

After being in the IT industry for a bit less than 5 years (spread over TCS & IBM), I have come across more than my share of "Officespeak". Here's a list of stuff that I find cliched/funny -

Communication phrases

  • touch base
  • ping her
  • stand on his head
  • shoot a mail
  • drop a mail
  • revert back
  • take it offline

 

Action Phrases

  • proactive
  • prioritize
  • take ownership
  • thinking out of the box
  • getting on top of it
  • synergize
  • raise the bar
  • value add
  • leverage
  • hit the ground running
  • deep dive
  • empower
  • ramp up
  • win-win
  • pulling up our socks
  • escalate
  • brings to the table
  • moving forward
  • cost cutting
  • table that

 

Nouns

  • lessons learnt
  • deliverables
  • bandwidth
  • same page
  • agenda
  • action items
  • show stopper
  • resources
  • bullet points
  • best practices
  • EOD (end of day)
  • roadmap
  • SPOC (single point of contact)
  • COB (close of business)

 

Misc

  • sweets at desk 095
  • happy weekend

This is still work-in-progress. Suggestions to this list are welcome.