I was in a meeting with our “internet resources group” when a couple of slides went up talking about our share of a certain business space. The titles on the slides? “Digital Penetration.” I looked around the room and I seemed to be the only one even thinking of reacting. So maybe it’s a common phrase?
[It reminds me of a couple of years ago when a consultant came in and presented a spiel to us. Near the end he said “here comes the money slide”, and I snorted. Nobody else seemed to find it funny.]
I was in a meeting where the ‘big wig’ was complaining about a database and kept saying “Why the H*** can’t they just take a dump and sort this out?” Everone on the project was exhausted and by the third time he talked about how we just needed to take a good dump and start over, people started loosing it.
Sometimes there just isn’t enough oxygen in the air… that’s what we blamed it on.
When I worked at Borders, the monthly Waldenbooks planning meeting was and endless source of hilarity with its discussion of [del]stuffed animal[/del] “plushie” giveaways. Me and this one other girl would be snickering and elbowing each other every time someone said “plushie”, but no one else seemed to find anything funny about it.
Ok, the database and marketing terms upthread, I got.
This one…a plushie is a stuffed animal. So…what other meanings does it have that I’ve been probably blissfully unaware of?
We had a patient come in who was a little old lady with a hip fracture. There wasn’t really anything else wrong with her, and we’d had a rush of very complex patients with multiple diagnoses and co-morbidities.
One of my co-workers described this lady as being ‘so vanilla’. I lost it.
Today in a meeting we were talking about various routes of administration for drugs. One of our colleagues on the phone must have been awfully perplexed by an omission. All of a sudden, we hear this extremely loud voice shouting, “what about the rectal route of administration?” I pretty much lost it when it happened.
I was in a deposition once with a bunch of lawyers. The plaintiff had been injured in a construction site accident when a steel column he was working on fell over. The lawyer questioning him was an uptight lady in her 50s and she was taking him through the sequence of events leading up to the accident, so she was talking about how he had been erecting columns that morning, etc. etc. Then she started using the word “member” instead of “column”. “How many members had you erected that morning?” “Have you erected members before?” “Was anyone else erecting members?” The tension in the room kept building and I could barely keep from bursting out laughing. Finally, another lawyer cracked some kind of joke that relieved the tension for everyone except the questioner–she had no idea why everyone was laughing.
Wait, I’m confused. Are you talking about taking up more space with web pages, or moving office furniture into a new rented physical space? There are several business models that might apply, depending.
My recommendation is the one I like to call “fist fucking.”
Are you asking the sexual meaning or why she was innocuously described as “vanilla”? Sexually, “vanilla” means you’re into nothing considered odd, if it’s the latter, I’m with you.
I’m not getting the amusement factor either. Vanilla just means straightforward and simple, whether in a sexual or non-sexual way. There’s not really a double entendre to be had, unless I’m missing something else.
Geez. That’s mighty professional of all of them. :eek: It certainly would have tested my mettle.
