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Monday, February 19, 2007

Politicians, Spokespersons, Consultants, Everybody

posted by on February 19 at 13:34 PM

Ban this phrase from your vocabulary:

“At the end of the day.”

In the past year, this phrase has become every politician’s favorite verbal puncuation mark.

It just makes you all sound like fake Raymond Chandler characters. Stop it.

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"at the end of the day" is one of those corporate-speak phrases that bugs the hell out of me at work.

Posted by dna | February 19, 2007 1:51 PM
2

EOB (or the moderately better spelled-out version, "End of Business") is pretty annoying too. But maybe we should take this conversation offline and focus on the key takeaways here.

Posted by em | February 19, 2007 1:54 PM
3

Oh gawd, I've been trying to break myself of that one.

Posted by Violet_DaGrinder | February 19, 2007 2:32 PM
4

I think what is worse are politicians using sports analogies all the time. That needs to be banded.

Posted by Andrew | February 19, 2007 3:01 PM
5

Oh, lord I thought ours was the only office that did the horrible online offline thing.

See also: I'd like to download with you about yesterday's meeting.

Posted by Daisy | February 19, 2007 3:04 PM
6

"Pocketbook" too. In real life, who says that something is good for their pocketbook?

Posted by Patrick McGrath | February 19, 2007 3:16 PM
7

lenny bruce.

Posted by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS | February 19, 2007 3:54 PM
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My peeve? Describing any problem from a minor issue to a fiasco as a "perfect storm". Damn that movie to Hell!

Posted by ew | February 19, 2007 4:06 PM
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em @2 - hA! let's document our learnings.

Posted by dna | February 19, 2007 6:58 PM
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"Make no mistake".

Meaning - pay particular attention to what I'm about to say. Usually followed by some banal conventional wisdom b.s.

This phrase must be banned from the political lexicon.

Posted by mpls | February 20, 2007 9:50 AM
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Death, also, to: "bottom line," "quite frankly," "no problem."

Posted by R., J. | February 20, 2007 11:21 AM
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Death, also, to: "bottom line," "quite frankly," "no problem."

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