Slog - Comments on Politicians, Spokespersons, Consultants, Everybody http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev 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.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:34:00 -0800 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:09:33 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by dna "at the end of the day" is one of those corporate-speak phrases that bugs the hell out of me at work.

]]> dna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c639942 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c639942 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:51:06 -0800 Comment by em 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.

]]> em http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c639947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c639947 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:54:14 -0800 Comment by Violet_DaGrinder Oh gawd, I've been trying to break myself of that one.

]]> Violet_DaGrinder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640004 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:32:27 -0800 Comment by Andrew I think what is worse are politicians using sports analogies all the time. That needs to be banded.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640052 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:01:36 -0800 Comment by Daisy 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.

]]> Daisy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640057 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:04:46 -0800 Comment by Patrick McGrath "Pocketbook" too. In real life, who says that something is good for their pocketbook?

]]> Patrick McGrath http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640071 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640071 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:16:12 -0800 Comment by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS lenny bruce.

]]> SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640128 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640128 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:54:25 -0800 Comment by ew
My peeve? Describing any problem from a minor issue to a fiasco as a "perfect storm". Damn that movie to Hell!

]]> ew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640142 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640142 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:06:01 -0800 Comment by dna em @2 - hA! let's document our learnings.

]]> dna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640521 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c640521 News Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:58:23 -0800 Comment by mpls "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.

]]> mpls http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c642245 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c642245 News Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:50:43 -0800 Comment by R., J. Death, also, to: "bottom line," "quite frankly," "no problem."

]]> R., J. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c642383 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c642383 News Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:21:59 -0800 Comment by R., J. Death, also, to: "bottom line," "quite frankly," "no problem."

]]> R., J. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c642384 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/politicians_spokespersons_consultants_ev#c642384 News Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:23:22 -0800 Comment by ParisSexHiltonS Hello guys!!!
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