Uncommon Language

Mr. Matson

Best I have is Acronyms---I've sat in meetings with people trying to impress and they talk in lettered short form----Internet jargon leads this way as well....LOL

One meeting in a large group---an intelligent member asked the speaker who spoke to death in catchy little program short forms-----What the hell are talking about?-----funny many wanted to ask the same question but were happy to nod their heads in agreement.

Good example Mo...thx...

How many marathon long meetings end with the conclusion that the best way to increase productivity is more doing and less talking about it? Let's discuss this further next week, same time......oh brother

There are many times that one must stop planning and start doing

When I married back in the 60's, I married a lovely young lady, who couldn't speak a word of English.

It was WONDERFUL, for we had a common non-verbalized "understanding".....Well, that's what I thought.

Along with speaking Polish, German, Russian, French and Italian, she quickly learned to speak fluent English.

And that's when the troubles began..........For she began to actually understand me.

She is now a professor of Architecture and I stick crab claws into mussel shells.

So it goes

I have seen this written to be "politically incorrect" - you'll have to figure out that it's talking about congress.

Yes Roger, some times it is best that we just smile and let the other party decide what it means LOL.

I was high up in the Himalayas and light was fading....

while heading for Annapurna base camp in 1984. As luck would have it I found a cave with three local hunters inside around a raging fire with meat frying in a wok spiced with herbs. Two of them were relentlessly taking the mickey out of the third without letup, to my utter amusement.They had shot a mountain ram (upward curved horns) after following it for a week, the result of a missed shot. I took the single shot Lee Enfield rifle lying on the floor and showed them via raw Aussie theatricals what the story was. They usually hunt in three's. In front, the spotter who gestures with hand signals to the shooter in the middle. The man behind is the baggage carrier...who have been relegated to this position after a missed shot - that can send a startled ram into a frantic run requiring this rearrangement of talent. The successful shooter and spotter were making fun out of a carrier that had just lugged a considerable weight through the snow capped mountains of Nepal.....My audience was dumbfounded that I could figure all this out with speaking a single word in Nepalese....We tucked in and I suffered severely the next morning after not seeing meat for months....

A lesson to us all....