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    #21
    Going forward
    +50 Xeno Geek Points
    Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
    As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

    Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

    CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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      #22
      'Crack on' I have done quite a bit of work with the military over the years and it seems to be the universal phrase for getting on with it, no matter where I go they all say it
      Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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        #23
        Originally posted by gingerjedi
        'Crack on' I have done quite a bit of work with the military over the years and it seems to be the universal phrase for getting on with it, no matter where I go they all say it
        One ex military person I knew always said 'let's rock and roll' instead of 'crack on.' I always liked that expression as it was fun and informal whilst he still meant business.

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          #24
          "crash out" as in Henman crashes out of yet another tournament....Newcastle crash out of another cup competition......

          Imagine Henman doing a hand brake turn on the Centre Court and smashing into the Umpire's Chair while taking out some twats from the front row with stupid hats and "Come on Tim" T shirts. Now that would be crashing out in style.

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            #25
            Upscale, Low hanging fruit and Channel.

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              #26
              http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/bbbingo.html?eBusiness

              sfw

              just buzzwords bingo been done before but go on fill yer boots with a vertical marketing proposition ideally placed for crossselling opportunites into a currently horizontal market which is ripe for customer aquisition, net market makers and incubate some best of breed wizzywig e-commerce solutions.

              In a nutshell

              probably?

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                #27
                footfall, upselling.

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                  #28
                  on one of my first contracts I had to work with a bunch of HR management consultants to help them merge a group of companies. In the first meeting I attended they started using all those kind of phrases "ducks in a row", "reading from the same page" etc., but I didn't know they were stock phrases.

                  I'd just finished an arts degree and I thought that they just had an easy, if prosaic, command of metaphor.

                  At one point they asked me to present a proposed workflow that I was half way through designing, and I said that they were 'trying to open the oven door before the cake had risen'. A couple of them smiled but the rest just nodded appreciatively and carried on.

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                    #29
                    Is everything "ship shape"?
                    Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults

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                      #30
                      "at the end of the day"

                      "Wait, I still function!"

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