Please do the needful

[Mich the Tester]

I can sympathise, worked with a bunch of ex-accidenture types, dear god

indeed

Go on; be a Tiger!

High performance; delivered!

[Zippy]

WWS.

Am working alongside a bunch of PWC tossers at the moment. All I hear all day are gardening analogies, such as: 'let's grab this thing by the roots'

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Perhaps you could make some new ones up to confuse him (bet he wouldn't admit he had no idea what you were talking about)?
e.g.
'We need to rotivate our allotment'

[Mich the Tester]

Perhaps you could make some new ones up to confuse him (bet he wouldn't admit he had no idea what you were talking about)?
e.g.
'We need to rotivate our allotment'

Great idea! Let's dip a slice in the fondue and see if it holds cheese!

[CheeseSlice]

Has anyone ever found anything that isn't on Wiki?

Here's another one

The legacy of the East India Company and its practices still prevails in official correspondence in India. Official letters include phrases such as "please do the needful" and "you will be intimated shortly", which are directly lifted from East India Company correspondence from the seventeenth century.

So basically it was our fault they started talking like this

[TimberWolf]

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.

[doodab]

Perhaps you could make some new ones up to confuse him (bet he wouldn't admit he had no idea what you were talking about)?
e.g.
'We need to rotivate our allotment'

Perhaps you should deadhead the pansies and head off to the pub to water the cabbage patch.

Just don't tell him you mow the lawn in neat stripes or he might flower early.

[TimberWolf]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the neatly trimmed bush.

[doodab]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the neatly trimmed bush.

Topiary?

Yeah, I ran over them with the lawn mower.

[Mich the Tester]

Regular injections of fertiliser do wonders for a neatly trimmed bush.

[MaryPoppins]

Regular injections of fertiliser do wonders for a neatly trimmed bush.

I fear we've digressed somewhat here.