Really OT [thelist] OT (verbage)
Ben Henick
persist1_pdx at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 13 21:12:31 CDT 2000
> > and today's winner:
> >"to craft verbiage." As in TO WRITE, for the love of GOD.
> My fave: "Let's russian doll this text". I *think* it meant
> to reduce it in size, but can't be sure.
Ouch. Someone must've had a real attack of creativity that day.
FWIW that's called a 'matryoshka' literally: 'mothers in a small
package' (which is about as close as I can describe it without TOTALLY
mangling the hell out of it).
Thing is, you'd think that someone so happy about two-dollar metaphors
would know what the damned thing was actually called, no?
Yeah, right. Gotta love those clever-to-the-point-of-vomiting folks.
Hope I haven't automatically put myself in with them (since, after all,
this post is straight out of "Jeopardy").
<chuckle> Are lives are so full of people who exist, it seems, merely
to entertain the rest of us. Especially when we show up at the
workplace.
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