And the winner is...Steve McClaren!

One of my all-time favorites was published by Sony a few years back. What they meant was they were cutting 500 jobs worldwide. The way it came out was

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Serendipitous side story found on above linked page:That's one possible solution!

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Trump says it best. "You're fired."

"We are in the process of evaluating the current rectocranial inversion status among mid-senior-level obfuscatory personnel with respect to optimal right-sizing of the organizational structure in the face of incremental challenges resulting from globalization requiring creative reintegration of product streams and eventual ajudication of residual ephemera."

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Translation: "I know I'm keeping my job, suckers."

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Not sure if you play any of SOE's games, Mike, but you nailed the history of Star Wars Galaxies solid.

No, me and my wife have worked for several large corporations over time, and some of what I wrote was just channeled from the real thing. I'm sure there are plenty of corpspeak dictionaries out there to help translate. Along the lines of

challenge = opportunity = problem

right-sizing = adjusting to scale = layoff

reevaluation = two out of three?

creative reintegration = layoff

... and so on.

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Cotroversial Knowledge = Too crazy for any other part of the book store.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

I'm sorry, but Steve McClaren's quote just does not stand up to the might and majesty of George W. Bush's "Childrens is learning."

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I think President Bush was cheated on yet another prize.
Them darn Europeans.....

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Or, properly, "Seldom is the question asked, 'Is our children learning?'"

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

More accurate, yes, but there's nothing proper about it.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

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I are Learnding.

Even more properly, "Seldom is the question asked, 'Is...are children learning?'"

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With the ambiguity of accent. I've heard the quote under discussion and am not sure if the word was 'are' or 'our'.

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Give the man a break will ya! You try saying
"are our" quickly in various southern accents.

McClaren might get one KO, but Bush wins on sheer volume. He might even surpass the all-time grand champion, Dan Quayle.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Personally, I would have liked it if Michael Behe had won it for his testomony in the Dover ID trial

"Under my definition, scientific theory is a proposed explanation which points to physical data and logical inferences.”- Michael Behe's definition of "Scientific Theory" which he conceeded included astrology

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so basically, this is yet again where the pres is getting slammed for being a Texan?

He says more than enough nonsense that poking fun at his accent is kinda childish.

This one is!

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song