Monday, September 18, 2006

Utter Drivel




PoF's upgraded model now offers remote monitored concepts.


The Gobbledygook* Generator: it slices, it dices, and if you act now, free waffles...

Have you ever wanted to become a stereotypical consultant? Do you find yourself lost for meaningless, empty phrases that make you look 'in the know'?

Simply click on the button below this paragraph and a random piece of business jargon will appear in the box below. If you need more than one buzzphrase, just click the button again and again. This generator can create around 40,000 different pieces of utter waffle!

Also of note on the Plain English site are Some (Quite) Interesting Facts About Long Sentences. Now if only the Brits could learn how to spell efficiently too.

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*The term "gobbledygook" is not meant to otherize turkeys of Asian descent. (ah PC, an even greater threat to clarity.)

p.p.s. The comic strip is completely bizarre, but was the best thing that came up when I googled** for "drivel".

**Not "Googled" (capital 'g') as I technically prefer to Yahoo!ey^1 for stuff.

1. "Hooey" while a great olde tyme word in English, is actually an incredibly offensive word in certain Slav tongues (sort of like a male c-word, I think).

BTW, the greatest footnote ever in the history of the English language must be the one produced by Todd Seavey which is a summation of the entire X-Files series which lives on as a full-blown sidebar now.