Let's complicate it 2

[CRilliterate]

I have heard some stand up talking about how minorities changing the way they wanted to be named and he went onto homeless and said if we have to start calling them 'hygiene impaired squeegee technician' but if it is too much we can offer to shorten it to 'outdorsemen'...

I know it is wrong but why did I laught so hard? I know there are masters of complications, anyone?

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[Turkbear]

Hi,
As would I, if I could find anyplace in the City for
< $500,000 or so..( if I want more than 1200 Sq Feet)





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[CosmoKramer]

This has got to be one of my favorite euphemisms of all time:

The PC term for failure? ‘Deferred success’

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes

 

[CRilliterate]

Thanks, CK! Back to subject, which is very fun onE!

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[SamBones]

This is my favorite PC euphemism for handicapped people...

The conveniently parked

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,( back on topic, sorry for the digression)

For Sen. John Kerry ( sadly) one could say:

charismatically challenged

For some politicians
( I refuse to believe it applies to all):

ethically challenged





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You know that technical line is my signature that I can not remove for this forum only.

Take a look at the bottom RH corner of where you type a post.
A signature can be "switched" on or off there.

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/5671/signature8ah.png

[Cheers]

 

[SilentAiche]

Sometimes a signature can generate the same ambiguity you perhaps felt about that joke of the stand up comedian.

[blue] I am using Windows XP, Crystal Reports 9.0 with SQL Server[/blue]

I can't believe I never saw this before: If "Reports" is a [red]verb[/red] and "[red]SQL Server[/red]" is a person, the sig takes on a very funny and very unintended meaning (my favorite kind).

Perhaps even funnier, according to the following quote what I found so funny was not Olaf's intention. Now there's a complication, of the minor sort.

CRilliterate, it was just a bit funny to read about someone feeling for homeless and directly afterwards telling about some specification of OS and used applications, which is perhaps rather useful in other technology related forums and threads, but not here. I bet even the XP home edition wouldn't help homeless very much, would it?

Tim

(P.S.: My only experience with "Squeegee Technicians" was at an Atlanta Falcons game some years ago. Naturally, he washed our Windows.




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I love logging onto Tek-Tips. It's always so exciting to see what the hell I
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[stubnski]

I was once had a job with the title "Landscape Architect" at the age of 12... I mowed lawns and weeded flower beds. I did a lot for the landscape, but nothing for the Architect


Stubnski

 

[PScottC]

There appears to be some need these days for excessive wordiness, especially in written form. The thing that I find odd though is that vocabulary seems to be shrinking.

Try working the following words into your next email and see if you get requests for definitions:

aberrant
euphemism (thank you Rambler)
vernacular
obfuscated

Enough on that front... How about the subject at hand...
hobo/bum/transient = homeless person?
prostitute = streetwalker?
prostitute = escort??
auto mechanic = engine technician?
nuclear = nucular???? (Aaahhggg!! make it stop!)


PSC

Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are samurai. The keyboard cowboys. And all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle. Mooo! --Mr. The Plague, from the movie "Hackers

 

[CRilliterate]

Just for fun:
One day my

housework-challenged (on topic)

husband decided to wash his
Sweatshirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to
me, "What setting do I use on the washing machine?"
"It depends," I replied. "What does it say on your shirt?"


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[Stella740pl]

Is it something from "Reader's Digest"?

You think this was over-complication?
Can you think of a simpler, shorter way to describe that man?

 

[CRilliterate]

Simply Lazy as housework-challenged...don't tell me you didn't see it

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[CRilliterate]

And NO it is not from Reader's Digest, it is from Barbara...

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[Stella740pl]

Lazy? Not necessarily.

He may be a very hard worker elsewhere.
And even where housework concerned, this particular guy seems not lazy, just incompetent from the lack of relevant experience.

I've seen different cases:

* knows how to do everything, but won't under most circumstances (I wouldn't call this case "housework-challenged") - so what, he does some other chores;

* doesn't know how to do housework and doesn't want to know;

* doesn't know how to housework, but is trying when necessary.

The last two I might call housework-challenged. They can be lazy or not - it doesn't make a difference in this case.

 

[CRilliterate]

Sometimes you just have to let go...lol

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[Stella740pl]

Ha?
I didn't get what was that about.

And I like the term "housework-challenged". It is so descriptive, and not complicated at all.

 

[Grenage]

Aye, some of us are great at maintaining our workplace but terrible at maintaining our home


Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[CRilliterate]

I have one of those at home, Grenade. lol

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[tsdragon]

Here are some interesting euphemisms:

Domestic Engineer: houswife

Domestically Challenged: sloppy housekeeper

Chronologically Challenged: old

POSSLQ (Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters): unmarried couple living together (actually used by the US Census Bureau)

Significant Other: boyfriend/girlfriend

Security Update: major bug fix



Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

For some the term challenged seems to be a bit optimistic. How about swamped or overextended?

That would make a short person vertically overextended, which sounds long or big, if not even great, don't you think?

Bye, Olaf.