I obviously need dumber friends....
I had to Google "obfuscate" there Mr. Fancy Pants smart guy.
Morning all
No more big words please at least until after my
Sorry, I couldn't help myself...
One day, years ago we were in a meeting and I used the word nebulous. My friend told me I was making the word up and took great pleasure in giving me crap about it. I went to dictionary.com after the meeting, printed out the definition page and taped it to his monitor. He was more than a little embarrassed, since he'd said that in front of IT and HR management.
Morning!
For those that are like me and don’t care, the Golden Globes were last night. After seeing several articles mentioning Ricky Gervais’ monologue, I went and listened to it. It’s a very enjoyable 8 minutes and ends with a message they needed to hear from one of their own. It worth the listen this morning, made me smile.
Morning!
For those that are like me and don’t care, the Golden Globes were last night. After seeing several articles mentioning Ricky Gervais’ monologue, I went and listened to it. It’s a very enjoyable 8 minutes and ends with a message they needed to hear from one of their own. It worth the listen this morning, made me smile.
Amazing when people do that. I don't gauge folks by vocabulary (there are plenty of things I know little or nothing about, and there are plenty of folks with small vocabularies that we should really listen to more), but when someone volunteers loudly to display their stupidity (and in the case you mentioned it would have been ignorance had he done it differently, but he turned it into stupidity by the way he displayed it), it gets difficult not to.
I have no issue asking questions to learn, but it always amazes me when folks want to throw down on something they admittedly know nothing about.
Like the quote attributed to Mark Twain: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Amazing when people do that. I don't gauge folks by vocabulary (there are plenty of things I know little or nothing about, and there are plenty of folks with small vocabularies that we should really listen to more), but when someone volunteers loudly to display their stupidity (and in the case you mentioned it would have been ignorance had he done it differently, but he turned it into stupidity by the way he displayed it), it gets difficult not to.
I have no issue asking questions to learn, but it always amazes me when folks want to throw down on something they admittedly know nothing about.
Like the quote attributed to Mark Twain: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Morning!
For those that are like me and don’t care, the Golden Globes were last night. After seeing several articles mentioning Ricky Gervais’ monologue, I went and listened to it. It’s a very enjoyable 8 minutes and ends with a message they needed to hear from one of their own. It worth the listen this morning, made me smile.
I watched his intro.
Looks like I'll be speaking less. At least I can still impress people with my trigger finger.This sits near my office chair.
Once there was a time when I was part gangster , and part cowboy. I wore that leather 10-gallon until it eventually fell apart .... notice the admiring gaze from the girl on the right.
Courtesy; the MM photo archive --- gangster / cowboy chapter
It’s the only part I care to watch. The rest is mind numbing, but it was a good intro. And faces of people in the crowd are priceless.
captive audience
You did well sir.
I on the other hand went back to being the full on mouse of old. I had to delete and edit a few posts in the Holcomb thread. Refugees my ass.
Looks like I'll be speaking less. At least I can still impress people with my trigger finger.
I enjoyed that.Morning!
For those that are like me and don’t care, the Golden Globes were last night. After seeing several articles mentioning Ricky Gervais’ monologue, I went and listened to it. It’s a very enjoyable 8 minutes and ends with a message they needed to hear from one of their own. It worth the listen this morning, made me smile.