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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I realize a lot of people are into buzz words that are current and it doesn't matter to most, nor do they seem to know, if the definition is completely out of whack. Bomb and sick now mean something good, 'stupid' means it is positive I think, who knows, I don't hang out in a bad hip hop bar. The two terms that are driving me nuts right now are 'pop' and 'out of the box'.
Let us discuss the long abused 'out of the box' which initially means something that does not require additional assembly after purchase. Few use it for that they use it based on a management idea that came from a lecture where a design that basically was a square with an x in it was capped with a triangle making a simple house. The idea was to draw over each line and reproduce the shapes w/out going over (crossing okay) or retracing a line. This is impossible to do because people would try to do the drawing as it appeared. The secret as told by the lecturer was you had to 'think outside of the box' and your continious line, I forget to mention that, has to leave the design and then re-enter at another point thus making the final line. The entire idea is not to be held down to procedure or 'how you usually' complete a function sometimes you need a workaround. Based on the image there is only one aspect that needs to be outside of the box it doesn't mean that every wild idea which has no anchoring method is 'thinking outside of the box', those are what we call 'wild arse ideas'. Stop thinking a nutty idea is 'thinking outside of the box', it isn't. Now for 'pop'. Picture a black and white photo and in it is a red scarf, the scarf 'pops' because it stands out in the image. Now it seems everything pops, not everything pops, an idea doesn't pop, a single color doesn't pop, a magic trick doesn't pop, one aspect pops. I have heard people say "oh, this food item pops!", no it doesn't, if the entire thing is flavored well together nothing in it pops, if there is a hot pepper in it that suddenly hits you, that could be said to pop. There we have it, stupid is not outside the box thinking and not everything pops. Go and sin no more. |
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Ignorant usage is both pathetic and laughable. Here's my favorite recent idiot sighting:
I was walking into a store on a very hot day, at the same time two women (thirty-ish) were walking out. When they felt the blast of hot air, one of them exclaimed in very pronounced syllables, as if if was spewing from the mouth of a 13 year old girl... "O-M-G!!" Now, I can buy into the logic of why such acronyms are useful when one is texting or typing. It is faster. But, here are three ONE-SYLLABLE letters that stand for three ONE-SYLLABLE words. It takes no more time to say the words than it does to pronounce the letters. Another lemming for the pile at the bottom of the cliff?? WTF?? (Ok, I know that the previous three-letter acronym also stands for three one-syllable words, but the reason for use should be obvious.)
~michael baker
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
You mention those initials. I'm trying to get temp work at Amazon.com and they have a chat set up. I asked if it was a real person and the chat said it was a guy named Ethan but the response was "Yes I'm a person lols". I don't have my reading glasses and I thought he put lois so I called him Lois through the entire chat.
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Santa,
"Out of the Box" is a expression that's been around a long long time. Working in advertising I've heard an used this many times. And the idea of it makes perfect sense to me. Try it some time !
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
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Mephisticator New user Canada 61 Posts |
The thing that drives me crazy is the incessant use of the word "like" throughout young people's (and some older people's) conversations these days: "Like, I didn't even see him coming...and then I was, like, all freaked out". How did that happen? Even worse: "Like, OMG!"
I fully agree that every wild idea is not "outside the box". First, you need to identify the box. Then understand why an idea is "outside" it. |
mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
"Like", as you've described isn't really generational. It goes at least as far back as the beatnik era.
Like, gimme some skin big daddy. (50's equivalent of "Gimme five!") |
Dr. Van Van Mojo Special user 570 Posts |
On the subject of OMG, WTF, LOL, etc. How many people that type LOL on the internet are actually "LOLing"? Yeah, maybe once in a great while it actually happens, but come on. There's someone that posts on the Café that sticks an lol in almost every post he makes here even when it doesn't make sense. That's almost enough to make me lol.
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Bill Hilly Elite user 449 Posts |
Not to mention the people who laugh while rolling around their floors without their bums.
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Bill Hilly Elite user 449 Posts |
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On 2011-11-12 16:59, MagicSanta wrote: Maybe he was calling YOU Lois. QSTMS (Quietly snickering to myself) |
Bill Hilly Elite user 449 Posts |
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On 2011-11-12 16:56, Michael Baker wrote: A four-year-old asked me if I knew what that meant. During my hesitation he told me, "One, Two, Free." |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
I was about done with faddish language when I almost discussed some computer items at a business meeting. It was 1989 and I had just gotten a handle on list based interfaces written in Clipper ( a dBase dialect ) and a client wanted some business applications to connect contracts to billing.
I prepared the outline and decided that telling them that: Productivity increases when staff view their work through windows Programs are more powerful when they are mouse driven The methods used in programming have evolved from spaghetti code to oops and the programming staff can now make their own building blocks and just give each other headers in a cooperative programming environment. ... simply did not make good sense to them or to business in general. Good thing the current fad of having ones valuable data and applications in the cloud was not around. But looking back it might have made a good few lines in a standup routine. Wait til you get a hang of the way Vicky Pollard speaks.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Siri, can I call you Sassy?
My name is Siri Siri, I need a date Looking up escort services * but it won't announce calls or activate when you say it's name... yet * are you Sirious yet?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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foolsnobody Special user Buffalo, NY 843 Posts |
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On 2011-11-12 19:14, Mephisticator wrote: That goes back to the beatnik era. "Like, far out man!" I think pot may have been involved. You know, "Mary Jane"? "Guage"? "Reefer"? I fondly remember Bob Denver screaming in a falsetto (as Maynard G. Krebs when someone offered him a chance to earn some money by doing some wo---"WORRRRRKKKKKKKKKK?!?!?!?!?!!??!" Just the idea freaked him out, man, cause he was *beat.* Dig it? |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I have no objections to using a word or expression just because I like the way it sounds. If other people still know what I'm talking about then who's it hurting? Never have understood why people get such a bug up their collective asses about little things like that.
I envy those who have no bigger problems in their lives than someone spelling "your" instead of "you're," or throwing out one too many "Buttlikes.*" *"But, like..." (The previous opinions apply only to casual conversation.)
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
Word, Critter!
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