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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Sheer
Why, on traffic reports, is congestion always due to the SHEER weight of traffic? Why is it sheer? Why not just because there's a lot of traffic, or a large number of cars? Now I've told you that it'll drive you as mad as it does me - although not as mad as I get when I see TV reporters gesticulating wildly for no apparent reason... honestly I reckon a TV reporter's job description these days reads " Must have ridiculous accent or speech impediment and must have absolutely no control of hands - wild spasms an advantage".
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 14:20, 2 replies)
There's a correspondant on the BBC
who looks like a cross between Sloth from Goonies and Dr Van Helsing from Cannonball Run.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 14:36, closed)
It's because motor vehicles in large groups become slightly transparent.

(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 22:48, closed)

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