... but I have decided to make my collection of Absurd Locutions public property again, even the ones where I get cranky.

Remember, even if you're feeling totally down on yourself, at least you didn't write any of these horrible phrases, sentences, or even whole paragraphs.

LinkedIn kindly keeps on sending me less and less appropriate job postings. This one caught my eye because the company in question, Digitas, has as their logo the silhouette of an actual unicorn, complete with sweeping, sexy pony-tail and surrounded by stars.

And it's a unicorn, all right. A unicorn of Spectacularly Bad Prose:

"Digitas is a highly- ( Read more... )

Today's entry is brought to you by a combination of this incredibly scary time we're living in and Autocorrect. Because I'm pretty sure this headline in a local political newsletter was an Autocorrect artifact:

Bill Protects Free Conception in MA.

What the bill (now passed) guarantees is free contraception. And I'm also fairly sure the writer of ( Read more... )

I was at a small festivity this evening, and a lady said that the latest business buzzword, describing the goal of an MBA education, is to produce "T-shaped people ( Read more... )

The problem with AutoCorrect, as we all know, is that if there are two possible word choices, it will provide the wrong one. Spelled correctly, but wrong. Here are two for your personal delectation:

The totally amazing Andrew Rilstone, in his latest review of very early issues of Spiderman, noted that one looks in vein for something-or-other. ( Read more... )

I do an opinion poll thing that pays me in points, which I convert to hotel points for travelling purposes ( Read more... )

There's a local email newsletter called MASSterList, which collects and comments upon political stories in the local press, the latest scuttlebutt from Beacon Hill (home of the Massachusetts State House, which is funny because Massachusetts is not a state ( Read more... )

The Wonder Family made a trip to Ohio this summer, to meet up with WoW's family, especially Oji Wonder and his crew. In transit, the Wonder Offspring had occasion to browse through Delta's Sky magazine. This may have been from an article, ad, or (shudder) infomercial; perhaps the writer thought that either the business brains who fly Delta wouldn't ( Read more... )

I don't have opportunity to run across these often, but when I do ( Read more... )

This is a fragment from a website from a company that claims to be the place "Where Sales And Marketing Meet."

"Sales Enablement is an Evolving FunctionToday, it is not uncommon for sales enablement to work with the field sales and marketing force to assemble, synthesize, deliver and measure elements. This shift has created a new challenge: ( Read more... )