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Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / February 2008Bullshit bingo moment today.
How the f.ck can someone include the phrase "going forward, retrospectively" into a sentence? I nearly choked on my coffee. > How the f.ck can someone include the phrase "going forward, > retrospectively" into a sentence? "Going forward, retrospectively, was a grand idea"? 's OK innit?  SignatureAlex BMW R1150GS DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8 Windy's "little soldier" > How the f.ck can someone include the phrase "going forward, > retrospectively" into a sentence? > > I nearly choked on my coffee. The future, in the past, was not what it would have been, had it been what it was when it was different from what it had previously been, and it can be expected that what will be the past when what is now the future becomes what we consider to be the present, will be different from what we believed the future would be when the present was the future and the past was the present. Or not. We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus" <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: >The future, in the past, was not what it would have been, had it been what >it was when it was different from what it had previously been, and it can be >expected that what will be the past when what is now the future becomes what >we consider to be the present, will be different from what we believed the >future would be when the present was the future and the past was the >present. Or not. Yes, Sir Humphrey. SignatureDave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a "A scone and tea at half past three Makes the day a little brighter Keep your cakes and fancy tarts And stick them up your shiter." > How the f.ck can someone include the phrase "going forward, > retrospectively" into a sentence? > > I nearly choked on my coffee. Reminds me of an old boss who could only visualise the future as an extensioon of his own past. Bullshit bingo was always the order of the day in his interminable meetings. The 2 buzzwords were "executive" and "confidential". His vocabularly was limited to spouting soundbites where these 2 words would almost certainly feature, either jointly or severally. SignatureDan L Too much time to think, too little to do. dan.yodanet@gmail.com http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/ 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7) X-FOT#000 DIAABTCOD #26 BOMB#18 (slow) OMF#11 Dan L <dan.yodanet@gmail.com> wrote; >Reminds me of an old boss who could only visualise the future as an >extensioon of his own past. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >vocabularly was limited to spouting soundbites where these 2 words >would almost certainly feature, either jointly or severally. heh, reminds me of a boss who's response to any 'idea' was "Is it safe?". This would be repeated several times with varying intonations, and was occasionally accompanied by the word "future-wise". He even looked a bit like Olivier, but denied owning dental equipment. SignatureDenis SprintST1050 Tiger750TR7RV |
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