Culture Vulture

[Lynne Murphy]

Elizabeth Gibbens said:
>        A friend of mine is starting a group he calls
> the "culture vultures." The purpose of the group is to
> unify a corporate culture that is diverse, because the
> company has emerged from an amalgamation of different
> Internet companies.
>
>        He is curious about the origin of the term and
> about its exact meaning. Judging from the word
> "vulture," I'd guess that a culture vulture is a
> person who scavenges the best ideas he can find from
> different places and uses them to establish a
> professional community.


I've only heard 'culture vulture' used for people who do things like go
to operas.  I've never heard it in any corporate sense.

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK