triage

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 31 01:23:38 UTC 2013


 > Change, or just someone who has a poor vocabulary, but did watch reruns
of MASH?

Ultimately perhaps a distinction without a difference. Surely Ashley knows
words like "disaster" and "train wreck" and "financial flopperoo."

JL

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:18 PM, paul johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:

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> Change, or just someone who has a poor vocabulary, but did watch reruns
> of MASH?  I was listening when this was said, my feeling was triage was
> being used instead of losses / bleeding.
> On 1/30/2013 6:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > This might bea new meaning or just goofy application of the old one. (But
> > remember that change begins somewhere....)
> >
> > Ashley Banfield reports that BlackBerry shares have lost 76% of their
> value
> > in the past couple of years, "and that's what we call *triage*!"
> >
> > JL
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