[Ads-l] Corporate Jargon? Or lack of creativity? Or...

Thu Apr 9 03:14:28 UTC 2015

From the Kleiner-Perkins Twitter:

"@kpcb: . at Jormont1978 did a fireside today w/ @JeremyBloom11 on architecting world class management teams."

Has this monstrosity "architecting" been used before? I've never seen anything like it.

https://twitter.com/kpcb/status/586001621752160256

-Tim Jewell

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> On Apr 8, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>>> On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:27 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) =
>> <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
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>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
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>> Saratoga Spring NY _Daily Saratogan_ 22 Feb 1883
>> =20
>> "Beware, you base twelve-ounce-to-the-pound huckster, you gimlet-eyed
>> seller of dog-sausage, you sanded-sugar idiot, you small potato three =
> card
>> monte sleight of hand rotten egg fiend, you villain that sells smoked =
> sturgeon
>> and dogfish for smoked halibut. The avenger is on your track."
> 
> These all seem like vile acts indeed except for the =
> smoked-sturgeon-selling villain.  Could smoked halibut really have been =
> more highly valued than smoked sturgeon?  Today, smoked sturgeon is =
> available unsliced in 1.0-1.3 pound chunks at the moment for $32 at one =
> site, and at another (http://www.911caviar.com) at $25.50 for a 10-12 =
> ounce package.  Smoked halibut from Alaska seems is variably available =
> for online purchase in the neighborhood of $20-$25 a pound.  So maybe =
> today's villains would be selling smoked halibut for smoked sturgeon.  =
> (Of course it's all a matter of supply, demand, and custom--back in 1883 =
> fish-house workers were probably still rioting over being served oysters =
> and lobsters too often.)
> 
> LH
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>>> Subject: Hager-ma growley
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>>> Here's some colorful (and surely romanticized) Civil War grousing, =
> from
>>> "D. S. Forbes" [actually S. W. Lewis] *History of the Thirty-
>>> Days=3DE2=3D80=3D99 =3D Campaign of the Sixty-Eighth Regiment, New =
> York State
>>> National Guards* (Fredonia,
>>> N.Y.: pvtly ptd., 1863).
>>> =20
>>> P. 20:
>>> =20
>>> Gentlemen, by smut, hark, and I'll just naturally put a flea in your
>>> ears.
>>> Now, you see this is a grab game, and if we don't keep our eyes =
> peeled,
>>> we'll get euchered. These gol-blasted commissioned officers are going
>>> to be powerfully patriotic and great Union-loving sons of ------- =
> until
>>> the thing is all fastened and the knots all tied. When things look
>>> smutty and danger begins to look a little red in relation to our =
> bones
>>> and sinners, why they'll resign, and we poor, unlucky, cat-hauled
>>> devils may go to H =3DE2=3D80=3D =3D94l, for all of them; they'll =
> resign their
>>> commissions and are all sound on the goose.
>>> =20
>>> =20
>>> P.45:
>>> =20
>>> "I can just naturally look through this d----d clap-trap game, and I
>>> ain't going to stand it; now that's what's the matter with the mule.
>>> ...  Old Snipe, (Knipe,) the lop-eared, penurious, snake-eyed =
> Hager-ma
>>> growley, is going to slip us across the Potomac, and clear on down to
>>> where it is hotter than Balshazzar's furnace."
>>> =20
>>> P. 49:
>>> "The old whiskey-drinking pop-gun; he's gone home, the old =
> lily-livered
>>> cuss....  Knipe, the old, black,wall-eyed, crabbed, fiery-mouthed,
>>> flint-pated devil, will be here in about ten minutes, frothing and
>>> foaming because we ain't down there in the scorching Virginia =
> swamps."
>>> =20
>>> "By smut" and "smutty" may euphemize "shit" and "shitty," but the
>>> historical record makes that uncertain.  To "euchre" is to victimize =
> by
>>> trickery.  A "grab game" is a swindle, and "sound on the goose" =
> usually
>>> means "sound in one's political views."  Here it may simply mean =
> "safe
>>> and sound," but that is conjecture.
>>> =20
>>> "That's what's the matter with the mule" elaborates the19th C.
>>> catch-phrase, "That's what's the matter!"  It meant pretty much what =
> it
>>> means today, but seems to have been used frequently for its own sake =
> -
>>> possibly a quotation from somewhere?
>>> =20
>>> "Hager-ma growley" may be a one-off creation. The regiment was camped
>>> near Hagerstown, Md.
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>>> JL
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