Twenty reasons why English is hard some times...
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2007 EMBA vocabulary.
TESTICULATING
>> > > Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.
BLAMESTORMING.
>> > > Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed
>> > > or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER.
>> > > A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
>> > > everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS.
>> > > The process by which people seem to absorb success and
>> > > advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY.
>> > > The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only
>> > > to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM.
>> > > An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING.
>> > > When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and
>> > >people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This
>> > >also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be
>> > >cake.)
MOUSE POTATO.
>> > > The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
SITCOMs.
>> > > Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies
>> > >turn into when they have children and one of them stops working
>> > >to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY.
>> > > A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
XEROX SUBSIDY.
>> > > Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. (JUST FOR STEVE..)
>> > > The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to
>> > >get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE.
>> > > The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank
>> > >and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often
>> > >profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were
>> > >designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded
>> > >"administrivia" needless paperwork and processes.
404.
>> > > Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
>> > > "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be
>> > > located.
OHNOSECOND
>> > > That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've
>> > > just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')
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