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(5,294 posts)lastlib
(28,277 posts)In the 21st century, you've got to thnk outside the TESSERACT!

(Good luck with that.........)
True Dough
(26,674 posts)anyone who mutters "thinking outside the box" clearly is not "thinking outside the box," just relying on a cliche.
biophile
(1,424 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,466 posts)Buttoneer
(978 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(1,022 posts)kerouac2
(1,495 posts)It is what it is...
It's such a white flag of surrender thing to say.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,704 posts)happybird
(5,393 posts)It's not always a negative saying.
lastlib
(28,277 posts)FFS, tell us WHAT it is!
chowmama
(1,096 posts)This is the corporate version of 'thoughts and prayers'. I'd rather have time to do my job and the pay for it.)
A runner-up is 'going forward'. It's 'from now on', dammit!
Corporate-speak, blechhh!
lastlib
(28,277 posts)What happens after midnight??
"Half-mast" for a flag flown on land.
Ships have masts. On land, it's "Half-STAFF".
Starting any sentence with "Hopefully". That is an atrocity.
Marie Marie
(11,314 posts)so condescending.
True Dough
(26,674 posts)to getting one's knickers in a knot?
Marie Marie
(11,314 posts)spooky3
(38,634 posts)MIButterfly
(2,696 posts)I've even heard Democrats use that expression. Once and for all, It's the DEMOCRATIC party!!!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,193 posts)FadedMullet
(926 posts)synni
(778 posts)Intractable
(2,105 posts)Does that one count?
LogDog75
(1,301 posts)When I hear this I think "If you had already earned my trust then you wouldn't have to ask me to "trust you." This is the point my internal warning system starts raising red flags. Or, as the robot in the TV series Lost in Space would say: "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"
rampartd
(4,633 posts)"you can take him at his word?"
i would never take witkoff "at his word"
another one, from an x=boss "you just don't get it"
10 Turtle Day
(1,226 posts)Usually said after some atrocity like a mass shooting. This is EXACTLY who we are. Maybe not us as individuals, but as a society the U.S. can be very sick.
Buttoneer
(978 posts)Fla Dem
(27,633 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,333 posts)GusBob
(8,249 posts)Sorry to all
"FAFO"
and that "leopards eating face" one
Both way over used and just not clever anymore
Skittles
(171,717 posts)they are still VERY relevant
GusBob
(8,249 posts)If something is overused it loses its relevancy
and to see it 2-3 times in threads makes it overused
and actually one reads it here everyday, and posted with any discussion along with it, which in my opinion is just lazy
Blues Heron
(8,838 posts)Blues Heron
(8,838 posts)And also Salty
DBoon
(24,988 posts)WmChris
(741 posts)Now here's something entirely different.
displacedvermoter
(4,503 posts)talking about "Going to war" with teammates. I recall the late Todd Christensen -- one of my favorite all time sportscasters -- going off one time about NFL players using this phrase!
NEOH
(319 posts)Something the corporate media peeps always say. Is it a Civil Engineering course or what??
displacedvermoter
(4,503 posts)"Calling balls and strikes"
Liars.....
PittBlue
(4,795 posts)I hate that phrase.
Zorro
(18,693 posts)Skittles
(171,717 posts)it's just...........gross