Friday, September 06, 2002

Five irritating "verbal ticks" of my work colleagues:

"If you know what I mean" - No, please explain to me.
"What it is is" - What is it?
"To be honest/To tell you the truth" - You mean you usually lie to me?
"Basically what it is basically is [blah]. So, basically [blah]." - Stick to basics.
"It's all gone pear shaped" - Would that be Conference or Bartlett?

I blame Thatcher.

:: Posted by pete @ 07:17