Today I'm angry about.....

[thebish]

^ that's cos your angry thing was boring!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyway....
Been in a meeting, one that had the ominous agenda headline of Sustainability and Moving Into Profit in our Asian Markets and the Relevance in Relation to our Day to Day Business with Reference to the Database Group. There was a consultant present who I think usually makes his living confusing people at the LSE or somewhere similar – suffice it to say he had both a plum in his mouth and one up his arse (as my mother would say).
During the whole course of this particular meeting I didn’t make many notes. OK to be honest I made none that directly related to work, but I was quite busy writing throughout as I made a list of all the words and phrases that I needed to look up that had been uttered during the course of the meeting, mostly by said consultant.
Here for your gratification is the full list:

Grackle
Scleral ectasia
Sociolect
Noumenal
Compatibilism
Vaginated
Mercantilist
Gravid
Mustification
Prahar
Roadrailer modality
Trifecta
Pinnated
Waybeams
Panpuller
Nihilarian
Retroition
Testudinous
Semiotically
Opportunity cost
pnp junction
Fain
Alpha channel
Despalling
Stoneblowing
Axiology
Effulgent

Did anyone tackle this imposter ?

Sadly, no.

[thebish]

vag·i·nate (v j -n t, -n t ) also vag·i·nat·ed (-n t d). adj. 1. Forming or enclosed in a sheath. 2. Resembling a sheath.


how does that come up in relation to databases?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ that's cos your angry thing was boring!

Have I said I disappointed I am?

[bobo the clown]

The opportunity has probably gone then. Unless any senior was there and equally irritated.

[Bruce Rioja]

The Alpha Channel definitely shows Stoneblowing. It's on quite late though.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

vag·i·nate (v j -n t, -n t ) also vag·i·nat·ed (-n t d). adj. 1. Forming or enclosed in a sheath. 2. Resembling a sheath.


how does that come up in relation to databases?

I was so busy writing down the words i wasn't really listening to the whole sentences, but if I remember correctly at that point he was waffling on about a contract we have in Bangladesh and someone was on about cutting our lossses and utilising the people we have on our Indian contracts and Mr largewords said something about vaginating the two business areas...

[thebish]

vag·i·nate (v j -n t, -n t ) also vag·i·nat·ed (-n t d). adj. 1. Forming or enclosed in a sheath. 2. Resembling a sheath.


how does that come up in relation to databases?

I was so busy writing down the words i wasn't really listening to the whole sentences, but if I remember correctly at that pointed he was waffling on about a contract we have in Bangladesh and someone was on about cutting our lossses and utilising the people we have on our Indian contracts and Mr largewords said something about vaginating the two business areas...

making the two business areas resemble a sheath?? was it this guy:

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just asked somebody else who was there, who remembered his words as being: "Well it would be commercially advantageous to have the two areas vaginated..." And no neither of us knew what the feck he was going on about but we both remember inwardly giggling due to schoolboy style thoughts.

[Beefheart]

Opportunity Cost I know as a pretty standard economic term. The rest seem bizarre. Trifecta I've heard of but not sure what it means, 3 of something I guess.

[Hoboh]

vag·i·nate (v j -n t, -n t ) also vag·i·nat·ed (-n t d). adj. 1. Forming or enclosed in a sheath. 2. Resembling a sheath.


how does that come up in relation to databases?

You can get designer ones now I believe

[Montreal Wanderer]

Anyway....
Been in a meeting, one that had the ominous agenda headline of Sustainability and Moving Into Profit in our Asian Markets and the Relevance in Relation to our Day to Day Business with Reference to the Database Group. There was a consultant present who I think usually makes his living confusing people at the LSE or somewhere similar – suffice it to say he had both a plum in his mouth and one up his arse (as my mother would say).
During the whole course of this particular meeting I didn’t make many notes. OK to be honest I made none that directly related to work, but I was quite busy writing throughout as I made a list of all the words and phrases that I needed to look up that had been uttered during the course of the meeting, mostly by said consultant.
Here for your gratification is the full list:

Grackle
Scleral ectasia
Sociolect
Noumenal
Compatibilism
Vaginated
Mercantilist
Gravid
Mustification
Prahar
Roadrailer modality
Trifecta
Pinnated
Waybeams
Panpuller
Nihilarian
Retroition
Testudinous
Semiotically
Opportunity cost
pnp junction
Fain
Alpha channel
Despalling
Stoneblowing
Axiology
Effulgent

Did anyone tackle this imposter ?

I'm afraid it got lost and I see it for the first time. I think I know what some of the words mean (trifecta [a three race bet], Grackle [a common bird here]; vaginated [something that sheathes you like a vagina sheaths a ...never mind]; mercantilist [a fairly common term I would have thought - someone who practices mercantilism]; waybeams [railroad sleepers]; testudineous [my spelling - like a tortoise or Roman infantry formation against arrows]; semiotically [studying signs and symbols, rather than words]; opportunity cost [fairly common economic/business term]; fain [glad to do something - more often fain not = unwilling to do something]; and effulgent [shining brightly]. The rest I wouldn't care to hazard a guess.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Opportunity Cost I know as a pretty standard economic term. The rest seem bizarre. Trifecta I've heard of but not sure what it means, 3 of something I guess.

Opportunity cost was new to me I'm afraid. The Trifecta thing was in relation to a list of 'opportunities' we had and he said something like the winning trifecta would be... and then he listed three out of the however many.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

uh oh, part two calls ... we have a "washup" ffs
I shall sharpen my pencil.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Opportunity Cost I know as a pretty standard economic term. The rest seem bizarre. Trifecta I've heard of but not sure what it means, 3 of something I guess.

Opportunity cost was new to me I'm afraid. The Trifecta thing was in relation to a list of 'opportunities' we had and he said something like the winning trifecta would be... and then he listed three out of the however many.

It is from North American horse racing (maybe British ). Pick the winner of three races, compounding your bet - big money payoff if you win.

[Beefheart]

Opportunity Cost I know as a pretty standard economic term. The rest seem bizarre. Trifecta I've heard of but not sure what it means, 3 of something I guess.

Opportunity cost was new to me I'm afraid. The Trifecta thing was in relation to a list of 'opportunities' we had and he said something like the winning trifecta would be... and then he listed three out of the however many.

Opportunity cost is generally defined as 'the cost as the foregone alternative'. So if you have two options, when you pick one you factor in the cost of not doing the other.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Opportunity Cost I know as a pretty standard economic term. The rest seem bizarre. Trifecta I've heard of but not sure what it means, 3 of something I guess.

Opportunity cost was new to me I'm afraid. The Trifecta thing was in relation to a list of 'opportunities' we had and he said something like the winning trifecta would be... and then he listed three out of the however many.

It is from North American horse racing (maybe British ). Pick the winner of three races, compounding your bet - big money payoff if you win.

well in that case he used it wrongly, he was ranking them as to which would be the best

[Lord Kangana]

Tell him next time that you offer him your most enthusiastic contrafibularities on these far eastern deals being struck.

Then go on to say that you are anaspeptic, frasmotic and even compunctuous, but you haven't a clue as to what he's on about, and are sorry to have caused him such pericombobulations.

Then excuse your velocitous extramuralisation, saying you will return interfrastically, just as soon as you have prepared the pendegestatory interludicules.

Or just tell him to go f*ck himself, the pretentious nice person. Whichever.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Opportunity Cost I know as a pretty standard economic term. The rest seem bizarre. Trifecta I've heard of but not sure what it means, 3 of something I guess.

Opportunity cost was new to me I'm afraid. The Trifecta thing was in relation to a list of 'opportunities' we had and he said something like the winning trifecta would be... and then he listed three out of the however many.

It is from North American horse racing (maybe British ). Pick the winner of three races, compounding your bet - big money payoff if you win.

well in that case he used it wrongly, he was ranking them as to which would be the best

He might be right! I've just looked it up and it is defined as picking the first three horses in the same race in exact order. Well, I haven't been to the track in forty years.

[Lord Kangana]

City Coffee-brand w*nkers.

Hoboh, was right, this country is going to hell in a handcart.

(This is in the right thread, btw).