RE: UKNM: Brainstorming - PC's Next Victim

[John Foster-Hill]

Perhaps, 'Mentalisting'?

;-)


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From: Ashley Pomeroy [

arptermisoc [dot] org (mailto:arptermisoc [dot] org)

]

Sent: 10 January 2001 15:18

To:

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: UKNM: Brainstorming - PC's Next Victim



>>>>Apparently the word 'brainstorming' is offensive to folks with

cerebral palsy. The new PC word for it is, apparently,

'greenbraining'.<<<<


I would expect it to be offensive to dsylexic stunt pilots. Think about it

for a second.


I hate the word 'brainstorm'. It conjures up a mental image of

poorly-educated middle-managers in ill-fitting suits, promoted purely

because they fit in and buy drinks during office parties, sitting before a

sheet of paper on which is sketched a circle with 'What do you associate

with Bovril?'. Mediocrity multiplies - ten mediocre people working in a

team produce ideas which are ten times as mediocre.


'Greenbraining' makes me think of Graham Crowden from 'Britannia Hospital'

placing a rotting brain in a blender, blending it, and drinking the

results. And then I think of Malcolm McDowell, naked. Which makes me want

to gag.


Given the macho nature of business culture, how about 'bullrunning', or

'teambusting'? 'Synergism'? 'Mentanetting'? 'Dossing'?


-

"In the land of the blind, the blindest man is king"

Ashley Pomeroy -

arpslab [dot] org

 - http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/



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