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Ok this week's euphemism challenge for everyone:
Please provide the readers with euphemisms in lieu of "talking on the phone". I'll get you started...
communicating with the disembodied
sending your voice on trip
pulling an ET
thats all I can think of for now... this one seems difficult...
vocal intercourse
giving long distance lip service
networking
keeping up foreign relations
doin the dialogue
when the voices in your head have a friend over
Giving someone a bell.Also, for those that have ever seen the TV series Catweasel:
"Using the magic telling bone"
chewing the fat on the wire
paying homage to Alexander
from one receiver to another
and the much famed - reaching out to touch someone
one of my co-workers asked if a certain important person was around, and I said no. They were awarding some sort of certificate to someone and needed it signed right then. "I forge his name all the time," I said. So my friend turns to our Executive Director and says, "Heidi says she has knowledge of how to sign his name." It was just funny because we were at work & you could tell she was trying to be professional about it, and not outright say that I forge people's names. "Has knowledge of how to sign"--HAA! Maybe you had to be there, but it cracked me up.
we need to revive this thread. my head has nothing in it to facilitate such revival.
Ok... euphemisms for... quitting smoking.
trying to fall on the wagon
learning to breathe air
hiding the cylinders from yourself
keeping up with the jonesings
trying not to suck
sticking it to the marlboro man
"Reviving the cillia" - Pat Roche
signing a clean air act.
Believing in the State of California.
... I need something to fill my good excuses and/or snappy comebacks for the times when honestly, I'd rather just sit on my butt and play Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 than go out to some karaoke bar.anyone?
putting the virtual pedal to the virtual medal
practicing hand/eye coordination campaigning for 'geek of the year' spending quality time with your couch spending quality time with your 'real friends' pushing people's buttons
workin the thumbcercizer
working on my dissertation
how about, real-time creative problem solving?or what about,
operating in the VR, stat!
[erm, maybe not. that one was kinda dumb.]
Having an interactive labotomy
looking for WMD's?
baggins, that's a good one!! And Cinn, that thing about you forging signatures is hilarious! When we were making a push for online registration and everyone was worried about not having counselor's signature's on reg forms, I always explained how I learned how to forge my couselor's signature early on in order to register when I was an undergrad. Anyhow, it's nice to hear I'm not alone :) Let's see, quitting smoking... how about pulling the nails out of my coffin?
because I think today will be my last day of smoking--EVER. Frankly, I'm a little scared. I don't think I'm addicted, but then again, maybe I am if the thought freaks me out a bit. Hernando has his driving test today, and I'm sure he'll pass. And our deal was that I would quit smoking once he got his license. I know it'll be good for me, and it's high time I quit. So I'll be pulling the nails out of my coffin...
wink, wink