wheelhouse
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
There was a real "herding cats" thing goin on abt this time last year
― DJ Admiral Crackbar - IT'S THE TRAP!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
My boss is a herding cats fanatic. I'd barely heard it until he started dropping it into almost every third phone conversation.
― stain on the nation (qiqing), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'm afraid I use this phrase on occasion. It's quite apt, so what ya gonna do?
― quincie, Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I don't mind it, but his overuse of the phrase got on my nerves. He has a rotating repertoire of phrases he uses to make himself sound more intelligent/witty.
― stain on the nation (qiqing), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
I used "herding cats" twice this week at work. u_u
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i heard it too the other day.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, 30 November 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
i used it unironically last week
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 November 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
were you herding some cats?
― Neil S, Friday, 30 November 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
sure why not
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 November 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
was actually herding cats "like herding cats"?
― Neil S, Friday, 30 November 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
I actually used this in my personal statement for grad school apps. Unironically. But in quotes. I am a horrible human being.
― quincie, Friday, 30 November 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
imperial phase
― just sayin, Saturday, 13 July 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
'Labour's Union Links' is a golf course, right?
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 13 July 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
closed shop sossidge innit
― j., Saturday, 13 July 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
the new normal
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 09:56 (ten years ago) link
is it me or has "offer" in that horrible noun usage meaning "the services or goods a company provides" sprung up everywhere in the last 3 or 4 months?
― cite gnu answers (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 08:23 (ten years ago) link
"kill (it / them / him /her) with fire" seemed to be popular a few weeks back but thankfully I think it's died down.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
Our postgraduate offering is really good.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Right-sizing
Sigh
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
I'd never heard of Right-sizing before!
― elegant eyes, aristocrat face, gorgeous hair (soref), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
amaright-sigh-zing
― elegant eyes, aristocrat face, gorgeous hair (soref), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Our postgraduate offering is really good
"offering" i could live with but "offer" seems to be the preferred word of the evil
― Noodzilla (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
xpost
you will...you will
it's the latest innovation that allows you to save crucial time and money by not having to say "our thing is not the correct size; we will change the size of the thing"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
One construction I've noticed in different places is along the lines of "fascism happens slowly, then very fast" and "how do you go bankrupt? first slowly, then quickly." Googling the bankruptcy variation, I was pointed to this exchange from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises:
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Anyway, I don't know that I'd ever heard this prior to a month ago. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the phrase recently becoming more popular, or is this more a case of me now knowing it and so seeing it everywhere.
― peace, man, Monday, 21 November 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link