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Subject:Re: Fun Words From:Cindy Metzger <cmetzger -at- DUKANE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:30:03 -0500
Jason wrote,
> Thanks to one of my previous bosses, there was a department of the
> company looking for an "escape goat" for a project gone awry. Oddly
> appropriate. . .
>
> He also "prepositioned" his comments instead of prefacing them.
Must be my boss's twin brother, whose favorite phrase was "it's a mute
point" (instead of moot). He also referred to "personnel computers" rather
frequently in his writing.
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