"Deferred Success" is new term for failure? Thought-Showers??

[DS1]

:puke:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In 2005, some people wanted the word "brainstorming" replaced by "thought shower" so as not to offend people with brain disorders, and they also wanted "deferred success" to replace "failure" so as not to embarrass those who don't succeed.

Both phrases appear on a tongue-in-cheek list released on Thursday of the year's most politically correct words and phrases issued by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that monitors language use.

The phrase that topped this year's list was "misguided criminals," one of several terms the British Broadcasting Corporation used so as not to use the word "terrorist" in describing those who carried out train and bus bombings in London that killed 52 people in July, according to Paul JJ Payack, the head of Global Language Monitor.

He added, "The BBC attempts to strip away all emotion by using what it considers 'neutral' descriptions when describing those who carried out the bombings in the London Tubes."



http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2005-11-18T152638Z_01_FLE855578_RTRUKOC_0_US-ODD-WORDS.xml

[underpants]

1. Now telll me that doesn't sound like a WH press conference

I read that. Pretty damned stupid IMHO but "deferred success" sounds like something Ari or Scottie would say.

[matcom]

2. so basically your thought shower has been a deferred success?

:D

[DS1]

3. Well, since I think with my dick, I'd say it was in a state of perpetual

rise

[swimboy]

5. Thought shower or grower?

:evilgrin:

[NV Whino]

4. Yeah, okay, I get it.

The Iraq war is a deferred success.

[tjwash]

6. Yeah, I guess "deferred success" captures this administration.

nt

[SOteric]

7. The phrase 'Deferred Sense' comes to mind.

[matcom]

8. |

:spray:

[DS1]

9. I was just heading out to go buy a new Mustang with Deferred Cents

:groan: :D

[SOteric]

11. Ooooooo, groanworthy puns

give me an urge for Deferred Laughter.

[Abelman]

10. Brainstorming is so crass

The term is "Spitballing." Who could that offend?