Going forward!

When - did you have competitions to see how many times team members could use the buzzwords. One of my favourites was "we're on a journey", as some kind of excuse for the mess an organisation I was employed by increasingly got itself into.

Yes but "lessons will be learnt"

Yes indeed newest, or won't in reality.
I just read the summary of a Part 8 review, into the murder of a 2 year old boy who lived a couple of miles away. His stepfather caused over 20 significant injuries to the little chap, whose mother found him floppy, and he was dead on arrival in hospital. The findings, and recommendations, could have been cut and pasted from any of the other part 8 reviews over recent years.
Sorry all - I don't want to derail this fun thread, but 'lessons will be learnt' increasingly makes me want to chuck stuff at the tv/radio.

Yes, Iam - 'blue sky thinking' and 'helicopter vision' can't be used more than once in a lifetime without your colleagues realising what a plonker you are. We had a colleague who peppered her meeting input with every daft phrase she had heard from senior managers, and sure enough she was promoted to her own level of incompetence. Demoted just before I retired!

That was to your earlier post, Iam

LOL when! No irony there then.
"on a journey together" is another of my favourites, especially when used by new managers to staff groups who have been on that journey for some years.

Synchronicity was my most hated management-speak word.
I am very proud of my dead pan delivery of "No matter how far we push the envelope it will still be stationery" though. (Pedants may be able to hear the difference between ery and ary, but it was good enough for my audience).

Nice touch, Mamie

Mamie - great one

Mamie good one
gally yes I'm in Virginia at the moment, 6" of snow and the bluest, brightest sky ever.
Which is why I'm on GN at the same time as you, but the day before, IYSWIM.

Mamie that's brilliant.
Iam that present continuous is one of my pet hates - sorry! Too many syllables to say the same as 'I love it'. I am very pedantic....

Are any of you planning anything for Valentines? (Grrrr)

Well, it's my birthday so I always get cards and presents!! In fact when i was a skinny spotty early teenager, the postman used to look at me all puzzled, wondering what secret attractions I had!!

I find soppiness embarrassing though, so there isn't much of the hearts and flowers stuff around me.

don't you mean present's? (sorry, couldn't resist)

Ha Ha.

Yes, I AM one of those pedantic people who rub our the greengrocer's apostrophe when passing his chalk board.

I just can't help myself.

Onward, onward, fight against the foe
Forward fore ward, see our banners go!
Or something like that?

And to those of us who remember the womens lib virtual party!

Equality!
Swing, swing, swing ye along!

Onward Christian soldiers, Galen...?

(Don't remember the Equality one at all)

No! It was a musical. The verse ends 'And to hell with Burgundy'
Never agreed with that as it's my favourite wine.
Love' nights without George'

Ah!
The vagabond king by Frumi

Here you go!!

Thanks. That's it!
Stirring ain't it?
Just ordered the DVD that comes withe 'Student prince' as well.

Gaudeamus igitur
Iuvenestus sumus!

My spellchecker day spake Latin or black country ?

A good bit of rousing!

WOW!

I think we should adopt it as the GN anthem.!

Let us rejoice for we are young!

It was sung by the university choir at my (late in life) graduation at the University of Queensland. I thought it was magic - a sort of connection to mediaeval times. I did Latin at school so the words make sense.

Would be a nice anthem for us, wouldn't it - though the juvenes bit is rather wishful thinking. Full words and translation:-

www.users.on.net/~algernon/gaudeamus/translation.html