Taken from the now-retired BifSniff cartoons. Go visit their blog here.

Cahony wrote some time ago about the phenomenon of bullshit bingo in CorporateLand. He emailed me another one last week that induced a great belly laugh that went something like ... "I want to fry an idea in your think wok". (I'm aware of my sometimes louder-than-what-is-acceptable laugh and furious thigh slapping)
From here on in, it should be everyone's mission in life to spread this wonderful shitspeak to relations, friends and colleagues.

The whole thinking outside of the box is a skill I once tried to teach myself at college while researching a theory developed by Edward de Bono that involved the much more appropriately phrased concept of lateral thinking. This endeavour predictably fell flat, but the onus was nevertheless on me to present to the class my learnings on the subject. The details of a demonstration of lateral thinking during the presentation escape me now, but it went something along the lines of asking a random volunteer in the class to proffer a common everyday problem and for me to solve it using lateral thinking in the process. My plant had acted out the part as random volunteer quite exquisitely. However, her acting skills were somewhat better than mine. I went on to give the most amazing answer in the most unconvincing fashion possible, much to the amusement of the back row boys who refused to conceal their mirth.

The Guardian has an interview with de Bono in today's edition. He truly does think in mysterious ways. See what I did there?

tags:lateral thinking

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