She: "Any good comments on the cafeteria boards?" Me: "People take their food too personally." She: "How do you mean?" Me: "It's hard to explain. It's like the presence of broccoli is offensive to them or something." She: "Well I can understand that, given what broccoli has done to me in the past." Me: "Thank
Me: "I think I'll jettison all this identity theft anxiety." She: "How?" Me: "I'll post all my personal financial information to DTLI? and hold a contest to see who could ruin my credit rating first." She: "Really? Sort of skipping the middle-man and putting the power in the hands of everyday working thieves?" Me: "Exactly!
I'm in favor of generating language -- it's almost as much fun as pronouncing words backwards. I certainly prefer it to Pig Latin. However, when presenters make a conscious decision to introduce wordplay as real terms, then it makes for a long, deadly and dull conference. Or rather, it longed, deadlied and dullished the conference.
