Are we creating Centers of Excellence or Hot Spots of Vague Competency?

Diplomatic - efforts to maintain relationship with dips

To truly sing the blues, you have to go through pain and tragedy. To do parody, you need to work in the corporate world.

Taggart Card - Used in conversation about your work, "I'm playing the 'Taggart Card'". A reference to Atlas Shrugged character who defended his incompetence, "it's not my fault. no one could have anticipated that. you can't blame me."

Ill timed flatulence is God's way of letting you know you are taking things too seriously.

Mummy Code - a software term used to describe layers of bandages and patches written around a core of dead code which is still used.