Word for today: circumvent

[plonq]

From the text of an internal broadcast:

"CONGRADUALATIONS TO THE WINNERS AND THANKS TO ALL WHO PLAYED."

<shudder> I think I need to drink some more coffee to placate my inner spelling nazi; one more email like that one and it will burst out through my rib cage like a hungry alien.  Sadly our email client includes an automatic spell-checker.

I think the all-time classic is still the message sent out by a relief manager who was concerned that employees were ignoring an ordinance that he had passed the prior week:  "It has come to my attention that some of our staff are continually trying to circumcise the rules..."

Comments

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

Don't you circumcise the rules? It's a very tempting thing to cut sometimes.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I suppose that if you are circumventing the rules, you are cutting around them in a manner of speaking...

[typographer.livejournal.com]

I don't want to know how they think people are circumcising a rule.

OTOH, my fingers are as apt to type the wrong word as my tongue is to say it, sometimes, and I've certainly said things as unintentionally funny as that.

:P

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I think the "circumcised rules" message is funnier when you know the person who sent it. Think of a pompous, self-important manager with a history of brutalizing the written language. He was one of those very colourful individuals who seem to be slowly disappearing from the railroad scene.