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Blunt is beautiful.(Scan: Short news and commentary)
Did you know that the term "secretary" is being replaced by the awkward phrase "administrative support staff"? Some committee decided that secretaries would be enriched by becoming ASSes. Think of all the ripple effects. On National Secretary's Day we'll be told: You have a great ASS so Take your ASS to lunch or Give your ASS the day off.
This is just one example among many of over-embellished titles. We've got baristas (coffee servers), building superintendents (handymen and janitors), and marketing associates (salesmen) to name a few. Nursery schools are early childhood education centers, the garbage dump is the landfill, and the toilet is the commode. Reluctant to let things be what they are, we have taken to dressing them up in names and words implying tremendous significance (NITWITS).
Most of this has been caused by a mistaken notion that blunt clarity may be offensive. And being offensive has replaced criminality as the most antisocial behavior one can display. Now that most criminals are victims of racism, economic deprivation, parental abuse, educational mismanagement, addictive behavior, the capitalist plot to create a pool of downtrodden wage slaves, or simple neurological misfiring, society's real villains are people who throw chardonnay bottles in the regular trash or call their ASS a ...
- Five Guys restaurant opens in Fairfield Shopping Center.(Virginia Beach Beacon)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot November 20, 2005 700+ words
Byline: CAROLE O'KEEFFE KEMPSVILL E -- BY CAROLE O'KEEFFE THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT KEMPSVILL E - By the end of November, Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries will have opened three stores in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. The franchise business began in Northern Virginia nearly two decades ago, when
- Five Guys restaurant figures you'll want fries with that.(Virginia Beach Beacon)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot September 15, 2005 700+ words
Byline: IRENE BOWERS BAYSIDE -- BY IRENE BOWERS THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT BAYSIDE - Fries, hand-cut on site and cooked in sizzling peanut oil, overflow from brown paper bags at the Five Guys no frills neighborhood burger joint that prides itself on huge servings and an uncomplicated menu . Five Guys is a
- GE Capital, Franchise Finance Doubles Credit Facility to Five Guys Restaurant...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 5, 2009 700+ words
Growth capital for one of America's fastest growing restaurant chains SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- GE Capital, Franchise Finance recently closed a $30MM loan to Five Guys Holdings, Inc., franchisor of Five Guys Burgers and Fries, doubling the size of the credit facility. The new facility is made up of a
- Ass
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology January 1, 2001 700+ words
...master. Other talking asses were Balaam's ass (Numbers 22), which...should be mounted on asses. The ass raised himself and pricked...most beautiful." The ass obeyed with judgment...discretion. These marvelous asses, said the demonologists...
- Asses
- Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science January 1, 2008 700+ words
...000. The Asiatic wild ass ( E. hemionus ) was formerly...subspecies of Asiatic wild asses are smaller than the kiang...summer. The Somali wild ass is an endangered species...slightly smaller Nubian wild ass, which lacks stripes...the wild. Domesticated asses are known as donkeys...
- Big Ass Fans help control temperature at manufacturing facility year...
- Magazine article from: Material Handling Product News September 1, 2005 700+ words
...Powerfoil[TM] (patent pending) Big Ass Fans later and Ruskin employees are feeling...Manager, that what they needed was a Big Ass Fan. Bruck was surprised to learn that...year round benefits to installing a Big Ass Fan. Bruck toured another local facility...
- "I am made an ass": Falstaff and the scatology of Windsor's polity.(Sir John...
- Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language Stockton, Will December 22, 2007 700+ words
...he used 'ass' to pun on the ass that gets beaten with a stick...that gets thumped sexually, the ass that bears a burden and the arse...homoerotic relation of masters to asses in seventeenth-century city...allow for a homonymic pun between ass and arse, I suggest that the...
- PREIS IS RIGHT FOR ASS'AD : NORTHRIDGE FRESHMAN REUNITED WITH COACH FROM HIS...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) September 19, 1996 700+ words
...Cal State Northridge men's soccer coach Marwan Ass'ad when he was 6 years old. Not only would Preis...parents paid for, but he would hang around and pester Ass'ad the rest of the summer. Ass'ad, because he loves anyone who loves soccer...
