'I'm asking you today to consider partnering once more with your University to achieve ongoing transformations.'
In a letter from the University of Melbourne 'Advancement Office' to Charles who comments: 'Presumably this is a euphemistic way to ask for money.'

'...add nuts and bolts on the options that people can embrace going forwards.' Hal Jacob heard this on Radio West's "Rural Focus" programme.

'The senators, with one exception, appear to have been hoodwinked by the weasel words of the advertising industry and its supporters.' 'Child sexualisation shrouded in weasel words', Clive Hamilton, 29 June Sunday Age

'The purpose of the Solution Architect role is to lead strategic design, scoping activities and support the implementation of information solutions that meet organisational plans, needs, and functions, and assure their alignment to enterprise goals and the overall IS architecture. The role has primary responsibility for maintaining and deploying the Enterprise Architecture, with particular emphasis on Technology Infrastructure and the Security Framework.' A position advertised with one of the New Zealand District Health Boards. Thanks to Bill.

'Trekking the Original Kokoda War Track is a right (sic) of passage all Australians should aspire to achieve .' We strongly believe, pre-trek Kokoda Track preparation is the key to our success.  For this reason, participants commence their Kokoda bushwalking adventure with Our Spirit up to 3 months prior to departure with a comprehensive pre-trek training program including event specific exercise and nutritional advice with Wellbeing Solutions.  Our Spirit Website

Purified water enhanced with minerals for a pure, fresh taste'.  Label on 'Dasani' bottled water which Coca Cola pumps from Atlanta's (nearly exhausted) municipal water supply and is chemically indistinguishable from it.

Quality Initiatives Grants 2007 - La Trobe University, Victoria

In 2007 the University will continue the succesful scheme of Quality Initiatives Grants. These grants assist groups to research/develop and/or implement a quality improvement initiative. Projects may be initiated from any organisational unit within the University...

Quality Initiative Grants support the development, pilot or introductory phase of an activity and proposals are assessed in terms of the following criteria:
. the feasibility of what is proposed, including the appropriateness of the plan, timescale and resources applied to the project
. demonstration of a clear link between the funding proposals and the Quality Improvement Plans of the Organisational unit as a whole .'

10 - Remain accountable to ultimate beneficiaries ... Where governance is unsatisfactory it is even more important to anchor development firmly in stakeholder participation and to maintain pressure points for an inclusive accountability system.
From '10 Default Principles for Capacity Development', a PNG document. Thanks to Peter Laing.

'...it's not about swinging the axe and sending messages…..it's about who's best living the behaviours we want and the leaders want at the club.' St Kilda Football coach, Ross Lyon. Thanks to David Britton.

'... Karl Rove insists that he never precisely leaked Plame's name itself. (Rather, he seems to have confirmed that he'd heard that former Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, not that he named her. With the cover of such weasel words indictments are dodged.)' Jack Tapper 'McClellan: Bush Shoulda Canned Rove', 2 June 2008, Political Punch - ABC News Blog

'I work in one of those humble call centres for a bank. Apparently, what we're doing at the moment is sprinkling our magic along the way. It's a call centre, not Hogwarts.'

'I once had a boss who said, ' You can't have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music .' It was in that moment I knew I had to resign before somebody got badly hurt by a pencil.'

'In my work environment it's all cascading at the moment. What they really mean is to communicate or disseminate information, usually downwards. What they don't seem to appreciate is that it sounds like we're being wee'd on. Which we usually are.'
50 office-speak phrases you love to hate, BBC Many thanks to Josephine Kneipp

'The crucial capacity constraints will soon become the core of the network.' Connex chief executive Bruce Hughes, the Melbourne Age.