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shelee
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 Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:19 Post subject: have a little fun at your next meeting...
How to stay awake in meetings:
Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls? Here's a way to change all of that. Bull shit bingo.
1. Before (or during) your next meeting, seminar, or conference call, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that 5"x5" is a good
size. Divide the card into columns-five across and five down. That will give you 25 one-inch blocks.
>2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:
* synergy
* strategic fit
* core competencies
* best practice
* bottom line
* revisit
* expeditious
* to tell you the truth (or "the truth is")
* 24/7
* out of the loop
* benchmark
* value-added
* proactive
* win-win
* think outside the box
* fast track
* result-driven
* empower (or empowerment)
* knowledge base
* at the end of the day
* touch base
* mindset
* client focus(ed)
* paradigm
* game plan
* leverage
3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those
words/phrases.
4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or
diagonally, you must stand up and shout "ship!"
Testimonials from satisfied "ship Bingo" players:
* "I had been in the meeting for only five minutes when I won."- Adam W., Atlanta
* "My attention span at meetings has improved dramatically."- David T.,
Florida
* "What a gas! Meetings will never be the same for me after my first
win."- Dan J., New York City
* "The atmosphere was tense in the last process meeting as 14 of us waited for the fifth box." - Ben G., Denver
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:23 Post subject:
A job long ago...
a place far away...
..I played this
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TimRuns
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:28 Post subject:
 In my case I usually stay awake and focused in my lectures especially boring ones by doodling all over my notes. There was one time however when I witnessed a small-scale paper-ball fight between 2 or 3 fellow classmates in lecture (while the prof's lecturing away). Some people just never grow up even after high school... 
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shelee
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:42 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | In my case I usually stay awake and focused in my lectures especially boring ones by doodling all over my notes. There was one time however when I witnessed a small-scale paper-ball fight between 2 or 3 fellow classmates in lecture (while the prof's lecturing away). Some people just never grow up even after high school... |
so, it would be fair to say...it was rather juvenile to have to stay after class (in college) for passing notes during theology lecture. 
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shelee
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:43 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | A job long ago...
a place far away...
..I played this |
now you run those meetings! don't ya! LOL!!!!
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omega lambda
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:18 Post subject:
With some minor tweaking of the words/phrases to suit an academic environment, we could beat Adam W.'s record.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 16:21 Post subject:
Or just go here if you do not want to create your cards by hand.
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 22:48 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | Or just go here if you do not want to create your cards by hand. |
for the ultimate in laziness...
drawing on my notes has always been a staple of mind numbing lectures. in a geography class i had two years ago, i had pages upon pages of swirlies i had drawn. as the semester went on, i brought colored pens to class and drew with those. in an old chem book i had, i drew a whole color-coordinated art project with some gel pens and folding the pages to make ink blot-type pics...
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shelee
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Posted: 08/29/03 - 07:11 Post subject:
| crazyfrog wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | Or just go here if you do not want to create your cards by hand. |
for the ultimate in laziness...
drawing on my notes has always been a staple of mind numbing lectures. in a geography class i had two years ago, i had pages upon pages of swirlies i had drawn. as the semester went on, i brought colored pens to class and drew with those. in an old chem book i had, i drew a whole color-coordinated art project with some gel pens and folding the pages to make ink blot-type pics... |
it's a slippery slope, isn't it...first the pencil...then the colored pencil...I started bringing my 2B art pencils to my refresher math course. Couldn't understand a darn thing the TA was saying anyway. 
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copteacher
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Posted: 08/29/03 - 07:14 Post subject:
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robp
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Posted: 08/29/03 - 07:33 Post subject:
I'm a major doodler.... having some pretty decent talent at cartooning has led to some fairly spectacular pages of notes.... I used to have people fighting to sit next to me in my English classes during my college stint. Now I just entertain a few of the folks here at work.
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