[Editors] Fwd: Re: talking the walk? / Dilbert cartoon

[Eve Sullivan]

ha!  funny!  thanks for sending.

>Eve Sullivan wrote:
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>>The phrase 'walk the talk' just plain curls my teeth....
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>yep. It's really pretty nonsensical.
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>there's a good dilbert cartoon about it:
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>http://books.google.com/books?id=kSeH70EMy0QC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=dilbert+%22use+a+walkie+talkie%22&source=web&ots=9-JNOv09to&sig=WS4kAmTSIhmyrJh1nNxwLIoYDDk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA89,M1
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>it's also an excellent phrase for buzzword bingo...
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>a more morbid, but equally silly phrase is "to drink one's own 
>kool-aid", a suggestion that you should do the things you're 
>preaching to others, but a warning that you may be following the 
>good Reverend Jim Jones...
>
>-Lukas