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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 7 Aug 2014

    Can I ask you to blue sky that synergy? More on annoying business cliches: via @marketplace http://mktplc.org/V1mfad 

    11:09 AM - 7 Aug 2014
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      2. Inger Jakobsen  🇩🇰 🇫🇴 🇬🇱 🍰‏ @imbrunsgaard 7 Aug 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @Marketplace "blue sky that synergy" - Wanna play bullshit bingo?

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      3. Ariana Tobin‏Verified account @Ariana_Tobin 7 Aug 2014
        Replying to @imbrunsgaard

        @imbrunsgaard I jusdt @sapinker @Marketplace Yes. What are the rules? cc: @svaneksmith

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      4. Inger Jakobsen  🇩🇰 🇫🇴 🇬🇱 🍰‏ @imbrunsgaard 7 Aug 2014
        Replying to @Ariana_Tobin

        @Ariana_Tobin @sapinker @Marketplace @svaneksmith like bingo, just with buzz words, not numbers. You play at meetings and yell BS not Bingo.

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      5. Inger Jakobsen  🇩🇰 🇫🇴 🇬🇱 🍰‏ @imbrunsgaard 7 Aug 2014
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        @Ariana_Tobin @sapinker @Marketplace @svaneksmith http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullshit%20bingo …

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      1. HessE‏ @HessEdward 7 Aug 2014
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        Status seeking? "@sapinker:Can I ask you to blue sky that synergy?More on annoying business cliches:via @marketplace http://mktplc.org/V1mfad ”

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      1. Simon Tuffen‏ @SimonTuffen 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace It doesn't argue business-speakers are better for business, just better at fooling idiots for their own end.

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      1. Latest News Network‏ @lnnindia 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @SachinKalbag @Marketplace #LNN 12 नए बहुउद्देशीय बचाव उपकरण खरीदेगा यूपी सिविल डिफेन्स Read at - http://goo.gl/7Q00gQ 

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      1. रचित तिवारी‏ @rachitst 7 Aug 2014
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        "@sapinker: Can I ask you to blue sky that synergy? More on annoying business cliches: via @marketplace http://mktplc.org/V1mfad " Interesting

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      1. Dr. Sudhir Bisht‏ @sudhir_bisht 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @SachinKalbag @marketplace No, but I can strategize your tactical traction of Networth for implicit value zipped inversion.

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      1. Herb Hunter‏ @HerbHunterJr 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace I regard jargon use as an attempt to appear more competent and knowledgeable than is really the case.

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      1. Jason Mitchell‏ @Jasonsbit 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace instead of opening his komodo, he should buy into his core competence of zero transparency!

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      1. Zachariah Wells‏ @zachariahwells 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace Far too busy. Synergizing backward overflow.

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      1. Matt Roberts‏ @j_razor101 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace appreciate your thought grenades on this issue.

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      1. jeffhack‏ @PorscheJeff 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace a lot of language and dialect evolution is driven by the agenda of excluding outsiders, like northern england slang

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      1. Garth Gould‏ @GarthGould1 7 Aug 2014
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        @sapinker @Marketplace None will ever be so odious to me as, "Just making sure we're all on the same page." Banal and always an ill omen.

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      1. Sara Cornish‏ @s_nish 7 Aug 2014
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        Even @alyankovic pokes fun MT @sapinker: Can I ask you to blue sky that synergy? More on annoying business cliches http://mktplc.org/V1mfad 

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