"I have a tag for this in [REDACTED]," I told Bosslady yesterday. "Code mango."
"No more mangoes today!" I told her today, as the team meeting was breaking up.
"How did you come to choose that particular code word for this?" she asked, not having learned that sometimes asking me these things is not recommended if you don't actually want to know.
"I was up perhaps well past my bedtime and a phrase popped into my head, and since then I've been searching for something that fit it," I told her. I then attempted something like workplace-appropriate discretion in my choice of words. "What the mango-crapping fuck." ... Yeah. About that. Nice choice of words.
It is, indeed, an evocative and somewhat painful mental image. And yes, Bosslady agreed, entirely suited to the situation at hand.
On my way home, I asked![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amberfox whether actively mango-shitting or continuously mango-shitting was in fact the more emphatic form. We were both unsure at first which, but I thought about it a little harder.
"Actively mango-shitting means that the mango-shitting is happening right now," I mused. "But it doesn't necessarily imply anything about the past or future state of things. Whereas continuously mango-shitting means that not only is it probably happening right now, but it's been happening for a while, and is likely to be happening for quite some time to come if the past is any indication."
Amber was inclined to agree with that.
Now I have to figure out what tops "What the continuously mango-shitting fuck", just in case I need to use the phrase.
"No more mangoes today!" I told her today, as the team meeting was breaking up.
"How did you come to choose that particular code word for this?" she asked, not having learned that sometimes asking me these things is not recommended if you don't actually want to know.
"I was up perhaps well past my bedtime and a phrase popped into my head, and since then I've been searching for something that fit it," I told her. I then attempted something like workplace-appropriate discretion in my choice of words. "What the mango-crapping fuck." ... Yeah. About that. Nice choice of words.
It is, indeed, an evocative and somewhat painful mental image. And yes, Bosslady agreed, entirely suited to the situation at hand.
On my way home, I asked
amberfox whether actively mango-shitting or continuously mango-shitting was in fact the more emphatic form. We were both unsure at first which, but I thought about it a little harder. "Actively mango-shitting means that the mango-shitting is happening right now," I mused. "But it doesn't necessarily imply anything about the past or future state of things. Whereas continuously mango-shitting means that not only is it probably happening right now, but it's been happening for a while, and is likely to be happening for quite some time to come if the past is any indication."
Amber was inclined to agree with that.
Now I have to figure out what tops "What the continuously mango-shitting fuck", just in case I need to use the phrase.
