EXACTLY the wording found in my Oxford Concise.Maryak said:Rant:
Use bombastic language - Declaim, recite theatrically; preach noisily
Piece of ranting, tirade; empty turgid talk.
Blogwitch said:To me, a picture on this site with a heading that says, 'look what I did last week', and nothing else, is not the way people should be shown. That just leads to frustration by the people seeing it, thinking that they will never be able to achieve it.
If you show something, also show and tell how it was achieved, otherwise you may as well post up pictures of roses growing in a garden, and saying you made them grow by putting BS around the roots.
Blogs
"Back in the late '30's I was working for Keystone Engineering, a jobbing machine shop in Los Angeles. I had just brought up a finished gear to the shipping department which opened out onto the street. As I was filling out the paperwork, a salesman walked in, said he carried a line of cleaning materials, brushes, etc., and wanted to know where he could find the shop foreman. I told him to wait right there because the foreman would be coming along in a minute or so.
"Fine," he aid. "By the way, what kind of work does this shop do?"
"We make gears, all kinds of gears," I told him.
"Gears? I didn't know you could make gears. I always thought you had to buy gears!"
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