Wednesday 6 February 2013

Buzzword Generator

Back in the infancy of computers in the late 1960s, a rather intelligent US Public Health Service official came up with what was then called the Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector, but is now generally referred to as the Buzzword Generator.

This caught on like wildfire, partly because it was published in Newsweek magazine, and partly because both in concept and execution, it is amazing. It basically allows anyone to create a terminologically brilliant set of words that describe pretty much nothing, but sound very important. If you were to receive a report with them in, you would definitely smile, nod, and make a mental note to immediately check online then delete your history so nobody would ever find out you didn't know what they meant.

The aim of the game is to choose any 3 numbers, find the corresponding words, and chuck them in your document. Though as it has been around for nearly 50 years you will probably not get away with it as easily as the elated office workers that first discovered it much to their bosses dismayed confusion.

So have fun, and I hope both your synchronized logistical hardware and your parallel organizational concept continue to run successfully.

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
0. integrated
0. management
0. options
1. total
1. organizational
1. flexibility
2. systematized
2. monitored
2. capability
3. parallel
3. reciprocal
3. mobility
4. functional
4. digital
4. programming
5. responsive
5. logistical
5. concept
6. optional
6. transitional
6. time-phase
7. synchronized
7. incremental
7. projection
8. compatible
8. third-generation
8. hardware
9. balanced
9. policy
9. contingency


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