On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:38:26 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

PLEASE NOTE THE TERM 'POLITICALLY INCORRECT' IS NOW CONSIDERED
OFFENSIVE TO POLITICIANS: No more brainstorming is allowed at the
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Belfast, Ireland.
While staffers maybe, just maybe, will be allowed to think in groups,
they can't call it "brainstorming" anymore "on the grounds that it
may be deemed pejorative," a DETI spokeswoman says. How's that? The
word, they figure, might, just perhaps, be somehow offensive to
people with various brain disorders. Employees have been ordered to
use the term "thought-shower" instead. (London Observer) ...Sounds
reasonable, since apparently several managers there have a brain
disorder.

Ms Whitebread, the HR dragon at the old puzzlepalace, let us know
that the terms "spook project" and "black project" should not be used.

Ms Whitebread didn't get past the doors with the dials, so it didn't
change anything.