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Itty bitty willy committee

"Belle you know Alex is apart of the itty bitty willy committee?"
by Rts2369 March 6, 2019
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Kelly's Law of Committees

None of us are as dumb as all of us.
A counter to the older, pro-teamwork adage "None of us are as smart as all of us."
Speaks to the risk of lower-level workers' input being useless if upper management gives its own opinion first, due to the tendency of workers to fall in line once the position of the leader (who could fire them for dissent) is known.
The wording above was written on a wall at NASA's Houston complex after the Challenger disaster, as reported by astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Although the concept has long been known of, once it took the form of an aphorism, it acquired a viral quality.
Niels Bohr and son Aage asked low-level engineer Richard Feynman their questions before asking higher-ups like Oppenheimer, partly to avoid taking up important administrators' time, but also to avoid Kelly's law of committees. Asking the higher-ups first, with lower-level workers present, would have a chilling effect on the latter's offering their own ideas and concerns.
by WhatwasIsaying December 24, 2024
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super-committee

Bringing great attention to, and making big fanfare about something that in reality has little or no possibility of sucess, or has far less significant outcome than originally expressed. Originates from the establishment of a Committee established to purportedly reduce the debt of the federal government in 2011. Unfortunately the committee and the establishment of this committee was all a ruse, and failed to produce any significant debt reduction, but more legislative back-biting in congress. Alt. - See Smoke and Mirrors.
You want a new car? Let me establish a super-committee and we'll get right on that one.
by halejr November 21, 2011
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Average titty committee

A committee full of girls who aren’t big boobie Betty but they also not flat Francesca JADA!
Girl 1- I’m apart of the average titty committee!

Girl 2- What’s that?
Girl 1- Look it up
by Anna Lluve November 12, 2019
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judishiary committee

A group of top mucky-mucks who really "dish it out" when it comes to "dispensing" justice.
We serve oatmeal for any of our school's students who actually want it, but I don't insist dat they all consume huge bowls of it for their morning meal --- I don't want said impressionable youngsters to invalidly think dat da cafeteria-workers are part of a "judishiary committee". We offer other healthy selections like shredded wheat and milk, whole wheat pasta and tomato sauce, chopped-fruit cups, scrambled eggs, whole-grain buttered toast, and cinnamon applesauce.
by QuacksO April 22, 2025
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U.S. house judiciary committee

Oh wow yeah... I don't see how that's EXACTLY THE SAME... As MY thing! How it's not, I'll never know... Yet HERE I SIT! I don't see how my thing isn't worse but OK!
Hym "Yeah, I don't see how you're U.S. house judiciary committee thing isn't just exactly the same as my thing... I don't see how I'm not integral to the plot! I mean, this is literally the retard mediated version of that! Instead of big tech companies and the government it's just the mentally handicapped. This is dogshit. I should be on Oprha or something! But NoOoOoOoOo! How's it not the same except worse? Why am I not on Oprah!? Is it because I called her a fat bitch and told her to stop eating bread!? IT HAS NO NUTRITIONAL VALUE OPRAH!"
by Hym Iam March 12, 2024
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Proof committee

Person: have you heard of the proof committee?
Person: yeah dude, it’s totally fake
by Therealcommittee January 13, 2019
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