Found on BBC News UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11420737 in response to Emma Thompson's attack on 'sloppy language'.
QUOTE: I accidentally referred to the financial crisis as '...a right gungaflex' (major disaster) in a job interview about a year ago. The interviewer stared at me with a sort of bored, affronted blankness for several seconds before asking me to explain what I meant. I couldn't, so was asked to leave. It was a real shame as we'd been getting on like a house on fire before that. Conclusion: Keep slang out of da workplace an in de yard, fen de gwan ruff riderz.
Provastian Jackson, Tavis
QUOTE: I accidentally referred to the financial crisis as '...a right gungaflex' (major disaster) in a job interview about a year ago. The interviewer stared at me with a sort of bored, affronted blankness for several seconds before asking me to explain what I meant. I couldn't, so was asked to leave. It was a real shame as we'd been getting on like a house on fire before that. Conclusion: Keep slang out of da workplace an in de yard, fen de gwan ruff riderz.
Provastian Jackson, Tavis
by urban_virgin October 20, 2010