By welly223 - 20/01/2011 06:01 - Canada

Spicy
Today, I was chosen by my coworkers to explain to my elderly boss that ''tossing the salad'' isn't another expression for saying ''brainstorming''. She didn't believe me. Guess we will all keep ''tossing the salad'' for new ideas each afternoon. FML
I agree, your life sucks 27 198
You deserved it 3 289

Same thing different taste

Top comments

FYLDeep 25

Maybe she comes up with her best ideas when she's tossing the salad. Who are you to judge?

looks like you guys will just have to "toss the salad" on other ways to tell him

Comments

hardly an fml. more of an fml for me reading it

WaylonD 4

Tell her that she needs to lick butthole for new ideas!

fw1774 0
ulicksam 0

So you and all your co-workers have a good laugh now and then. That's a FML?

rockarolln89 0

I'd keep on going with it! Just wait until one of the guys up on the higher rungs pays a visit and attends one of these sessions!

perdix 29

Instead of workiñg so hard at "tossing the salad," you ought to "**** the dog" for the rest of the day. (I hope you Canadians know that Americans don't use that figure of speech. We'd think your lazy people are literally zoophiles.)

Yeah, I had no idea what it was. I actually had to look it up.

Figures of speech are idiomatic. You can use a phrase to mean whatever the hell you want. You want to know what tossing a salad means? It means to toss a salad. Her colloquial use is as valid as yours. And personally, I'd say her meaning makes more analogical sense.

RedPillSucks 31

Yeah. Now I gotta be carefull what to say in meetings. I don't think I'll ever be able to eat tossed salad again. And I have to change the name of my yacht from "blue waffle" to "pacific rim job" or something.

Shadow_Phantom 26

@27: I agree with you here. The dirty meaning of the phrase just does NOT make sense to me how the two are connected in any manner... The elderly boss' use makes more sense.

perdix 29

@macskapingvin: ANALogical sense?!?!? Oh, you dirty, dirty Sanchez, with such a flawless victory, you ought to win a cup, presented to you by two girls.

what can two girls possibly do with one cup?

that's awesome. you can create a fake email address, one that can't be connected to you, and then email her various "salad tossing" webpage links (start with urban dictionary, then go straight to you ****). then maybe she will believe you.

Give her another random term for brainstorming and explain "that's what all the cool cats say nowadays" lol

you have amazing eyes! just saying.. :)

_Vamp_ 9

Now everybody loves some BBQ haha