How dare you. I'm a web editor, sir.

Turning impenetrable gibberish into plain English, so that normal people can carry out the incredibly simple tasks techies seem incapable of explaining, had been a big part of this job, as it happens.

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But do we know of how much imagination a gnat is possessed?

Read this book. There's a chapter on this very subject.

So what are they thinking?

Leo Lonergan says: my bos wrote:

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I just had a pizza in the Ritzy, while they blasted out Public Enemy. I'm going to respond to everything in the voice of Flavour Flav this afternoon.

So - have you got any paid leave to use up?

King Mob, EIM - In America, we call that Cafe Dairy Queen. They pioneered The Blizzard. I don't know if they do creme eggs, but you can get Oreos, cookie dough, M&Ms, Nerds Candy, Reeses Cups and a lot of other things. This month, they're featuring the Girl Scout Thin Mint Blizzard. I must find a DQ ASAP and procure one of these forthwith.

Some McDonald's have something similar with a rip-off name. I think they're called The High Winds and Heavy Snowfall With Up To 18 Inces of Accumulation In The Outlying Areas... or something like that.

Reed of the Valley People wrote:

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Up To 18 Inces of Accumulation

A frightening vision...

Has Reed come over all Beardhammer?

Beardhammer? I'm talking about tasty ice cream treats!

My joke seems to have missed.

In the U.S., at least, the weather people often talk about a snow storm in terms of "inches of accumulation," meaning how deep the snow will be on the ground when the snow stops falling.
McDonald's name for their thing that is exactly like DQ's is something very similar to Blizzard, but I can't recall exactly, so I made that up.

If you have to explain it....

McFlurry.

That's right.

That's actually a worse name than I thought. Blizzard implies a torrent of refreshing flavor. Flurry implies "you probably won't even notice it."