School Data Sightings

How many of these outrages are installed in your hallways?


*apple-polisher
*backseat driver
*bulldozer
*bully *chopping block *copy cat *dead end *dumpster

*fall guy *flatulence *foreplay
*gone bananas
*hell in a handbasket
*interruptus
*jumped to conclusions
*knuckled under
*led by the nose
*lowered the boom
*mystery meat
*mudsling
*miles per hour

*environmental impact statement gateway

*needle in a haystack
*nutty as a fruitcake
*not worth the paper it’s printed on
*out to lunch
*protective services
*quisling
*radioactive decay
*rat race
*ruling the roost
*scapegoated *showboating
*screw loose
*sell you the Brooklyn Bridge
*too pooped to pop
*tsunami
*under a cloud
*upchuck
*voodoo
*Waterloo
*wild goose chase

“Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.” –Mark Twain (attribution)

80 Ways They Cook the Data

Al dente
Au juis
à la carte
à la king
à la mode
à la money

Baked
Braised
Boiled
Beaten
Butchered

Canned
Curried
Creamed
Churned
Charred

Diced
Deveined
Deglazed
Drained

Flaked
Fricasséed
Fondued
Frittered

Grated
Gratineed
Ground
Goosed

Iced
Infused
Irradiated

Jellied
Julienne
Juiced

Kneaded
Molded
Marinated
Macerated

Overdone

Peeled
Parboiled
Poached
Puréed
Pickled
Pressed
Pinched

Raw
Roasted
Reduced
Reconstituted
Refried

Sliced
Sauted
Stewed
Stuffed
Steamed
Skewered
Smeared
Sucked Dry

Toasted
Tenderized
Truffled
Trussed
Triple Secced
Tutti-fruittied
Tossed

Unleavened
Unsalted
Upside down caked

Vinaigretted
Vol-au-vented
Vivisected

Waffled
Wall-eyed
Waxed
Woked
Whisked
Whipped

With Carrot Sticks
On rye
And a grain of salt

With pomp
And circumstance

Signifying
Nothing