Euphemism of the Day

At today's session of the project which has been sucking up a lot of time (and everybody's will to live), one of the participants wanted to characterize a discussion between two members of senior leadership yesterday. But he's kind of an old-fashioned fellow and it was mixed company and it is work and all.

Hence, he used what I will now think of as a classic euphemism. He began, "After yesterday's urinary olympiad ..."

Pie-ku

I couldn't let National Poetry Month go by without a haiku. I don't write them much anymore, not since the days (a couple of jobs ago) when my boss and I exchanged haikus with my weekly activity report. I decided not to bother entering the Washington Post's contest for a haiku on the subject of pizza, but had I entered what I would have gone with is:

Neapolitan
or Sicilian style? Make mine
a New York pizza