[SimonSword]

This reminded me of the section about "Clutter" in the book "On writing well":

> Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. When the Digital Equipment Corporation eliminated 3,000 jobs its statement didn’t mention layoffs; those were “involuntary methodologies.” When an Air Force missile crashed, it “impacted with the ground prematurely.”

[docdeek]

> When an Air Force missile crashed, it “impacted with the ground prematurely.”

When I was a youngster in the Army Cadets in Australia I was told by one of the regular Army seargeants that no one in his company was ever “lost”. They could be “temporarily spatially displaced” but getting lost was strictly forbidden.

[Cthulhu_]

I like how in Kerbal Space Program, you don't crash, you "lithobrake". Like airbraking only on something with a bit more resistance.

[sethammons]

I had a science teacher who would kill mice before feeding them to his snake. His method was "rapid deceleration" (he threw them at the ground).

[WorldPeas]

Our science teacher in the 7th grade made a model coliseum out of foam-core and would release crickets into it for her lizards to eat during homeroom

[sethammons]

That's fantastic haha.

[therockspush]

More Air Force jargon, every now and then something on the plane had to be malletized.