Unreferenced section date February 2012 The 7 Ps is a British Army adage Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance The 7 Ps are normally referred to as the 7 Ps rather than as an acronym i.e. PPPPPPP . Educators and trainers in military or civilian situations find it useful to first introduce the phrase the 7 Ps . When it is explained, the humour and shock of the mild expletive help make the adage memorable. This adage is often used in project planning, or when training for life or death situations. Other versions of the 7 Ps Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Prior Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance Piss Poor Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Positive Pre Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Over time , the phrase has been changed to include the word practice in order to better fit certain scenarios. For example Proper Planning and Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance Prior Proper Planning Prevents Painfully Poor Production Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Production Variations The 6 Ps Proper Planning Prevents Pretty Poor Performance Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Production Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Proper Prior Planning Promotes Peak Performance Prior Planning Precludes Piss Poor Performance The 5 Ps euphemized Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance Prior Planning Provides People Protection Proper Planning Provides People Protection Proper Practice Prepares Perfect Players Poor Planning Promotes Poor Performance The 10 Ps Prior planning promotes proper performance, presentation, passion, play, pray and pay Purpose, prior planning, passion, patience and persistence prevent piss poor performance. The 12 Ps Purpose ... more details
The Edinburgh Defence is an Internet humor Internet adage employed in online forums and message boards the basic premise of which is that when losing discussion or argument rather than conceding defeat the poster suddenly switches tactics and adopts an I was only joking approach. The adage was first used on the UK based http singletrackworld.com forum singletrackworld.com mountain biking forum. Category Internet culture ... more details
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Murphys may refer to Murphys, California Murphys, former name of Meeks Bay, California Murphy s Irish Stout , a stout from Cork Murphy s Brewery in Ireland, brewer of Murphy s Irish Stout Murphy s law , popular adage See also Murphy disambiguation Dropkick Murphys disambig ... more details
Hear No Evil may refer to Part of the adage See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil Hear No Evil film a 1993 film starring Marlee Matlin and Martin Sheen Hear No Evil Lord EP a 2008 EP by Australian heavy metal band Lord disambig ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 for the military adage 7 Ps military adage In marketing , the seven Ps refer to the product, price, promotion, place, process, physical evidence and people that make up the marketing mix . They are an extension of the more basic Marketing mix Four P s four Ps product, place, price and promotion. Physical evidence refers to elements within the store the store front, the uniforms employees wear, signboards, etc. People refers to the employees of the organisation with whom customers come into contact with. Process refers to the processes and systems within the organisation that affects its marketing process. ref cite web url http www.entrepreneur.com marketing article70824.html title The 7 Ps of Marketing accessdate 2011 11 12 ref References Reflist colwidth 30em Category Marketing business stub ... more details
Many a true word is spoken in jest is an adage , aphorism or proverb . A version of this appears in The Monk s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye . ref citation title The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs author Jennifer Speake, John Simpson year 2009 isbn 978 0 19 953953 6 publisher Oxford University Press ref James Joyce combined this sentiment with the similar adage of in vino veritas to coin the phrase in risu veritas . ref citation page 141 publisher Cambridge University Press year 2003 isbn 978 0 521 82727 0 title Shakespeare and comedy chapter Shakespeare after Joyce author Maud Ellmann ref References reflist Category Adages Category Proverbs ... more details
The squeaky wheel is a metaphor in the aphorism , It is the squeaky wheel that gets the Grease lubricant grease . or ...gets the oil . ref http dictionary.reference.com search?q squeaky 20wheel 20gets 20the 20grease Dictionary reference.com ref The adage conveys the idea that the most noticeable or loudest problems are the ones most likely to get attention. There is a book called The Squeaky Wheel, as well as several with that term in their name. See also Advocacy group Lobbying Silence is golden Notes reflist Category English phrases Category Lobbying ... more details
No good deed can refer to the adage No good deed goes unpunished as a proper name, it can refer to No Good Deed , a 2002 film No Good Deed song No Good Deed song , a song from the Broadway musical Wicked No Good Deed CSI NY No Good Deed CSI NY , a 2009 CSI NY episode No Good Deed Parenthood No Good Deed Parenthood , a 2010 Parenthood episode disambig ... more details
Apophthegmata is the title of several collections of aphorism s adage s Apophthegmata Laconica attributed to Plutarchus Apophthegmata Patrum , sayings of the Desert Fathers Apophthegmata Macarii Magni Apophthegmatum opus by Erasmus of Rotterdam Conrad Lycosthenes ca. 1518 1561 , Apophthegmata, Ex Probatis Graecae Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus Julius Wilhelm Zincgref , Der Teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Spr ch 1626 Georg Philipp Harsd rffer , Ars Apophthegmatica 1655 56 disambig pl Apoftegmat ... more details
has been profiled in BusinessWeek , AdAge , Nieman Journalism Lab . ref cite web title ... batty gawker media 146079 publisher AdAge accessdate 2 April 2012 ref ref name NL Batty left ... website Global Business Elite . ref name AdAge The website hopes to occupy the similar space as The Economist ... more details
one source date July 2008 Orphan date August 2008 The laws of infernal dynamics are an adage about the cursedness of the universe . Attributed to Science fiction author David Gerrold , the laws are as follows An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction. An object at rest will be in the wrong place. The energy required to move an object in the correct direction, or put it in the right place, will be more than you wish to expend but not so much as to make the task impossible. The laws are a parody on the first and second of Newton s laws of motion in the spirit of Murphy s law . Newton s first law of motion has here been split into two parts, the first two laws. Newton s third law of motion is left unparodied, though a separate adage states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. References reflist cite book last Todd first Richard Watson authorlink coauthors title Much Ado about English Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language publisher Lexicology year 2006 location pages 56 url http books.google.com books?id zb ISQHfz70C&pg PA56&dq 22Laws of infernal dynamics 22 wiki PPA56,M1 doi isbn 1857883721 Category Adages es Leyes de la din mica infernal ... more details
Copy to Wikiquote Segal s law is an adage that states A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. ref cite book title Murphy s Law first Arthur last Bloch year 2003 publisher Perigee isbn 0399529306 page 36 ref It refers to the potential pitfalls of having too much conflicting information when making a decision. References references External links cite book title Forensic Discovery publisher Addison Wesley first Dan last Farmer coauthor Wietse Venema chapter 2 url http www.porcupine.org forensics forensic discovery chapter2.html isbn 978 0201634976 Category Adages philosophy stub ... more details
McGarryBowen is an advertising agency founded in 2002. Up until 2008 it was ranked as the largest independent advertising agency in New York and 11th in the U.S. as ranked by http www.primaonline.it allegati file15957230430981.pdf AdAge 2005 . McGarryBowen was founded by John McGarry advertising John McGarry , former President of Young & Rubicam and who, up until 2008 held roughly 90 of the company, Stewart Owen , former Chief Strategic Officer of Young & Rubicam , and Gordon Bowen , a former Executive Creative Director at Young & Rubicam and Ogilvy & Mather . McGarryBowen has offices in New York and Chicago opened Dec 2007 . McGarryBowen s clients include Marriott International , J. P. Morgan , Hewlett Packard , Chevron Corporation Chevron , Crayola , Kraft Foods , Chase bank Chase , The Wall Street Journal , Disney , Inbev , Century 21 , Verizon Wireless , Burger King , Sears and Learning Leaders . Following both agencies acquisition by Dentsu , McGarryBowen became a sibling agency to 360i . ref name dentsu acquisition cite web url http www.dentsu.com news 2008 20081001112.html title Dentsu Holdings USA, Inc. to Acquire McGarry Bowen, LLC of the United States work Dentsu date 2008 10 01 accessdate 2010 05 24 ref ref name adage dentsu cite web last Patel first Kunur url http adage.com digital article?article id 141743 title Dentsu Acquires 360i, Taking a Big Digital Shop off the Table work Advertising Age date 2010 01 25 accessdate 2010 05 24 ref McGarryBowen was named as Advertising Age s Agency of the Year for 2009. ref name adage mcgarrybowen cite web last Parekh first Rupal url http adage.com agencya list09 article?article id 141664 title McGarryBowen Is Ad Age s Agency of the Year work Advertising Age date 2010 01 25 accessdate 2010 12 02 ref McGarryBowen is No. 2 on Advertising Age s Agency A List for 2010. ref name adage mcgarrybowen 2010 cite web last Creamer first Matthew url http adage.com agencya list article?article id 148361 title McGarryBowen Is No. 2 ... more details
Pacem may refer to Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as, If you wish for peace, prepare for war . Dona nobis pacem is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the Roman Catholic mass Dona nobis pacem Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936. Pacem in Terris was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963. The Pacem in Terris Award has been awarded annually since 1964. The association of Catholic Clergy Pacem in Terris was a regime sponsored organisation of Catholic clergy in the communist Czechoslovakia between 1971 and 1989. Pacem is a planet serving as the base of the Catholic Church in the science fiction series Hyperion Cantos . Pacem, the 16th century European name for Pasai , a place in Sumatra disambiguation ... more details
Sanderson s Second Law is the second Adage law developed by epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson for use in designing settings for Genre fiction genre writers . Sanderson s Second Law Limits Powers ref name SFL cite web url http brandonsanderson.com article 100 Sandersons Second Law title Sanderson s Second Law author Sanderson, Brandon accessdate 17 January 2012 ref In explaining this law, Brandon references the magic system of Superman, claiming that Superman s powers aren t what make him interesting, but his limits, specifically his vulnerability to kryptonite and the code of ethics he received from his parents. References Reflist Category Fantasy ... more details
Cleanup link rot date December 2011 The best defense is a good offense is an adage that has been applied to many fields of endeavor, including games and military combat. Generally the idea is that offensive action preoccupies the opposition and ultimately its ability to directly harm. Military Mao Zedong opined that the only real defense is active defense , meaning defense for the purpose of counter attacking and taking the offensive. ref http inthenationalinterest.com Articles June 202005 June2005Holmes.html ref Often success rests on destroying the enemy s ability to attack. In reference to fighting terrorists, Matthew Levitt opines, It s important to pre emptive strike pre emptively strike at those who intend to do us harm. ref http www.voanews.com english archive 2003 06 a 2003 06 13 47 1.cfm dead link date February 2012 ref The principle is echoed in the writings of Machiavelli and Sun Tzu . ref http media.www.dailylobo.com media storage paper344 news 2001 10 17 Opinion Column.Best.Defense.Is.A.Good.Offense 127063.shtml dead link date February 2012 ref Some martial arts emphasise attack over defence. Wing Chun , for example, is a style of Kung Fu which uses the maxim The hand which strikes also blocks. Games In some board game s, such as Risk game Risk , one s ability to build up armies depends on aggressively attacking so as to acquire territory however, in Risk game Risk , luck in rolling the dice is the ultimate determining factor. Players who fail to do so, and concentrate instead on holding the line against enemy attack, will likely end up in a weak position. Indepthinfo argues that this adage does not always apply When the battle rages between two players one should ... own attacks thus, common tips used in conjunction with this adage are that the best way to upset ... 2824422.shtml ref the adage is used to note that success can hinge on an effective offense that keeps ... the opposing team from scoring. Business The adage has also been applied in the intellectual ... more details
For the record label Wooden Nickel Records ref improve date December 2011 Image 1938WoodenNickelNorthwestTerritory150thCelebration.jpg thumb 300px right Wooden Nickel from the 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Northwest Territory , 1938, Marietta, Ohio A wooden nickel , in the United States , is a wood token coin , which are usually issued by a merchant or bank as a promotion, sometimes redeemable for a specific item such as a drink. Wooden Nickel United States coin nickel s were most commonly issued in the U.S. in the 1930s, after the Great Depression . It was during this decade that some banks and chambers of commerce in the United States issued wooden nickels with expiration dates to mitigate difficulties faced by merchants in making change at times of instability. Common views published on the Internet concerning the origin of the wooden nickel are patently incomplete, often making it an innovation of this late date that arose in response to such banking difficulties. Commemorative nickels are then supposed to be an outgrowth of these legitimate wooden nickels. However, collectible wooden nickels have been mentioned in print since at least 1888. ref http books.google.com books?vid 0NPWwXdtr2GkQKzsu5&id P oMAAAAIAAJ&q 22wooden nickels 22 date 0 1940&dq 22wooden nickels 22 date 0 1940&pgis 1 The Numismatist ref In more recent times wooden nickel trading has become more popular. Individuals can have their own personalized token made and then trade with others who also have had their own made. This is especially popular in geocaching . In popular culture An American adage , Don t take any wooden nickels is considered a lighthearted reminder to be cautious in one s dealings. This adage, too, precedes the use of wooden nickels as a replacement currency, suggesting that its origins lie not in the genuine monetary value of nickels but rather in their purely commemorative nature. However, such an interpretation should not be altogether ignored gold backed currency was ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Matthew Creamer is an award winning United States American reporter and an Editor at Large at Advertising Age magazine . He writes about marketing , advertising , Mass media media , and pop culture . Career Creamer is currently Editor at Large at AdAge magazine. He previously worked as an associate editor at PRWeek magazine, where he covered media. Before that, Creamer wrote about environmental issues for Alabama s Anniston Star . He has also written for the New York Daily News and the New York Observer and frequently provides analysis to major news outlets such as NBC , American Broadcasting Company ABC , NPR , and CNBC , daily newspapers , and wire services . Creamer also writes a http www.mattcreamer.com blog about online media. Awards In 2006, Creamer was awarded two major business journalism awards A Neal Award in the category of http www.americanbusinessmedia.com abm NewsBot.asp?MODE VIEW&ID 210&SnID 4 best news coverage for his writing about the trial of two advertising executives that defrauded the U.S. government s anti drug ad campaign, and a http www.sabew.org contest 2006 BreakingNewsWinners.htm breaking news award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers SABEW for his story about the high profile departure of two Wal Mart executives. External links Matthew Creamer s http www.mattcreamer.com website and blog Matt Creamer s http adage.com results?search offset 0&search order by score&search lefta.x 0&search lefta.y 0&search phrase matthew creamer articles on AdAge Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Creamer, Matthew ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Creamer, Matthew Category Living people US journalist stub ... more details
Sturgeon s revelation , commonly referred to as Sturgeon s law , is an adage commonly cited as ninety percent of everything is crud or ninety percent of everything is crap . It is derived from quotations by Theodore Sturgeon , an American science fiction author while Sturgeon coined another adage that he termed Sturgeon s law , it is his revelation that is usually referred to by that term. The phrase was derived from Sturgeon s observation that while science fiction was often derided for its low quality by critics, it could be noted that the majority of examples of works in other fields could equally be seen to be of low quality and that science fiction was thus no different in that regard to other art. History The first written reference to the adage appears in the March 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction Magazine Venture , where Sturgeon wrote quote I repeat Sturgeon s Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud. ref name venture Using the same standards that categorize 90 of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90 of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. are crap. In other words, the claim or fact that 90 of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other artforms. According to Philip Klass William Tenn , Sturgeon made this remark in about 1951, at a talk at New York University at which Tenn was present. ref cite web url http www.jessesword.com sf view 328 title & 39 SF Citations for OED & 39 publisher Jessesword.com date 2008 07 06 accessdate 2010 02 06 ref The statement was subsequently included in a talk Sturgeon gave at a session of the World Science Fiction Convention ... 1956 ref The second adage, variously rendered as ninety percent of everything is crud or ninety ... more details
A gnome Ancient Greek Greek gnome , from gignoskein to know is a type of saying , especially an aphorism or a Maxim saying maxim designed to provide Education instruction in a compact form. The term gnome was introduced by Klaus Berger in the Formgeschichte des Neuen Testaments . He used this traditional term from the antique rhetoric and attempted to identify this rhetoric method in the New Testament. ref Berger, K. 1984 Formgeschichte des Neuen Testaments Heidelberg Quelle & Meyer . 1987 Einf hrung in die Formgeschichte UTB, 144 T bingen Franke . ref References reflist See also Col begin Col break Adage Analogy Aphorism Epigram Col break Epitome Gnomon Maxim saying Metaphor Col break Parable Proverb Saying Simile Col end DEFAULTSORT Gnome Rhetoric Category Rhetoric de Gnome Dichtung nl Gnome stijlfiguur no Gnome fyndord pl Gnoma ru uk ... more details
Sangam literature Pazhamozhi Nanuru is a Tamil language Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Pathinenkilkanakku anthology of Tamil literature . This belongs to the post Sangam period Sangam period corresponding to between 100 500 CE. Pazhamozhi Nanuru contains 400 poems written by the poet Munrurai Araiyanaar, a Jain . The poems of Pazhamozhi Nanuru are written in the Venpa meter. Pazhamozhi Nanuru employs old Tamil proverb s to illustrate its messages. The following poem uses the adage that it is impossible to straighten the tail of a dog, as it impossible to control the unchaste mind of a girl by throwing her in prison. br br br . References Mudaliyar, Singaravelu A., Apithana Cintamani, An encyclopaedia of Tamil Literature, 1931 Reprinted by Asian Educational Services, New Delhi 1983 http www.tamilnation.org literature http www.tamilnation.org literature pathinen pm0036.pdf Pazhamozhi Nanuru eText at Project madurai DEFAULTSORT Palamoli Nanuru Category Sangam literature India lit stub ta ... more details
EAFP may refer to European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy European Association of Fish Pathologists the adage that it is Easier to Ask Forgiveness than it is to get Permission , ref http docs.python.org glossary.html term eafp EAFP , Python Glossary ref attributed to Grace Hopper Anecdotes Grace Hopper ref Python in a nutshell, Alex Martelli , http books.google.com books?id JnR9hQA3SncC&pg PA134 p. 134 ref ref cite web archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20090114165606 http www.chips.navy.mil archives 86 jul interview.html archivedate January 14, 2009 url http www.chips.navy.mil archives 86 jul interview.html title Only the Limits of Our Imagination An exclusive interview with RADM Grace M. Hopper publisher Department of the Navy Information Technology Magazine first Diane last Hamblen accessdate 2007 01 31 ref and influential in the Python syntax and semantics semantics of the Python programming language References reflist disambig ... more details
wiktionarypar incompetence competence incompetent Incompetence is the inability to perform lack of competence disambiguation competence ineptitude. Administrative incompetence , dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals Incompetence book Incompetence book , a novel by Red Dwarf co creator Rob Grant Military incompetence , failures of members of the military cognitive dysfunction Incompetent person legal , person not of sound mind or mentally impaired, unable to make decision for himself or herself See also Examples of Administrative Incompetence, Northern Victorian Irrigation Renewal Project also Goulburn Murray Water see Ombudsman report into NVIRP Darwin Awards , a tongue in cheek award given to people whose incompetence results in their deaths or in some cases, loss of ability to reproduce. Hanlon s razor , an adage Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Peter principle , tendency for a person to rise to his or her level of incompetence Dunning Kruger effect , the tendency for incompetent people to grossly overestimate their skills disambig ... more details
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