I was impressed that our drill instructor stayed in there with us the entire time. It just didn’t seem to bother him at all which was what kept me from panicking.
My wife and I were in a fancy restaurant in Hamburg, Germany some years ago. I ordered Beef Tartar and I’ve forgotten what she ordered. When my tartar came it was not the raw ground beef with shallots that I expected. Instead it turned out to be just a grilled beef patty. So since that time I’ve just assumed that’s why we call grilled beef patties hamburgers.
The Graphics department I was referring to was attached to our county-wide parks system. They provided signage and labelling for various facilities in the parks such as picnic areas trailside museums and the zoo and its exhibits where I worked. I called them for some signage I needed a day or so after the name change and was surprised when they answered the phone with “Visual Communications” instead of the usual “Graphics”. After a minute or so of laughing on both sides of the conversation, we got down to business.
Sometime back in the seventies and 80s companies began renaming their departments. Back then the one I worked for changed the name of the Personnel department to Human Resources. As time went by they became more imaginative by renaming the Maintenance department Facilities Operations and then a little later the Graphics department became Visual Communications. What was so wrong with one word titles like Personnel, Maintenance and Graphics?
There will always be idiots, so we might as well settle in and enjoy the show.