I promise to serve the people of …
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Blue?
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That I believe you dislike “blackboard” is entirely presumption on your part. I have no idea whether or not you do, nor whether your use of the word “chalkboard” was intended to be ironic, or provocative, or any other reason. My post was about the use of “chalkboard”, expressing my dislike of the term. I referenced my post to you as OP purely because I the thread title used the word.
Vinyls.
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Like, “like” … … like. 
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“Alright then” I can “most definitely” think of some. Actually these are three from the “git go.”
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Beamer
BM
Merc
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Scooby Do?
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Obviously
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I associate “It is what it is” with a negotiation between the smallish company I worked for (as general counsel) and Morgan Stanley, which was trying to purchase us. Although this was by no means a hostile transaction, we had our share of differences on terms. And any time Morgan Stanley wanted to halt discussion, one member of their team or another would say, “It is what it is.” Drove our guys crazy.
For anyone who cares, remarkably I survived the acquisition.
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“A table for 12 just walked in”
(and 7 minutes before closing service)
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Walking tables!
Front of house talk.
And speaking house facades! 
talk the talk, walk the walk
damage control
mitigating
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Just the drivers…(ducks 
)
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Storm due, so it has to be……
Braced.
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For what it’s worth I don’t see what’s wrong with calling it a chalkboard. It’s a board one draws on with chalk. Usually the board is green anyway, not black.
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Nothing wrong with the name per se, but what makes me react to it is that it was always called a blackboard, then the idiotically OTT PC brigade decided that the word ‘black’ has racially prejudicial overtones, and teachers in schools were forced to change what they called it.
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There was a drive at the workplace to remove “micro aggressions” (there’s a phrase I hate) from source code and code comments.
“Blacklist” and “whitelist” became “deny” and “allow”.
“Master” and “Slave” became “Primary” and “Secondary”.
“sanity check” became “consistency check”.
“hang” became “becomes non responsive”.
Anyway, let me tell you that the wheels fell of the bus and things crashed left right and centre. After all, we can label database roles as “primary” and “secondary” if we like but if MS SQL Server hard codes them as “master” and “slave” you are stuck. Same went for the documentation related to jumpers on hard disks. “Please place the jumper over the pins labelled Primary and leave Secondary open.” Customer response: “I don’t understand what to do. The device has no Primary or Secondary jumpers. It only has Master and Slave. Your documentation sucks!”
You muck with technical terminology at your peril basically.
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