Intimacy: Today, I was chosen by my coworkers to explain to my elderly...

By welly223 - 20/01/2011 06:01 - Canada

Today, I was chosen by my coworkers to explain to my elderly boss that ''tossing the salad'' isn't another expression for saying ''brainstorming''. She didn't believe me. Guess we will all keep ''tossing the salad'' for new ideas each afternoon. FML

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FYLDeep 25

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:17

Maybe she comes up with her best ideas when she's tossing the salad. Who are you to judge?

babyyappld 7

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:03

looks like you guys will just have to "toss the salad" on other ways to tell him

Comments

reganera 0

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:01

lol, how old is this person?

whoisthisgirl 4

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:52

:(... I hope not too old because I never even heard this phrase lol

Sparkadelic 4

Thursday 20 January 2011 13:06

Tossing the salad means licking ass.

tencentsakiss 19

Thursday 20 January 2011 13:11

11, I would recommend going to urbandictionary.com, but you really don't want to know, trust me.

tencentsakiss 19

Thursday 20 January 2011 13:13

Nevermind, 15 already got to it.

birdman19 0

Friday 21 January 2011 8:33

babyyappld 7

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:03

looks like you guys will just have to "toss the salad" on other ways to tell him

GiddyXD 0

Thursday 20 January 2011 13:59

her*?

MacNuggets 0

Thursday 20 January 2011 16:24

I don't get it ... lol what's toss the salad?

natas_fml 13

Thursday 20 January 2011 20:47

D'awwwwwh

13Lina97 0

Tuesday 19 April 2011 20:34

45 - It means licking ass.

660923 0

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:06

Yeah you should toss the salad until you find something else to call it.

burriedinskin 0

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:10

well that way you can say it all the time for fun and they won't think wrongly of it. it's nice to have a laph every once in awile

Monstee 2

Thursday 20 January 2011 13:00

*laugh

chrisx020296 0

Thursday 20 January 2011 21:12

laph = laff, hence the ph, noob

barbara_jude_wee_fml 0

Sunday 12 June 2011 15:34

you guys are both stupid... laugh**. dumb asses

Doortje 29

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:16

Maybe your next "toss the salad" meeting can be about how you all feel sexually harassed by her.

FYLDeep 25

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:17

Maybe she comes up with her best ideas when she's tossing the salad. Who are you to judge?

lovexbox 8

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:19

You made my day.

unfortunate_13 5

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:28

indeed, i wouldn't even point it out. way more fun if she doesn't know!

kayPandastyle 15

Thursday 20 January 2011 12:58

I totally agree I wouldn't have said shiz and had a lil laugh to myself. I don't think its a fml cus its funny and it is bettr that they don't understand ;p

catkat1988 17

Thursday 20 January 2011 13:04

Why not just toss the salad with her? Can't be that bad. I actually like that expression, I was getting tired of "brainstorming", anyway. Being from Denmark, "brainstorm" is one of those words we insisted on "borrowing" because we were too lazy to find an appropriate Danish translation, or because some business-person figured the English term sounded cooler or whatever, so the English term has become a part of the Danish language. It's a shame that "tossing the salad" doesn't translate that well into Danish, or I might just have found us the new, Danish term for brainstorming. :-)