Caution: this post contains ESSA*

* Extremely Sexy Selleck Audio

So it took a few weeks, but apparently "Brokeback Mountain" is now the default office synonym for anything remotely gay or less than hyper-masculine. Today at work I learned a new term: A "Brokeback Moment." This is defined as that awkward moment when two presumably straight guys look into each other's eyes and feel something...more...than...typical...manly...camaraderie.

For instance:

"Jed and I reached into the Doritios bag at the same time, and when our hands touched, we sort of had a Brokeback Moment there..."

So nobody got the Selleckdat challenge. Maybe my hint threw you off the trail. The answers we were looking for were (ESSA alert): "Gonads" and "Penis". Tough break. Joe is correct on the Labutedat. Can't award any points yet in NBDLdat, but we should have definitive word in the next few days.

I am constantly tormented by the quotation mark/period dilemma when the thing in the quotation marks is a name and not a quote. Does the period go inside or out? I read somewhere once that it should ALWAYS go inside the quotes. But that don't feel right to me. I'm going with my gut on this one. Period outside the quotes in certain cases.

You know what I always enjoy? When people talk in the jargon that is particular to their area of expertise, but they do it not just when communicating with others in their field but also among laypeople, assuming we all speak the same language. A friend recently forwarded me an email which went around his office to a large group of people in many different departments, with one tech-dude finally capping things off with this beauty:

Don said we can borrow one of the TIF or COORD lines from CER since there is no SMT scheduled.

OK, pal. That's a 10-4.

Hell, we'll give five points for every one of those acronyms you can decipher. For each one, if nobody gets it, points will go to the most ridiculous suggestion.