In Toronto we don't have to worry about "brainstorming," with the operative being brain, occurring at Toronto Silly Hall.
Bye bye brainstorming
Jul 27th, 2008 by Backseat Blogger
I just came across this the other day.
I just have to shake my head. The inmates are clearly in charge of the asylum.
Brainstorming has undoubtedly generated some bolts of brilliance and flashes of inspiration over the years.
But in genteel Tunbridge Wells, the council decided it might lead to the traditionally Disgusted residents of the town becoming Offended as well.
So now the expression brainstorming has been banned. And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as ‘thought showers’.
Brainstorming, first coined in the 1890s, was used by psychiatrists to refer to severe nervous attacks. And although since the 1940s it has meant a meeting to produce new ideas, councillors are concerned it may prove offensive to epileptics.
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