Other Jobs admirers outside the Silicon Valley bubble drop in to deliver some bon mots.

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The first advert to appear was for prices of MoTs at a car garage.

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Les mots et les images qu'ils emploient peuvent donner une vision objective ou au contraire renforcer les lieux communs et la discrimination.

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There are a few more charecteristic Judge Holmes bon mots sprinkled throughout.

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We're drinking Chablis and dishing des bons mots to be absurd.

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Much of French humour is jeux des mots, untranslatable wordplays.

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Talleyrand's name, to admirers, was a byword for diplomatic prowess: a brilliant political mind, a negotiator of unsurpassed skill and a tireless worker for the interests of France not to overlook a fount of worldly bons mots.

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The mots all justes, the tone expertly calibrated between light and heavy, the emphases - "sir", "exactly" - beautifully judged, the timing of the pause between the two sentences and the elaborate punchline equal to a Les Dawson.

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One theory is that with revalidation - dubbed the doctor MOTs - just round the corner, problems that have been glossed over for a number of years are now being dealt with by medical directors who have become more active in reporting issues to the GMC.

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If you are a politician and are any kind of a wit at all - even half of one - you can expect to be lionised in the press by bored political correspondents who will guffaw at your bon mots because the rest of what passes for gaggery generally strikes a bum note.

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