Crap 'Buzzwords'

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SCS in reply to @user16171

I was just asked by a client to "explain it in lemons terms"

There is a method of avalanche risk assessment where dangerous snowpack characteristics are referred to as lemons. The more lemons you have, the more dangerous the snowpack. You weren't discussing snow were you?!

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Murphy's_Law in reply to @SCS

There is a method of avalanche risk assessment where dangerous snowpack characteristics are referred to as lemons. The more lemons you have, the more dangerous the snowpack.

... But why?

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rive_gauche in reply to @Murphy's_Law

because oranges are not the only fruit
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SCS in reply to @Murphy's_Law

The guy who proposed the method called them lemons and the name stuck. Things have to be catchy and memorable to work because not many people go out skiing with a book to refer to so it's as good a name as any!

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