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idiot board
noun
A board held off camera during a live television broadcast to prompt the presenter.
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Meanwhile, Ryan O'Neal distinguishes himself from the refined performances given by the rest of the A-list ensemble by delivering every one of Brig Gen James Gavin's lines as if he were reading it from an idiot board to an audience sitting on the other side of a canyon.
They held up an idiot board with his lines on and he said, "What's this movie called?" and they said, "Well, it's called Quatermass 2".
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A beefy cowboy type walked by and snorted, "What an idiot!" Mayor Rocky Anderson, former board member of the local American Civil Liberties Union, said responsible nonconformists are an asset to Salt Lake City.
Thank God the bloggers are here to call bullshit because the journalists, fearing their own looming unemployment, are jumping on board the idiot bandwagon.
He compared HP's board to "idiots" when they forced Mr Hurd out.
Mr. Ellison was already on record, in an e-mail to The New York Times, describing the Hurd firing as "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago".
Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, calls it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago".Who will follow the Hurd?HP's nightmare is that Mr Ellison's savage judgment will be proven right and that the board ditched Mr Hurd at the worst possible moment.
At the time Ellison, who is a friend of Hurd's, called the firing "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago".
According to The New York Times, Ellison chastised HP for firing Hurd last month, calling it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago".
Politicians may lean on the board to hire their idiot nephews, chase visions of national greatness or mop up the jobless masses.
You would have to leave an idiot's guide pinned to the board, explaining to her what it was.
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