Metaphor alert.

From "Overheard in the Office":

Project Manager: He said this, and we thought he meant that, and he thought we were doing this, and they thought we were doing that, and they didn't tell us they wanted that so we did this...and it all got lost in the...in the...in the big washing machine of communication.

Developer: Or possibly the tumble drier of tautology.

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