think before you talk

I was involved with one of those water cooler type discussions over the storm and dang of the Iowa Caucases, and I realized how much my personal life and my work life can be different, cause I can say to almost any of my friends "Obama now has lots of shiny New Relationship Energy" and they'd know what I mean, but I strongly suspect that if I said that to my cow-orkers I'd get a reply of "Buh?". Not that I'm about to experiment and find out . . .