The other day, I was helping one of the sales managers place a graphic in a Power Point presentation, 'cause that's just one of the services I provide here. He was waiting for my compatriot, the tech writer, to e-mail said graphic.

"I'll just walk over there and shag her," he said.

"Excuse me??? You mean, 'snag her,' right?"

"No, shag. It's a baseball term. You know, 'Go out to center field and I'll shag you a few balls.' "

"Have you ever seen any of the Austin Powers movies?"

(Obviously he hadn't.) I then explained, in the most delicate of terms, what 'shag' means in the current pop culture vernacular.

I think I may have saved him from a potential lawsuit down the road. And I get extra credit for not laughing at the phrase, "shagging a few balls."