I wasn't aware of this one, learned about it today, but it is hysterical. It's definition seems to be this:
Noun: **A meeting of more than two people.
Adjective: It refers to a particular set of properties in danger of being acquired by objects in virtue of being the focus of attention during one or more BOGSATs (noun usage).
The properties in question:
1. Undue ambiguity, vagueness, length, or complication of content. This is acquired by written projects, PowerPoint presentations (or low tech correlates), policies, projects, tasks or organizations:
Research shows that there is a direct proportionality between ambiguity, vagueness length, and complication of content and the size of teams involved in projects, while there is an inverse square proportionality of boldness of content to size of team...or so I am told.
So for example, a committee report that is late due to too many cooks being involved, is either in danger of, or in the process of acquiring this property of BOGSAT. Grammatically the acronym can function adjectivally, or as a verb, or as a noun.
Adjectival example: That report went seriously BOGSAT at about the fifth meeting.
Verbal use: We need to quash this report. Let's BOGSAT the thing.
Noun: **See above - And: That particular BOGSAT was a thing of bureaucratic beauty.
And what does the acronym actually abbreviate? The phrase 'Bunch of guys sitting around a table.'
Darth Vader was not one to countenance BOGSAT:
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