Double post because can't edit previous post and I'm sure you'll get a laugh out of this.
EDIT: Managed to delete it.

Excerpt from my book on supply chain management:

"A purchaser may use stroking techniques to improve relationships with the supplier."

"It is interesting that stroking techniques are more likely to be used when both parties are in accord, further strengthening and hardening the relationship, ..."

MRW my required reading for class slowly turns into a gay novel:



Stroking is an actually part of business terminology, google it.