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title: "10 Body Parts With Only Three Letters: Rib"
description: Ice breakers are great for building rapport but be not glib nor rib your prospects excessively if you want to grow your sales.
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 Jun 13, 2025

# 10 Body Parts With Only Three Letters: Rib

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## Ribs are For Eating, Not For Growing Sales

Humor is like nitroglycerin: a little goes a long way and you better be a professional to use it.

The problem is, you and I are not professional comedians, we're in the profession of sales.

And our prospects are not coming to us for comedic relief.

They are coming to us so we can help them make the correct and best decision on how to spend their money with us (or with our competition.)

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## Funny / Hungry Salespeople Don't Make Quota

Your potential customers are looking for ideas, insight, and reassurance that they are making the right decision.

When you try to be funny, it's a distraction that shifts the prospect's focus away from their problem, which slows down the sale and we all know that...

## Time Kills Deals

Trying to be funny also takes energy and effot and can make you come across as being hungry.

That's why I wrote [this article that goes into depth as to why funny salespeople don't make quota](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/why-sales-humor-ruins-the-sale).

In the Make Every Sale program I have you focus on diagnosing the needs of your prospects.

When you focus on asking great questions and then listening to the answers, you'll find that sales are much easier to make.

It's part of the ABCDE Sales and Marketing Automation System™, which is covered in depth in the program.

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You'll be amazed at how easy it is to grow your sales and your income when you know your numbers and work your numbers.

So the next of the 10 well-known body parts (not slang) that have just three letters is:

1. [Click here for #1.](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-the-sales-fundamentals/)
2. [Click here for #2](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-ear).
3. [Click here for #3](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-leg).
4. [Click here for #4](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-arm).
5. [Click here for #5](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-jaw).
6. [Click here for #6](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-gum).
7. [Click here for #7.](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-toe)
8. [Click here for #8](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-lip).
9. [Click here for #9](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-hip).
10. Rib

What do you think? Can funny salespeople really make the sale? Let me know below.

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## [10 Body Parts With Only Three Letters: Gum](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-body-parts-with-only-three-letters-gum)

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