[lanse] Re: words for 2003
- From: "Chris W" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:11:45 +0100
MessageLike it! ;) Perhaps we could ad 'LAN Potato'?
Chris
Shameless plug ---> www.LAN-Speed.co.uk. Players coming in thick and fast -
don't be disappointed!
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From: list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jason Halls
Sent: 18 July 2002 17:09
To: 'list@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [lanse] words for 2003
NEW WORDS FOR 2003 -- Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending entire day swimming upstream only
to get screwed and die in the end.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies
turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home
with the kids.
STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with
no kids, no property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the
magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
workplace.
IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you
find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime
example. Bill Clinton's Grand Jury testimony is another.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the XXXX (crap) out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the
appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, for Windows it's Ctrl,
Alt, Delete simultaneously.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the
rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often
profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to
solve.
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 -
Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you've just made a BIG mistake
Regards
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