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Erlkönig: words-for-2001.shtml> NEW WORDS FOR 2001 > > * 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. > * 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. > * SWIPED OUT: 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. > * ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success > and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. > * 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 shameful video Grand Jury testimony is > another. > * PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck 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, the arm reboot > for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control Key, > the Command Key, the Return Key, and the Power On key. > * YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS: The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs > everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal, "We > each owe $8, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps." > * SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming > upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. > * 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." > * GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the > same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, > subdivisions. > * OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize > that you've just made a BIG mistake. |