New Words For 2001
 

BLAME STORMING: 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.


404: Someone who's clue less. 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.


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LOL....blakkfrogg

I don't claim to have come up with these, you know. People send them to me and I feel it is my duty as a loyal memebr of the Go Fuck Yourself Posse to share these little gems with my brethren and sisteren(?). Heh-heh-heh.... Yep. I made that word up.

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Hmmmmmmmmm sisteren is AWFULLY close to cistern and we don't run around collecting rainwater to do you men's stoopid washin no mo!! We send it out! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif

LOL.

There needs to be a word for when you go to a submit page, use your mouse wheel to scroll down to the submit form and you get "stuck" in a god damn little scrollable window that has either the link back code or something. So the page itself stops scrolling and you just scroll that link txt window until you move the cursor out of it.

OK this is one Mrs Lightning and I use,
"Shmegi" pronounced "shme gee"
Used when referring to a tiny bit more, or less. like when you making a table for pics or something and it needs to be just a TINY bit more or less.
Example, "That looks great baby, but it could be just a "Shemgi" smaller.. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

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Smile and Be Happy

http://www.lightningfree.com

[This message has been edited by Lightning (edited 02-15-2001).]

KEYSTROKER:

That annoying person that always insists on showing you the latest and greatest keyboard or software shortcut they discovered when when they were systematically going through all the possible keystroke combinations because they were bored and had nothing to do on a Friday night.

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D*mn Blakkfrogg! Tell em about masturbation!

fucking funny shit, I like

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[email protected] Nightlizard, peace out

GFY-er: A group of adult webmasters talking
about nothing, doing nothing and making
lotsa money.
They seem to be wearing a black teeshirt
and/or sweater all the time.

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Life's a bitch
DialersRcool

MOMO-

how could you forget momo?

=)



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http://www.plrradio.com

momo is a very expensive steering wheel

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I like the MOUSE POTATOE one! LOL

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