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New words added to the 2004 dictionary

  • 14-01-2004 3:23pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭


    Got this from my dad through email. Some are a bit yank (or ****) but still good nonetheless [:)]


    New words added to the 2K4 version of the Dictionary

    1. Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.

    2. Blamestorming - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

    3. Seagull Manager - A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves.

    4. Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

    5. 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.

    6. Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.

    7. Career Limiting Move (CLM) - Used among microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.

    8. 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.

    9. Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.

    10. 404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404-URL Not Found," meaning that the requested web page could not be located. Used as in: "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man."

    11. Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. Used as in: "We were so lost in Generica that I forgot what city we were in."

    12. Ohno-Second - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

    13. Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

    14. Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dylan, my...um...friend."

    15. Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weightlifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.

    16. Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.

    17. Idea Hamsters - People who always seem to have their idea generators running.

    18. Mouse Potato - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

    19. 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.

    20. SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for "Single Income, Two Children, and Oppressive Mortgage".

    21. Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.

    22. Stress Puppy - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

    23. Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

    24. Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.

    25. G.O.O.D. Job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.

    26. Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal: "We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps."


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  • Registered Users Posts: 354 ✭✭Commissar


    Originally posted by SpankyFart
    3. Seagull Manager - A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves.

    6. Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.

    8. 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.

    13. Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

    19. 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.

    Excellent. I'll have to remember these.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭Beëlzebooze



    19. 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.

    I thought this is when you need a dump so bad, that the turd keeps poking it's head out before you squeeze it back in....

    i.e. "sjeesh, I need to go like NOW man, I'm like, prairie dogging dude"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭Agent7249


    Originally posted by Beëlzebooze
    I thought this is when you need a dump so bad, that the turd keeps poking it's head out before you squeeze it back in....

    i.e. "sjeesh, I need to go like NOW man, I'm like, prairie dogging dude"

    lol :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭The_Bullman


    I believe that's called a turtles head ... or also you could use the expression "touching cloth" :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭hedgetrimmer


    Excellent phrases, though I am a tad disturbed by the addition of "touching cloth". Ick.:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 921 ✭✭✭Shaque attack


    Originally posted by SpankyFart


    3. Seagull Manager - A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves.


    rofl. class:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    there all class:D :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭Töpher


    All fúcking genius! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭quank


    lol
    that seagull manager is best :D


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