New Words for 2005
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 all over everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing the boss's butt rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
GENERICA:
Features of the North American landscape that is exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
404:
Someone who's clueless. >From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" (meaning that the requested document, like the person's brain, could not be located).
MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
WOOFYS:
Well Off Older Folks
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.
CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitious flatulence while passing thru a cube farm, or any other public place, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (this often leads to prairie dogging).
Gbradley says - See also: Sniglets
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 all over everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing the boss's butt rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
GENERICA:
Features of the North American landscape that is exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
404:
Someone who's clueless. >From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" (meaning that the requested document, like the person's brain, could not be located).
MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
WOOFYS:
Well Off Older Folks
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.
CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitious flatulence while passing thru a cube farm, or any other public place, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (this often leads to prairie dogging).
Gbradley says - See also: Sniglets
posted by Aaron at 10:10 PM
5 Comments:
If I had been drinking milk, no doubt it would have shot out my nose.
Thanks for the post. It was halarious.
We aim to please!
Can we use them in 2006? Will we consider them last years model? or will they still hold up?
These sound like classics to me so they should hold up until the technology changes....
Classics, indeed. I first saw them in 2000.
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