New Words For 2003

Someone sent this to me:

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 an entire day
swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the
end.
 
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer
to the couch potato.
  
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.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the
crap out of an electronic device to get it to work
again.
 
GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are
exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast
food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
 
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.

Those are certainly accurate enough. Mouse Potato fits me, perfectly.

Somebody call Webster's, we need to get these in the dictionary!! Thanks for sharing, ygbsm!

Dan

My pleasure Dan!

Seagull manager really struck a chord for me.

Under Generica: what's a strip mall?

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.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">AKA... a train wreck or Saaby's toaster thread...

Well its a mens club.

Thanks, ygbsm. Some very apropos expressions!

Originally posted by Onyx:
Under Generica: what's a strip mall?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">A bad answer to real estate. It's a long, narrow single story building, divided into little stores, each roughly square shaped. Kinda like anywhere from four to twenty stores, each maybe twenty by thirty feet or so, glued together in a line. There's a sidewalk in front, often with an awning or roof over the walkway to keep the rain off, but each store has a door opening directly to the outside. This is unlike a "mall", where the whole damn thing is one big building, and the stores open to an indoor, climate controlled area.

Strip malls are way cheaper to build, much smaller, and pop up everywhere in the US, kinda like a teenager with acne. The stores in them come and go, as they lease, rather than own, the space.

If they actually were strip clubs, it would be way better!!!

If you already knew all this stuff, and were just pulling our chain, please keep it to yourself...it's been a long day.

Actually, that sounds like "normal" shops here (we don't call em malls, just shops). Indoor malls with the climate control bits are more the exception rather than the rule.

Man, this Mouse Potato has had many a Salmon Day.

How about...

URINATOR: A wall-hung urinal that splashes your own pee all over your shoes when flushed.

Aeropalmics (ayr o palm' iks) - n. The study of wind resistance conducted by holding a cupped hand out the car window.

I see this phenomenon quite often here in the northeast. I wonder how ubiquitous this practice is throughout this country and others....

Ed

Intaxication - n. Euphoria after receiving a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

This one almost always occurs to me every year around April.

Ed.

Originally posted by Aragorn:
Well its a mens club.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Since when?

These are greaet words. I will have to start using them!

Thanks

Al

Glad you liked them! Urinator and intaxication are priceless additions.

Originally posted by ygbsm:
Seagull manager really struck a chord for me.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Been there, had that done to me and I have the scars to prove it!!

Dan