Off topic: Enlarge your English vocabulary... Thread poster: Ann Bishop (X)
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Ann Bishop (X) 
United States
Local time: 16:04
Dutch to English
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I thought some of these were really funny...I wonder if we will ever use them...
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.
ASSM... See more I thought some of these were really funny...I wonder if we will ever use them...
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.
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.
SITCOM: 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.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPEOUT: 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.
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.
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.
WOOFY(S): Well Off Older Folks.
Have a great day.
--Ann
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| | | | Bruce Popp
United States
Local time: 13:04
French to English
Mushroom management: keep them in the dark and pile on the bullshit
| | | | Amy Taylor
United States
Local time: 14:04
Italian to English
| Winners from the Washington Post's Style Invitational | Apr 29, 2003 |
Just a few gems from this contest, which asks contributors to alter a word from the dictionary by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and then to write the new definition.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
... See more Just a few gems from this contest, which asks contributors to alter a word from the dictionary by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and then to write the new definition.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Giraffiti: Vandalism painted very, very high.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who
doesn\'t get it.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Karmageddon: It\'s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad
vibes, right? And! then, like, the Earth explodes and it\'s like, a serious
bummer.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Dopeer Effect: The tendency for stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come
at you rapidly.
And, the winner of the Washington Post\'s Style Invitational:
Ignoranus: A person who\'s both stupid and an asshole.
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On 2003-03-19 22:07, asmulders wrote:
I thought some of these were really funny...I wonder if we will ever use them...
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SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
everything, and then leaves.
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This one was published in a word for word Dutch Translation just in the week that I had experienced Seagull Management. It spoils my fun on the waterfront.
Leo
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| Those are great!! | May 12, 2003 |
I\'m sure you\'ve all already heard of this site, but for the benefit of those who don\'t please refer to the Word Spy: www.wordspy.com
Ciao!
Katy
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