Enrich your vocabulary

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Great new words - need to incorporate them into everyday life.

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.

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. 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.

WOOFYS:  Well Off Older Folks