I had a laugh when i read this in the paper.
NEW WORDS FOR 2007
Testiculating: Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
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 people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking 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.
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 that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)
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 or start a ``home business''.
Stress Puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
Percussive maintenance: The fine art of whacking the #$%^ out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Adminisphere: The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the ``adminisphere'' are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
This is often affiliated with the dreaded ``administrivia'' _ needless paperwork and processes.
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message ``404 Not Found''," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (eg you've hit `reply all')
Going For A McS#$T: Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McS#$t with Lies.
Beer Coat: The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3am.
BOBFOC: means Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch
Britney Spears: modern slang for `beers', eg ``couple of Britneys please''
Johnny-No-Stars: A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The `no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.
Monkey Bath: A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: ``Oo!Oo!Ho! Aa!Aa!Aa!''
Salad Dodger: An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
Tart Fuel: Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:12 am
