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    peat moss's Avatar Software Farmer BT Rep: +15BT Rep +15BT Rep +15
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    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 by 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.

    STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
    whiny.

    IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but
    you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nicole show or
    the Bachelor is 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, like the person's brain,
    could not be located.)

    GENERICA: Features of the North 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.

    CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing through a cube
    farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (leads to PRAIRIE
    DOGGING).

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    maebach's Avatar Team FST Captain
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    This makes me wanna think up of some words to add on the list.

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    Santa's Avatar dvhyt5er
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    some of those a sadly great

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    great stuff!

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    GOING FOR A McSH*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 McSh*t with Lies.

    ^A New York CLASSIC

    BEER COAT - The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a
    booze cruise at 3 in the morning.

    BEER COMPASS - The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home
    after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you
    live, how you got here, and where you've come from.

    BREAKING THE SEAL - Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of
    drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the
    toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the
    night.

    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.

    MILLENNIUM DOMES - The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely
    impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in
    there worth seeing.

    MONKEY BATH - A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go:
    "Oo! Oo! Ho! Aa! Aa! Aa!".

    MYSTERY BUS - The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while
    you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the
    unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when
    you come back in.

    MYSTERY TAXI - The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning
    before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves
    a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.

    SALAD DODGER - An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

    SWAMP-DONKEY - A deeply unattractive woman.
    Last edited by Wolfmight; 08-22-2005 at 04:35 AM.

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