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NEW WORDS FOR 2003
Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success
and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending entire day swimming upstream
only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

6. 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.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.

8. 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.

9. STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce
with no kids, no property and no regrets.

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

11. SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

12. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
workplace.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the hell out of
an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. 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.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
"404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be
located."

16. GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls,
subdivisions.

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you've just made a BIG mistake.

18. WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks

Another source:

The Washington Po!st's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word
from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one
letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners:

1) Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.

2) Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

4) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.

5) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

6) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

7) Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (this one got extra credit)

8) Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending of all these really
bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a
serious bummer.

9) Glibido: All talk and no action.

10) Dopeler effect: The! tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.

And, the pick of the literature:

11) Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

:: Bing Friday, February 21, 2003 [+] ::
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