Martin Floyd Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 New Words for 2006 > >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 for 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". > >SINBAD. single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate. > >STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and >whiny. > >PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap 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 realize that >you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all') > >BEER COAT. The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a >booze cruise at 3am. > >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. > >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 naught in there worth >seeing. > >MONKEY BATH. A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: >"Oo!Oo!Oo! 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. > >PICASSO BUM. A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks >like she's got four buttocks > >SALAD DODGER. An excellent phrase for an overweight person > >SWAMP-DONKEY A deeply unattractive woman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 >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. Nuff said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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