New Words for 2007
> >> New Words for 2007
> >>
> >> * SALAD DODGER.
> >> An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
> >>
> >> * SWAMP-DONKEY
> >> A deeply unattractive person.
> >>
> >> * TESTICULATING.
> >> Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
> >>
> >> * BLAMESTORMING.
> >> Sitting round 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 what'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.
> >>
> >> * AEROPLANE BLONDE.
> >> One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
> >>
> >> * 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.
> >>
> >> * GOING FOR A Mc****.
> >> 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 Mc**** with Lies.
> >>
> >> * 404.
> >> Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404
> >> Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.
> >>
> >> * OH - NO SECOND.
> >> That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just
> >> Made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
> >>
> >> * 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.
> >>
> >> * 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.
> >>
> >> * BEER COAT.
> >> The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze
> >> cruise At 3:00am.
> >>
> >> * 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.
> >>
> >> * TART FUEL.
> >> Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
> >>
> >> * PICASSO BUM.
> >> A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's
> >> Got
> > 4
> >> buttocks.
> >>
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