Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 I am cleaning out my computer - files and emails - and came across this one from before I retired. Thought you all might enjoy some of these. Wordwatch 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 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 online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. 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. Stress puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed-out and whiney. Swipe-out: A credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for stealing free photocopies from the workplace. Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The OJ trials were a prime example. Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of beating the hell 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. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message " 404 Not Found, " meaning that the requested document could not be located. Generica: Features of the 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 realise that you've just made a BIG mistake. WOOFYs: Well-Off Older Folks. Crop dusting: Surreptitiously breaking wind while passing through a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to prairie-dogging. ____________________________________________________________ Business glossary EUPHEMISMS are an increasingly annoying feature of the business world's vocabulary. The following examples are extracted from " The Official Rules and Explanations - The Original Guide to Surviving the Electronic Age with Wit, Wisdom and Laughter " , compiled by Dickson. Developed After Years of Intensive Research: Discovered by accident Expedite: To confound confusion with emotion Forwarded For Your Consideration: You hold the bag for a while Give Us The Benefit Of Your Present Thinking: We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we've already decided to do In Conference: Nobody can find him/her Let's Get Together On This: I'm assuming you're as confused as I am Note And Initial: Let's spread the responsibility for this Under Active Consideration: We're looking in the files for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 HA HA!!!! LOVED THEM, MIKE! Thanks for sharing those, I shall pass them on. Hope you're having a great day! By the way, Who are you today?? TOHACABC aka-Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Who are you today?? ------------------ I'm not sure I follow your question about WHO I am today, but I can tell you WHAT I am: I am one more step removed from my past life. A lot of those emails that got deleted were being saved " just in case. " Deleting them may be nothing more than a symbolic gesture on my part, but I did it with a definite sense that that part of my life is behind me. There were more than a few that got my teeth clenched and BP spiked from just glancing at them. There was much there that needed to be deleted, and not just from my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 So WHOSE computer were you actually cleaning off, Mike??? Your's or Dar's??? And, are you and Dar woofys???? WOOFYs: Well-Off Older Folks. ducking and running from Mike's cyber womping!> ---------------- (1) I have decided that the www abreviation on the internet does not stand for world wide web - it stands for Wicked Witch of Wisconsin. (2) Yes. We most definitely are WOOFY's - WORN OUT Older Folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Well, Mike I would call you CCWOOF - Computer Cleaner Worn Out Older Folk, and I think I'll change me to CWOOFWAC (Cold Worn Out Older Folk With A Cold)! LOL! Love CWOOFWAC aka Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 OT - Business Humor I am cleaning out my computer - files and emails - and came across this one from before I retired. Thought you all might enjoy some of these. So WHOSE computer were you actually cleaning off, Mike??? Your's or Dar's??? And, are you and Dar woofys???? WOOFYs: Well-Off Older Folks. <ducking and running from Mike's cyber womping!> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 In a message dated 2/17/04 1:28:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, mike@... writes: << it stands for Wicked Witch of Wisconsin. >> Ah, ha, ah, ..........Mike really got you this time Bonnie! ROTFLMAO!!!!! Hugs, Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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