Some new suggested additions to the Oxford English Dictionary

[thatcrazycajun]

Forwarded to me by a co-worker and just too funny not to share, but not funny enough to spam friends with.

NEW WORK WORDS FOR 2008: Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)

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 an 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 get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
9. stress puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10. swipe-out: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because its magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11. Xerox subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
12. irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that you find annoying, yet are unable to stop watching them.
13. percussive maintenance: The fine art of whacking the crap 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. ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a big mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake)
16. WOOFs: Well-Off Older Folks.
17. crop dusting: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a cube farm.

Comments

Hi there!

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I hadn't commented to you in a while, but I felt I should tell you that I really appreciated this whole list. There is some use in every one of them.

By the way, I know you're in Georgia but not where in Georgia. Louie and I will be transferring planes in the Atlanta airport next February (Saturday the 7th, I believe) en route to our week-long vacation in the Bahamas. Would you and/or any other fan or filker friends want to come out to the airport and hang out with us for a while as we are between planes?

Nate

Re: Hi there!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

If I am still living in Atlanta by that point, I would love to come hang out with you guys. Songbird is still trying to get me to move in with her in Africa, about which I will keep all posted.

I currently live in midtown Atlanta, just off the I-75 exit for Northside Drive and a stone's throw from the IKEA store and the Georgia Dome. You're both more than welcome any time.

And thanks - I'm glad you liked the list. Wish I could say I came up with any of them...

Re: Hi there!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Songbird is still trying to get me to move in with her in Africa,

@.@ !!!!!

Dude, you be *careful* if you do that....

Re: Hi there!

[filkferengi]

Keep us posted on your layover; I'm about 12 miles from the airport & would love to come hang out with y'all. It's been far too long since the GaFilk y'all were here.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

These are great. (And not all of them are new. I've been using the term "percussive maintenence" for over 20 years). :)

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

stress puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

Hmm... I'd better go find a good picture to submit if they decide to add this one...

WOOFs: Well-Off Older Folks.

What DINKs become after retirement.

[ladybrigid.livejournal.com]

That is Funny! I am so swiping this! thanks for a good laugh!