New words for 2008
> New Words for 2008
>
> *SALAD DODGER.
> An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
> *SWAMP-DONKEY
> A deeply unattractive person.
> * 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 al so
> 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'.
>
> *<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> 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 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. 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.
>
> *AUSSIE KISS.
> Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
>
> *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').
> ;
> *GREYHOUND.
> A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
>
> *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 rest au rants 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.
>
> *TRAMP STAMP
> Tattoo on a female
> *PICASSO BUM.
> A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's
> got 4 buttocks
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