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New Words for 2007
* SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person.
* TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms around and talking bollox.
* 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, $$$$s on everything and
then
leaves.
* ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by
sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
* SALMON DAY.
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die.
* SALAD DODGER.
An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
* CUBE FARM.
An office filled with cubicles.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING.
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and
people's
heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also
applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
* SITCOMs.
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn
into
when they have children and one of them stops working to stay homewith
the
kids or start a "home business".
* SINBAD.
Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.
* AEROPLANE BLONDE.
One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the $$$$ out of an electronic device to get
itto
work again.
* ADMINISPHERE.
The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and
file.
Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often
profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were
designed
to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" ?
needless paperwork and processes.
* GOING FOR A Mc$$$$.
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food,
you're
just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your
declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as
a
Mc$$$$ 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.
* 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 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.
* PICASSO BUM.
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's
got
four buttocks.
* TART FUEL.
Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
New Words for 2007
* SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person.
* TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms around and talking bollox.
* 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, $$$$s on everything and
then
leaves.
* ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by
sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
* SALMON DAY.
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die.
* SALAD DODGER.
An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
* CUBE FARM.
An office filled with cubicles.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING.
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and
people's
heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also
applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
* SITCOMs.
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn
into
when they have children and one of them stops working to stay homewith
the
kids or start a "home business".
* SINBAD.
Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.
* AEROPLANE BLONDE.
One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the $$$$ out of an electronic device to get
itto
work again.
* ADMINISPHERE.
The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and
file.
Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often
profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were
designed
to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" ?
needless paperwork and processes.
* GOING FOR A Mc$$$$.
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food,
you're
just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your
declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as
a
Mc$$$$ 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.
* 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 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.
* PICASSO BUM.
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's
got
four buttocks.
* TART FUEL.
Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
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