Subject new phrases for your next meeting
TESTICULATING - Waving your arms around and talking b*lls.
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, shits on
everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS - The process by which people seem to absorb success and
advancement by sucking up/ass kissing 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 from a promotion because there may be cake.
MOUSE POTATO - The on-line, 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 or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
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.
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404
Not Found," meaning that the requested documen t could not be located.
OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')
New entries for the Oxford English Dictionary 2005
GOING FOR A McSHIT - Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention
of buying food, you're just going to the restroom. If challenged by a pimply
staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food
afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.
AEROPLANE BLONDE - One who has bleached/dyed her hair blonde but still has a
'black box'.
AUSSIE KISS - Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
BEER COAT - The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a
booze cruise at