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New words for 2006
> NEW WORDS FOR 2006: Essential vocabulary additions
> for the workplace
> (and elsewhere)
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1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group,
> discussing why a Deadline
> was missed or a project failed, and who was
> responsible.
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> 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
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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.
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> 7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's
> answer to the couch
> potato.
>
8. 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.
>
> 9. STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on
> being stressed out and
> whiny.
>
10. SWIPEOUT : An ATM or credit card that has been
> rendered useless
> because the 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 are Annoying
> but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
> The J-Lo and Ben
> wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael
> Jackson, another.
>
> 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. 404 : Someone who's clueless. From the World
> Wide Web error Message
> "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site
> could not be located.
>
> 16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape
> that are exactly the
> same no matter where one is, such as fast food
> joints, strip malls, and
> subdivisions.
>
> 17. 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)
>
> 18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.
>
19. CROP DUSTING : Surreptitiously passing gas while
> passing through a
> Cube Farm.
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MommyofG
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Re: New words for 2006
what happened to Jumpin on the couch? or was that a 2005 word?
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Re: New words for 2006
Posted by girlygrl33
what happened to Jumpin on the couch? or was that a 2005 word?
Is that a Tom Cruise thing?
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| Posted 1/27/06 2:18 PM |
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MommyofG
just the girls
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Janice
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Re: New words for 2006
Posted by missus-hbradio
Posted by girlygrl33
what happened to Jumpin on the couch? or was that a 2005 word?
Is that a Tom Cruise thing?
Yup- it was on CNBC as the new words used in slang too and that was 1 of them, not sure if its for 2005 or 06 though.
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| Posted 1/27/06 2:19 PM |
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Re: New words for 2006
Posted by girlygrl33
Posted by missus-hbradio
Posted by girlygrl33
what happened to Jumpin on the couch? or was that a 2005 word?
Is that a Tom Cruise thing?
Yup- it was on CNBC as the new words used in slang too and that was 1 of them, not sure if its for 2005 or 06 though.
Oh God!
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mrswask
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Michal
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Re: New words for 2006
These are hysterical!!
I totally have a seagull boss!
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