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CHOOSE FROM FIVE CATEGORIES
WORDS
PHRASES
TODAYS & CLASSIC QUOTES
REDUNDANCIES
OXYMORONS
WORDS
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Cheating
AGGRESSION ENHANCED: Mean
AKS:(pronounced Axe) Another way of pronouncing the word "ask". Aks me again and I'll tell you.
ALPHA GEEK:The most knowledgable,technically proficient person in the office or the work group.
"Ask Larry, He's the alpha geek around here!"
ALLEGED: a word used in nearly every sentence the news media issues these days to rationalize the content by protecting themselves.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
AST:(pronounced "assed") Yet another way of pronouncing the word ask.
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group,discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed,and who is responsible.
BODYNAZIS: Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down an anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.
"BY GUMBY!": "Thats the way it is , by Gumby!!!
If Gumby says it then (by God) it is true! (I heard this in a convenience store.)
CAKEHOLE: Your mouth. i.e. "Shut your cakehole!"
CHAIN SAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount,leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CHIPS AND SALSA: Chips-hardware; Salsa-software."Well,we first gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or in your salsa."
COMB-FREE: Bald
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
DANK,DIGGETY DANK: I don't have a definition for this one. If anyone does,let me know.
DIFFERENTLY ABLED,HANDI-CAPABLE: handicapped
DIGERATTI: the elite, expert, "know it alls" who have mastered the web.
DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILY: Broken home
DIS-IT, DIS-ME, etc.: Don't make fun of it or Don't make fun of me. Probably from the prefix "dis".
DOME: head. He hit his dome.
EBONICS:=Ebony + Phonics. Then it follows that French + Phonics = Escargonics?
ECONOMIC OPPRESSION ZONE: Slum
ECONOMICALLY UNPREPARED: Poor
EMERGING MAJORITIES: Minority groups growing so large as to constitute a majority.
ENERGETICALLY CHALLENGED: Lazy
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST: Tree hugger
ETHNICALLY HOMOGENOUS AREA: Ghetto
FEMINAZI: A feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur. Concieved principally for un-attractive women to "fit in". Now in Webster's Dictionary. Coined by Rush Limbaugh.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Stewardess
FLIGHT RISK:Used to describe employeeswho are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
GERONTOLOGICALLY ADVANCED: Old person
GOING POSTAL: Euphemism for being totally stressed.
GOOD JOB:A "Get-Out-of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
"HINEY" HOT SEAT, PORCELIN PRINCESS: A commode.
IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
INFOMERCIAL: A detailed explanation or sales pitch on T.V. typically lasting about 1/2 hr. The word was first coined as a result of H. Ross Perot's privately funded broadcast speaches in 1992.
IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable tostop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
LID: hat
MOUSE POTATOE: The online,wired generations's answer to the couch potatoe.
NAPPY: Bad, gross, disgusting, rude.
NONDISCRECTIONARY FRAGRANCE: Body odor
NUEVO YORK: New York City
OXYGEN EXCHANGE UNITS: Trees
PARKING ENFORCEMENT ADJUDICATOR: Meter maid
PATIENCE- CHALLENGED: Bitchy
PEOPLE OF MASS, GRAVITATIONALLY CHALLENGED: Obese
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
PESTRONIZE: Don't bug me any more. Born out of "like" for the individual being pestronized. Coined by a young lady I work with, Justen.
PHOTONICALLY NON-RECEPTIVE: Blind
PIE HOLE: see CAKE HOLE
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.
PRE-WOMYN: Girl
REVENUE ENHANCEMENTS: Taxes
RUSTICALLY INCLINED: White trash
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in,makes a lot of noise,craps over everything and then leaves.
SEASONED CITIZEN: Older person with vast experience.
SELECTIVELY PERCEPTIVE: Insane
SELF-PACED COGNITIVE ABILITY: Learning disability
SITCOM: What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stays home with the kids. Stands for Single Income, Two Children, Opressive Mortgage.
SOCIALLY SEPARATED: A convict
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: vs. sexual preference, a way of avoiding the possibility of choice.
SOCCER MOM: an SUV driving mom who thinks Bill Clinton has done more for her than her husband has. Likes his looks.
SPLAIN: Short for the word "explain". "Let me splain it to you."
SQUIRT THE BIRD: To transmit a signal to a satellite.
STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property, no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed-out and whiney.
SUV: an anacronym for sports utility vehicle. Currently captures a large part of the auto industry's sales and is growing in popularity. "Allegedly" burns too much fuel and gives "unfair" advantage to SUV drivers in accident situations.
SWIPED OUT: An ATM card or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
TESTICULAR FORTITUDE: Speaks for itself.
TOURISTS: People who just take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had 3 serious students in the class, the rest were "TOURISTS".
TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
UNFAIR: anything that the "rich" have that the "poor" don't.
A common liberal word.
UNINSTALLED: A Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voice mail of a vice president at a down-sizing computer firm. "You have reached the number of an un-installed vice president. Please dial the operator and ask fo assistance." See also Decruitment.
VERTICALLY CHALLENGED: A midget/dwarf
VIAGRA: The "pfizer riser"
VISUALLY ORIENTED: Blind
VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance,the warm reboot for Mac computer involves simultaneously pressing the control key, the Command key, the Return key, and the Power On Key.
WILDLIFE PRESERVATION CENTER: Zoo
WOMYN,WYMYN,WOPERSON: Women-notice the conspicuous absence of the "men" part of the word.
WOOD WEASEL,PAPER PIRATE,TREESLAYER: logger
WWJD: "What would Jesus do." Found on popular bracelets and jewelry.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from the workplace.
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS: The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs. Often used when trying to split the bill after the meal. "We owe $8.00 each, but all anybody's got is yuppie stamps."
PHRASES
BEEN THERE DONE THAT: I have had that experience and know the conditions and reprocussions because I have lived it. Just aks me, I know. (obnoxious)
DON'T GO THERE: Don't bring up that subject around me. Especially no
DON'T EVEN GO THERE: An emphasized verion of the former.
FROM THE GET GO: From the start. At the beginning. Ever since.
GET A LIFE: Get off what you are doing and join the real word. I have a disagreement with your way of thought.
GOOD TO GO: Everything is ready to proceed. All is done. Lets go!
I CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE: My way of thinking on that subject is completely opposite.
THE SHIP SANK. GET OVER IT!: In reference to any suggestion of the Titanic. (I'm tired of hearing about the Titanic.
YOU GO GIRL: Explative meaning good job, great going,keep on keepin on.
QUOTES
"I DON'T KNOW WHY EVERYBODY HAS TO TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME": From the movie "On Golden Pond". Norman Thayer Jr.(Henry Fonda). Translation: Why can't some things just be,without having to analyze and discuss?
I FEEL YOUR PAIN: Attributed to "der Schlickmeister", William Jefferson "Blythe" Clinton.
LA DI FRICKEN DA!!: Attributed to Chris Farley, SNL. In context, Your rich? well, la di fricken da.
YADA YADA YADA: And so on and so forth. On and on and on. Been there done that. SOSDD.
OXYMORONS
BAD S
BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY
BUTTHEAD
CIVIL WAR
CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS
CONSTANT CHANGE
DEATH BENEFITS
FRESH FROZEN
GREAT DEPRESSION
JUMBO SHRIMP
LYING ON THE STAND
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE>
PLASTIC GLASS
PRETTY UGLY
RAP MUSIC
SAME DIFFERENCE
STUDENT TEACHER
VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE
REDUNDANCIES
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