[Fwd: [Fwd: (Fwd) New Words for the 90's]]

Found this in my mail today.  Some could be moto-related, like
ohnosecond and "percussive mantainance", or ride related, like "yuppie
food stamps", and generica.

> 
> New Words for the 90s
> 
>  Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was
>  missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
> 
>  Chainsaw Consultant: An outside expert brought into reduce the
>  employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
> 
>  Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.
> 
>  Ego Surfing: Scanning the Net, databases, print media and so on,
>  looking for references to one's own name.
> 
>  Elvis Year: The peak year of something's or someone's popularity.
>  "Barney the Dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993."
> 
>  404: Someone who's clueless. "Don't bother asking him; he's 404."
>  From the WWW error message "404 Not Found," meaning
> the requested document couldn't be located.
> 
>  Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators
>  running.
> 
> Keyboard Plaque: The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on
> computer keyboards.
> 
>  Mouse Potato: The online, wired generation's answer to the couch
>  potato.
> 
>  Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
>  you've just made a big mistake.
> 
>  Perot: To quit unexpectedly, as in "My cellular phone just perot'ed."
> 
>  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.
> 
>  SITCOMs: What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of
>  them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for Single Income,
>  Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
> 
>  Squirt the Bird: To transmit a signal to a satellite.
> 
>  Starter Marriage: A short-lived first marriage that ends in a
> divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
> 
>  Stress Puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
>  whiny.
> 
>  Swiped Out: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
> because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
> 
> Tourists: People who take training classes just to get a vacation
> from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the
> rest were just tourists."
> 
>  Treeware: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
> 
>  Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
>  workplace.
> 
>  Going Postal: Euphemism for being totally stressed out, for losing
>  it.  Makes reference to the unfortunate track record of postal employees
> who have snapped and gone on shooting rampages.
> 
>  Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in
>  an office or work group. "Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek around here."
> 
> Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success
> and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
> 
> Beepilepsy - The brief seizure people sometimes have when their
> beeper goes off (especially in vibrator mode). Characterized by
> physical spasms, goofy facial expressions and interruption of speech
> in mid-sentence.
> 
> Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa =software. "Well, first we
>  gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."
> 
>  Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just
>  wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
> 
>  Dancing Baloney - Little animated GIFs and other Web F/X that are
>  useless and serve simply to impress clients. "This page is kinda dull. Maybe
>  a little dancing baloney will help."
> 
>  Depotphobia - Fear associated with entering a Home Depot because of
>  how much money one might spend. Electronics geeks experience
>  Shackophobia.
> 
>  Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of
>  planning to leave a company or department soon.
> 
>  Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
>  same no matter where one is. "We were so lost in generica, I actually
>  forgot what city we were in."
> 
>  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.
> 
>  Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles
> that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching
> them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
> 
>  Midair Passenger Exchange - Grim air-traffic-controller-speak for a
>  head-on collision. Midair passenger exchanges are quickly followed by
>  "aluminum rain."
> 
>  Nyetscape - Nickname for AOL's less-than-full-featured Web
> browser.
> 
>  PEBCAK - Tech support shorthand for "Problem Exists
> Between Chair and Keyboard." (Techies are a frustrated, often arrogant
> lot. They've submitted numerous acronyms and terms that poke fun at the
> clueless users who call them up with frighteningly stupid questions.
> Another variation on the above is ID10T: "This guy has an ID-Ten-T
> on his system.")
> 
>  Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking
> the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
> 
> 
> Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
> over everything and then leaves.
> 
> Square-headed Girlfriend - Another word for a computer. The victim of
> a square-headed girlfriend is a "computer widow."
> 
>  Telephone Number Salary - A salary (or project budget) that has seven
>  digits.
> 
>  Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing. "This is uh..Dale,
> my...um...friend..."
> 
>  Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired.
> Heard on the voicemail of a vice president at a downsizing computer
> firm: "You have reached the number of an uninstalled vice president.
> Please dial our main number and ask the operator for assistance."
> See also Decruitment.
> 
>  Vulcan Nerve Pinch - The taxing hand position required to reach all
>  of the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm
>  re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control
>  key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.
> 
>  Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs
>  everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal:
>  "We all owe $8 each, but all anybody's got is yuppie food stamps."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---End of forwarded mail from Alice Mullowney <nzhyybja@ooa.pbz>

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