Behold... new entries for oxford dictionary!!!!
* BLAMESTORMING. Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or aProject failed and who was responsible.
* SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything andthen leaves.
* ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement bysucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
* SALMON DAY.The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to getscrewed and die.
* CUBE FARM.An office filled with cubicles.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING.When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, andpeople's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (Thisalso applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
* SITCOMs.Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turninto when they have children and one of them stops working to stayhome with the kids or start a "home business".
* SINBAD.Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate. * PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to getit to work again.
* ADMINISPHERE.The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank andfile. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundlyinappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed tosolve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" -needless paperwork and processes.
* GOING FOR A McSHIT.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 isknown as a McShit with Lies.
* 404.Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 NotFound" meaning that the requested document could not be located.
* OH-NO SECOND.That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've justmade a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
* JOHNNY-NO-STARS.A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent whoworks in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badgesdisplaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear toshow their level of training.
* MILLENNIUM DOMES.The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewedfrom the outside, but there's actually naught in there worth seeing.
* SALAD DODGER.A phrase for an overweight person.
* MONKEY BATH .A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo!Aa! Aa! Aa!".
* BEER COAT.The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a boozecruise at 3:00am.
* BEER COMPASS.The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after boozecruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, howyou got here, and where you've come from.
* BREAKING THE SEAL.Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. Afterbreaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will berequired every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
* TART FUEL.Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
* PICASSO BUM.A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she'sgot 4 buttocks.
* BLAMESTORMING. Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or aProject failed and who was responsible.
* SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything andthen leaves.
* ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement bysucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
* SALMON DAY.The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to getscrewed and die.
* CUBE FARM.An office filled with cubicles.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING.When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, andpeople's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (Thisalso applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
* SITCOMs.Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turninto when they have children and one of them stops working to stayhome with the kids or start a "home business".
* SINBAD.Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate. * PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to getit to work again.
* ADMINISPHERE.The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank andfile. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundlyinappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed tosolve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" -needless paperwork and processes.
* GOING FOR A McSHIT.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 isknown as a McShit with Lies.
* 404.Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 NotFound" meaning that the requested document could not be located.
* OH-NO SECOND.That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've justmade a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
* JOHNNY-NO-STARS.A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent whoworks in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badgesdisplaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear toshow their level of training.
* MILLENNIUM DOMES.The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewedfrom the outside, but there's actually naught in there worth seeing.
* SALAD DODGER.A phrase for an overweight person.
* MONKEY BATH .A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo!Aa! Aa! Aa!".
* BEER COAT.The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a boozecruise at 3:00am.
* BEER COMPASS.The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after boozecruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, howyou got here, and where you've come from.
* BREAKING THE SEAL.Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. Afterbreaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will berequired every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
* TART FUEL.Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
* PICASSO BUM.A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she'sgot 4 buttocks.
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