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New words/phrases for 2007

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Miaou · 23/01/2007 10:19

  • TESTICULATING.
    Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

  • BLAMESTORMING.
    Sitting round 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, craps on everything, and then leaves.

  • ASSMOSIS.
    The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to 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 for a promotion because there may be cake.)

  • 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".

  • 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 get it to work again.

GOING FOR A McSHT.
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 is known as a McSh*t with Lies.

Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.

  • AUSSIE KISS.
    Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.

  • OH - NO SECOND.
    That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just Made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').

  • JOHNNY-NO-STARS.
    A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

  • MONKEY BATH.
    A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".

  • 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's Got 4 buttocks.

OP posts:
mawbroon · 23/01/2007 11:23

LOL. Love it Miaou.

Catbabymummy · 27/01/2007 12:31

I have one I thought of when I was driving.

LONGCUT : An alternative route you take on a journey, that all though is longer, is quicker because it enables you to avoid temporary traffic lights/jam/broken down lorry...

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