Fun with words

Generation X Office LingoBlamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.Body Nazis: Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.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', meanig 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 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.Uninstalled: Euphemism for being fired.Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.