Subject: More Vocabulary Building
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 03:15:52 EST
"Vocabulary Building"
SALMON DAY - The experience of spending
an entire day swimming upstream, only to
get screwed and die in the end.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to
thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS - The ubiquitous
$20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere.
Often used when trying to split the bill after
a meal: "We owe $8 each, but all anybody's
got are yuppie food stamps.
TOURISTS: People who take training classes
just to get a vacation from their jobs. Example:
"We had three serious students in the class;
the rest were just tourists."
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired
generation's answer to the Couch potato.
OHNO-SECOND - That minuscule fraction
of time in which you realize that you've just
made a BIG mistake.
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.
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