Alternatives to Thinking About Who the Dems Should Run

New words for 2007 you can help spread

(Contributed by Natasha, our European correspondent)

Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

Seagull Manager - manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything 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.

Testiculating - waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

SITCOMS - single income, two children, and oppressive mortgage. What yuppies turn in to when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids and then wants to start a home business.

SINBAD - Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriends and desperate.

Stress puppy - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it working again.

Adminisphere - The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall in to the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded administrate trivia of needless paperwork and processes.

404 - Someone who is clueless. From the World Wide Web error message 404 not found meaning that the requested document could not be located.

Ohnosecond - That miniscule fraction of time in which you realise you have made a big mistake (eg you've hit reply to all).

Beer Coat - The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3am

Salad Dodger - An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

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.

Mouse Potato. The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.


Swipeout. An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

Xerox Subsidy. Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

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.

Generica. Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions...

Woofys. Well Off Older Folks.

Crop Dusting. Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust