Humor Files - newwords

Ran across these new words or jargon of an emerging language for
your vocabulary and wanted to pass them along. Add to spell check.  


Begathon: A TV or radio fund-raiser for a charity or PBS station in
which every form of guilt, sweet-talking and outright begging is used to
get people to fork over dough.

Blamestorming: 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.

Chain saw consultant: Expert brought in from the outside to reduce the
employee head count-leaving the top brass with clean hands.

Cube farm: An office filled with cubicles.

Dilberted: To be exploited and oppressed by one's boss.

Ego surfing: Scanning the Net, databases, print media, and so on,
looking for reference to one's own name.

Elvis year: The peak year of something's popularity. "Barney the
dinosaur's Elvis year was 1993".

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404
Not Found," meaning the requested document couldn't be located. "Don't
bother asking him: he's 404."

Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators
running.

Jitterati: Those who fear they are outside the digital revolution.

Keyboard plaque: The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on
computer keyboards.

Mouse potato: The wire online generations answer to the couch potato.

Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that
you've just screwed up.

Perot: To quit unexpectedly. As in "My cellular phone just perot'ed on
me."

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 up 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 strive 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 after extensive use.

Tourists: People who take training classes just to get a vacation from
their jobs. "We had  three serious students and the rest were tourists."

Treeware: Hackers slang for documentation or other printed material.

Uninstalled: Euphemism for being fired.

Xerox subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace.


David Dunlap
Dunlap & Associates
Richardson, TX

dwdunlap(at)flash.net