Popular words of the 90's
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. This is what consultants are for, to take blame.
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. That's where I work, is in a Cube farm.
IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. The world I've helped create.
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. It commonly happens in most Cube Farms.
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. Thankfully we're avoiding this.
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. This is what direct employees do to get away.
TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
GOING POSTAL: Euphemism for being totally stressed out, for losing it. Makes reference to the unfortunate track record of postal employees who have snapped and gone on shooting rampages.
ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
CHIPS & SALSA: Chips = hardware, salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa.
FLIGHT RISK: Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
GOOD Job = A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
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. Bill Clinton's shameful video Grand Jury testimony is another.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
UNINSTALLED: Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voice-mail of a vice president at a downsizing computer firm: "You have reached the number of an Uninstalled Vice President. Please dial our main number and ask the operator for assistance. *(Syn: decruitment.)
VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the arm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key, and the Power On key.
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS: The ubiquitous £20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal, "We each owe £8, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT :FOR ALL THOSE BORN BEFORE 1945 - WE ARE SURVIVORS!!!! Consider the changes we have witnessed
-Author Unknown
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. That's where I work, is in a Cube farm.
IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. The world I've helped create.
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. It commonly happens in most Cube Farms.
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. Thankfully we're avoiding this.
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. This is what direct employees do to get away.
TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
GOING POSTAL: Euphemism for being totally stressed out, for losing it. Makes reference to the unfortunate track record of postal employees who have snapped and gone on shooting rampages.
ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
CHIPS & SALSA: Chips = hardware, salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa.
FLIGHT RISK: Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
GOOD Job = A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
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. Bill Clinton's shameful video Grand Jury testimony is another.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
UNINSTALLED: Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voice-mail of a vice president at a downsizing computer firm: "You have reached the number of an Uninstalled Vice President. Please dial our main number and ask the operator for assistance. *(Syn: decruitment.)
VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the arm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key, and the Power On key.
YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS: The ubiquitous £20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal, "We each owe £8, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT :FOR ALL THOSE BORN BEFORE 1945 - WE ARE SURVIVORS!!!! Consider the changes we have witnessed
- We were born before television, before penicillin, before polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, Frisbees and the Pill.
- We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball points; before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes -- and before man walked on the moon.
- We got married first and then lived together....How quaint can you be?
- In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of."
- Designer jeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeanne, and having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with our cousins.
- We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent and Outer Space was the back row of the Cinema.
- We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and commuter marriages.
- We were before daycare centers, group therapy, and nursing homes.
- We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, yogurt and guys wearing earrings.
- For us, time-sharing meant togetherness -- not computers or condominiums; a "chip" meant a piece of wood; hardware meant hardware; and software wasn’t even a word!
- We hit the scene when Woolworths sold everything for sixpence. Mr. Whippy and Tonibell sold ice cream cones for thruppence. For one penny you could ride a trolleybus, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi or enough stamps to mail one letter or two postcards. You could buy a new Morris Oxford for £300, but who could afford one; a pity too, because petrol was only 1 and 6p a gallon.
- In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable. GRASS was mowed, COKE was a cold drink, and POT was something you cooked in. ROCK MUSIC was a Grandma’s lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Headmasters office.
- We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change; we made do with what we had. And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby!
-Author Unknown
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