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Old Jul 18, 2003, 02:10 PM
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Buzz Words for 2003

> WORDS FOR 2003
>
> > BLAMESTORMING:
> Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
> was missed or a project
> failed, and who was responsible.
>
> SEAGULL MANAGER:
> A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
> on everything, and then
> leaves.
>
> ASSMOSIS:
> The process by which some people seem to absorb
> success and advancement by
> kissing 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 in the end.
>
> 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.
>
> STRESS PUPPY:
> A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out
> and whiny.
>
> XEROX SUBSIDY:
> Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
> workplace.
>
> PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
> The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
> electronic device to get it to
> work again.
>
> ADMINISPHERE:
> The rarefied organizational layers beginning just
> above the rank and file.
> Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often
> profoundly inappropriate
> or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to
> solve.
>
> OHNOSECOND:
> That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
> that you've just made a
> really BIG mistake.

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Old Jul 19, 2003, 09:32 PM
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Heehee!

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Old Jul 22, 2003, 07:33 AM
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LOVE these !!!

ESPECIALLY the Seagull Mgr., Assmosis (too funny) and Salmon Day !

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Old Jul 22, 2003, 10:33 AM
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Percussive Maintenance...What a fine art indeed

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Old Jul 22, 2003, 01:00 PM
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Oh these are too good!!!!!

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Old Jul 22, 2003, 05:16 PM
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Yup - these were just C&P'd to send out to my e-mail list !!!


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Old Jul 22, 2003, 07:18 PM
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love it...........totally!!!

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Old Jul 27, 2003, 02:14 AM
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HeeHeeHeeHeeHawHawHawHawHooHooHooHoo Good one!!!

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Old Jul 28, 2003, 01:18 PM
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I happen to have a Seagull manager...... hehehehehehehe

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