Special Snowflake!

[klone]

If I hear that phrase here one more time, I might have to slap you in the forehead. Stop. Please.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Oh Ruby Vee, I think of you as the Empress, GreenTea is Professor Emeritus, and Esme, the Goddess!

Since I am female, I would prefer "Emerita." Just sayin'.

I am perfectly willing to join that awesome triumvirate on that basis. You could call us the (Three) EEEs. We've been around long enough to all have wide flat feet. :) We could go soaring through the air chasing those damn rainbow-farting unicorns, yelling, "EEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEE!"

[Farawyn]

Au contraire. True COBs bow to no one, and we are all sisters (and maybe a few brothers) to every other COB. None of us rule the roost, nor do we aspire to. Bow to one of us, bow to all of us. Better yet, join us.

{{Love ya, Ruby!}}

*swoons*

[Dogen]

I'm a COB-of COURSE I'm trying to start something!! 😈

NET...O? NET...M?

I'm not sure which unfairly maligned age group I belong to, but as soon as I figure it out I'm making an acronym and then you'll be sorry.

[JBudd, MSN]

Au contraire. True COBs bow to no one, and we are all sisters (and maybe a few brothers) to every other COB. None of us rule the roost, nor do we aspire to. Bow to one of us, bow to all of us. Better yet, join us.

Are you calling us all hobbits? I admit my feet are a bit hairy.....

[WellThatsOod]

Filthy hobbitses

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

I will not accept that Snowflakes and COBs are the only options. There must be a happy medium in there somewhere.

Crusty old/young snowflake?

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

Special Old Bats? (SOB)

[Farawyn]

JBudd, That's the first thing I thought of.

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

At my hospital if you work a 4-hour shift it's called a princess shift

We call those princess shifts too!

[ReadyToListen, CNA, EMT-B]

COB= Crusty Old Bat. It was an insult given to several of the more experienced people here. Rather than be insulted, we embraced it.

I like that! Lemons > lemonade, yes?

[ReadyToListen, CNA, EMT-B]

What yahweh1276, BSN said!!! LOL

[CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN]

If I hear that phrase here one more time, I might have to slap you in the forehead. Stop. Please.

I've never heard this term used in my clinical setting and I don't want to make an assumption as to what it means. Please, educate me!