Don't laugh but...

One of my favorite things is to learn new words. Really. I have a CD that I keep in my car to play while I'm running errands. I thought I should give you some of my latest learnings: (not really but these are funny)

Subject: NEW WORDS FOR 2007

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or why a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise,
craps on everything and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success
and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

6. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
cube farm and peoples' heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The online, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What
Yuppies become after they have children and one of them stops working to
stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out
and whiney.

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

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying,
but which you find yourself unable to stop watching.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking an electronic device
with the hope of getting it to work again.

14. 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.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message
"404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.

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

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule moment of time in which you realize
that you've just made a BIG mistake (like inadvertently hitting 'send' on an email).

18. WOOFs: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while transiting a Cube Farm.

Some of these are awesome. Never heard them before and I love them. Now if only I can remember them and use them while talking and writing. I think I'll print this. Thanks Dianne.

My BIL subscribes to a word of the day site. Every now and then he forwards us the word when he knows we'll get a kick out of it. Do you subscribe to any of those sites?

Never heard of them.

Dianne this is a wonderful goulash word dish.

I hope my literary digestive tract leads to the correct brain channels where this conglomerate of animated words will be correctly stored, in order to enhance my head muscles glossary when I need to open the library pantry of my mind.

Adminisphere and 404. I'd surely be using them now at the firm. Thanks, Dianne.

Excellent!

This was great. I'm sending it to my people!
Thanks for sharing it with us Dianne!

I just stopped myself from doing #17 today!

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking an electronic device with the hope of getting it to work again.

Does this work on Men, too? Just curious,

chick

Oh, these are great. Send more, please!

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE was my favorite from the list, and Chickadee, you've made it even better!

I want to be able to say, WOOF, WOOF...instead of doing so much CROP DUSTING....

WHAT?

These are priceless...

Dianne has done it again. She has sent me some of the best, funniest emails you can imagine and she's naughty too!!!

And proud of it!!!!

Forward them on Chatty! I can take it!!!!!!

I've known a few memorable #19's...

Hysterical...I sent it to my work email so that I can share it with the girls tomorrow!

Diane, I think the word of the day is through wordsmith.com. I just checked our home email and there aren't any in there from him this week but I think that's it.

Thanks...I'll check it out.

Dianne, thanks for sharing these. I am going to bring them to my Toastmaster's club. We are supposed to have a "word of the day" at each meeting, and the word can get "wordy." These will bring a good laugh!

Diane,
Those are great.
Dotsie,
I went to that site which led me to another site for anagrams. You can put your name in and it will give you hundreds of anagram possibilities.

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

Clint Eastwood is an anagram for Old West Action.

Laurel

Great sites. Anagram for me is "A Drain".
chick

OH NO! I put in my first name and my married name and one of the anagrams was "A Dreamer No"...go figure

My favorite is 'stress puppy'!

Mine was GAG ORE I

Bought as close to a Gag Oreo as you can get...eh?

There were 26 for my first name. I've never even thought of that before. Wow.

But I don't think gag and oreo should be in the same thought.