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| Blamestorming: | Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. |
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| Body Nazis: | Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively. |
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| Cube Farm: | An office filled with cubicles. |
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| Ego Surfing: | Scanning the Net, databases, print media and so on, looking for references to one's own name. |
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| Elvis Year: | The peak year of something's or someone's popularity. "Barney the Dinosaur's Elvis Year was 1993." |
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| 404: | Someone who is clueless. "Don't bother asking him, he's 404." From the WWW error message "404 Not Found," meaning the requested document couldn't be located. |
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| Idea Hamsters: | People who always seem to have their idea generators running. |
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| Keyboard Plaque: | The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. |
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| Mouse Potato: | The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. |
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| Ohnosecond: | That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a big mistake. |
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| Perot: | To quit unexpectedly, as in "My cell phone just perot'ed." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Squirt the Bird: | To transmit a signal to a satellite. |
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| Starter Marriage: | A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets. |
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| Stress Puppy: | A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. |
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| Swiped Out: | An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. |
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| 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." |
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| Treeware: | Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material. |
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| Uninstalled: | Euphemism for being fired. |
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| Xerox Subsidy: | Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. |
