>> Subject: The Lingo
>>
>> You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo. Here's the
latest
>> from my
>> friends in the corporate and Silicon Valley jungles:
>>
>> "batmobiling" putting up emotional shields (from the retracting
armor
>> that
>> covers the batmobile) as in "she started talking marriage and he
>> started
>> batmobiling"
>> "beepilepsy" aflicts those with vibrating pagers characterized by
sudden
>> spasms, goofy facial expressions and loss of speech
>> "betamaxed" when a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior
but
>> better marketed competition as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right
out
>> of the
>> market"
>> "generica" fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in "we
were
>> so lost
>> in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was"
>> "irritainment" annoying but you can't stop watching as in the O.J.
trial
>> "percussive maintenance" the fine art of whacking a device to get
it
>> working
>> "prairie dogging" in companies where everyone has a cubicle
something
>> happens
>> and everyone pops up to look
>> "salmon day" swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end
>> "square headed girlfriend" computer
>> "treeware" manuals and documentation
>> "um-friend" sexual relationship "this is Mary, my...um...friend"
>> "yuppie food coupons" twenty dollar bills from an ATM
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