404 (15/19 New Words for 2006)
Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.
Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.
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.
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Is there a MPM (Master in Percussive Maintenance) available? That would be a very funny experience to go through.
Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another…
I am so glad I chose not to have a TV. I have so much free time! Life is great and I read books ![]()
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Laughing out loud! But I think that the HP Subsidy is much more widespread. But of course the more widely known subsidy is the [name your favorite Internet Service Provider] - Subsidy…. Isn’t it, my beloved readers?
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
Am I the only one that has gone through that with all his credit cards? Really, nowadays I pay most of my transactions with one plastic, and some strips cannot last for a year. It is so frustrating when they have to pass the thing 5 times to read it properly. But also, why do so many hate the credit cards? They swipe them with hatred, like they want to make them suffer!
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
Then theres is also the stress bragger: “Oh! You would not believe it! I am so stressed!” as a way of signaling success and responsibility. Both kinds are sooo annoying!
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
I am clearly not at risk of becoming a couch potato, as I have no TV set. But a mouse potato, maybe. I’d better unwire myself for a while, and I do not mean going wireless!
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.