New Words for 2005 • Non-Gaming • Humour • Eurogamer.net

kryten 13 Jul 2005 12:47:48 191 posts
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copied from my clans forum....

TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.

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

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

ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and
Advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY. The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
only to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING. When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on.
(This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be
cake.)

SITCOMs. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies
turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay
home
with the kids or start a "home business".

SINBAD. single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

STRESS PUPPY. A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational 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. This is often affiliated with the dreaded
"administrivia" -
needless paperwork and processes.

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

OHNOSECOND. That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

GOING FOR A McSHIT. Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of
buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply
staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food
afterwards
is known as a McShit with Lies.

AEROPLANE BLONDE. One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a
'black box'.

AUSSIE KISS. Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.

BEER COAT. The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a
booze cruise at 3am.

BEER COMPASS. The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home
after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you
live,
how you got here, and where you've come from.

BOBFOC. Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.

BREAKING THE SEAL. Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of
drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the
toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the
night.

BRITNEY SPEARS. Modern Slang for 'beers', e.g. "Couple of Britneys
please"

GREYHOUND. A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.

JOHNNY-NO-STARS. A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical
adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from
the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often
wear
to show their level of training.

MILLENNIUM DOMES. The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive
when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in there worth
seeing.

MONKEY BATH. A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go:
"Oo!Oo!Oo! Aa!Aa!Aa!".

MYSTERY BUS. The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while
you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the
unattractive
people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back
in.

MYSTERY TAXI. The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning
before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a
10-Pinter in your bed instead.

NELSON MANDELA. Rhyming Slang for 'Stella' (the lager)

PEARLHARBOUR. Cold (weather). An example of it would be - "It's a bit
Pearl Harbour" out there (there's a nasty nip in the air)

PICASSO BUM. A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks
like she's got four buttocks

SALAD DODGER. An excellent phrase for an overweight person

SWAMP-DONKEY. A deeply unattractive woman

TART FUEL. Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women

/apologies if youve already seen it

:S

MrWorf 13 Jul 2005 12:55:37 64,187 posts
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\o/

Load_2.0 13 Jul 2005 13:00:52 33,582 posts
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I realy liked some of those, quality. Cheers.

MrWorf 13 Jul 2005 13:05:37 64,187 posts
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"AEROPLANE BLONDE. One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a
'black box'."

ROFLOL

Deleted user 13 July 2005 13:09:21

LOL. Excellent stuff.

Deleted user 13 July 2005 13:11:11

Very good. Best one of these I'ev seen in ages, althuogh I wil point out that the Pearl Hearbor one is ever so slightly racist

Tiger_Walts 13 Jul 2005 13:17:07 16,674 posts
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A few oldies in there but some great new ones.

Deleted user 13 July 2005 13:18:14

Driv3r and variations:

To rip somoene off: "I'm going to Driv3 that person"

To be ripped of: "I was Driv3n"

kryten 13 Jul 2005 13:49:47 191 posts
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kryten 13 Jul 2005 13:50:05 191 posts
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kryten 13 Jul 2005 13:52:37 191 posts
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christ, i went to lunch thinking that everyone had me on ignore!

\o/

edit: getting strange posting behaviour..... :S

Deleted user 13 July 2005 13:53:56

Okay everyone delete your posts now

Deleted user 13 July 2005 13:54:18

kryten wrote:
christ, i went to lunch thinking that everyone had me on ignore!

We did. There was an item on the front page telling us to temporarily un-ignore you though ;o)

phAge 13 Jul 2005 13:56:09 25,487 posts
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Hehe - some very good ones in there indeed!

"Mystery bus" - don't we know it...

Lutz 13 Jul 2005 13:57:03 48,870 posts
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kryten wrote:
edit: getting strange posting behaviour..... :S

Sorry, that was me. You had a double post 2 minutes apart, so I figured you'd not spotted it, so I wiped the top one. I'm guessing you wiped the bottom one.

Sorry Kryters old mate! Take the space bike for a ride if you liek and see if you can come back with a different head.

kryten 13 Jul 2005 14:26:30 191 posts
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Lutz wrote:

kryten wrote:
edit: getting strange posting behaviour..... :S
Sorry, that was me. You had a double post 2 minutes apart, so I figured you'd not spotted it, so I wiped the top one. I'm guessing you wiped the bottom one.

Sorry Kryters old mate! Take the space bike for a ride if you liek and see if you can come back with a different head.

yeah, i deleted the bottom one (logically)

right im off on the bike.

/watches casablanca
/dons biking leathers
/sods off around red dwarf

shhmmeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeee

Dirtbox 13 Jul 2005 14:32:21 92,595 posts
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Deleted user 29 August 2005 10:35:09

Just saw these, ACE!

dadrester 29 Aug 2005 11:36:01 2,560 posts
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there's another...
a kronenburg - a lady with a very attractive figure... but a haggard old witches face. kronenburg 1664. looks like 16 from the back looks like 64 from the front.

DaisyD 29 Aug 2005 20:12:18 11,816 posts
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Fantastic!! There's another phrase which young people today use which I've forgotton. I'm off to have a Monkey Bath and try to remember what the phrase is . . .