VocabuBuilders!
"Increase your wordiness"
(randomly generated page of amusment from http://www.psyclops.com/giggles/)"batmobiling"
putting up emotional shields (from the retracting armor
that covers the batmobile) as in "she started talking
marriage and he started batmobiling
(Is THAT what I do? lol)
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"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"
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"cobweb"
a WWW site that never changes
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"elvis year"
the peak year of popularity as in "1993 was Barney the
dinosaur's elvis year"
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"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"
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"irritainment"
annoying but you can't stop watching as in the O.J. trial
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"percussive maintenance"
the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
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"prairie dogging"
in companies where everyone has a cubicle--something
happens and everyone pops up to look
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"ribs 'n' dick"
a budget with no fat as in "we've got ribs 'n dick and
we're supposed to find 20K for memory upgrades"
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"salmon day"
swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end
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"siliwood"
the coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and
computers; also "hollywired"
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"square headed girlfriend"
computer
(heeee!! aaah, yet another boyfriend to add to the list of imaginary boyfriends)
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"treeware"
manuals and documentation
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"um-friend"
sexual relationship "this is Susan, my...um...friend"
(SNERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRK... 'nuff said on THAT topic, heh.)
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"yuppie food coupons"
twenty dollar bills from an ATM