Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 01:00:32 -0500

From: Greg Pulliam gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHARLIE.IIT.EDU

Subject: lingo (fwd)



I know a lot of these have already made their way onto this list, but I

think there are enough new ones to warrant this unedited forward.



Greg Pulliam





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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:11:52 -0400

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From: pennyleb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ncsu.edu (Penny LeBourgeois)

Subject: lingo





You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo. Here's the latest

from the

corporate and Silicon Valley jungles.



"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



"blowing your buffer" = losing your train of thought



"yuppie food stamps" = twenty dollar bills from an ATM



"ribs 'n' dick" = a budget with no fat, as in "we've got ribs 'n' dick and

we're supposed to find another $20,000 for memory upgrades"



"square headed girlfriend/or boyfriend = computer



"treeware" = manuals and documentation



"umfriend" = sexual relationship, as in "this is Dale, my...um...friend"



"batmobiling" = putting up emotional shields (from the retracting armor that

covers the batmobile, as in "she started talking marriage and he started

batmobiling")



"beepilepsy" = afflicts 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"



"cobweb" = a WWW site that never changes



"going postal" = totally stressed out and losing it like postal

employees who

go on shooting rampages



"high dome" = egghead, scientist, PhD



"elvis year" = the peak year of popularity, as in "1993 was Barney the

dinosaur's elvis year"



"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, e.g. the O.J. trial



"meatspace" = the physical world (as opposed to the virtual), also

"carbon community", "facetime", "F2F", "RL"



"salmon day" = swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end



"siliwood" also "hollywired" = the coming convergence of movies, interactive

TV and computers



"world wide wait" = WWW







Penny LeBourgeois

Center for Advanced Electronic Materials Processing

North Carolina State University

NCSU Box 7920

Raleigh, NC 27695

phone = (919) 515-5051 FAX = (919) 515-5055





Buz Smith

Assistant Director, Administration

Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center

E-mail: buz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]colorado.edu

(303) 492-7129





Greg