NEW WORDS FOR 2006:
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This was passed on to me by my friend Doug, a Greyhound driving network expert and I thought it was so well done that I decided to put it up here for all to see. I haven't a clue who the original author is but just so it wasn't a wholesale rip-off I added number 8, 21, 22, 23, 24, & 25 to the list. That's a 25% addition to your lexicon if you've seen the list before. What a bonus!

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a "Deadline" was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get chewed out by a grizzly bear at quitting time.
5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles
6. PRAIRIE DOGGING: 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.
7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
8. DINKS: Dual Income - No Kids. This can be a life filled with the latest and greatest that can come to an abrupt end without very careful planning.
9. SITCOMS: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What "DINKS" turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
10. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
11. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
12. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
13. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. In the "Old Days" it was the "Radio Jingle" you couldn't get out of your head. Remember radio?
14. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
15. ADMINISPHERE: 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.
16. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
17. GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
18. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.(Like after hitting send on an email by mistake.)
19. WOOFS: Well Off Older Folks.
20. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a "Cube Farm".
21. TRENDOID: The co-worker that has to have the latest and greatest anything.
22. BUSTICATED: A state of being when "Percussive Maintenance" no longer has an effect.
23. REMOTE CONTROL: The power your boss has over you even though you know he won't be back from his Hawaiian vacation for another two weeks.
24. AFFLUENZA: The affliction that strikes the offspring of the newly rich rendering them completely void of ambition.
25. BUZZILLIONAIRE: A guy who's wealth is based more on buzz than bucks.
26. IJACKED: Being the victim of identity theft.

Check back regularly, no telling what little nugget of gnarled knowledge or whimsical wisdom you're going to unearth here but it could be a 'Completely New Nugget' - and you can say you saw it here first.

Hasta La L8r Señor Definition Expert