Buzzwords Of 2003

• BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
  
  
• 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 what's going on.
  
  
• MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
  
  
• SITCOMS: (Single Income, Two Children, Opressive Mortgage) What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
  
  
• STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property, and no regrets.
  
  
• STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
  
  
• SWIPED OUT: an ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
  
  
• IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
  
  
• PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
  
  
• YUPPIE FOOD STAMPS: The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out at ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal, 'We each owe $8, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps!
  
  
• GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
  
  
• OHNOSECOND: That miniscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've made a BIG mistake.
  
  

[ Author Unknown -- from 'Aiken Drum' ]