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New Office Slang
« on: September 25, 2005, 11:31:29 am »
New Office Slang


404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message,

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2005, 12:13:18 pm »

Funny, though I've never heard any of those terms in the office.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2005, 01:06:51 pm »
well you can now be the first........

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2005, 02:09:27 pm »
well you can now be the first........

... to misuse the term Brain Fart.

You say "Squirt The Bird" around anyone I work with, and they'll be calling you a homo for the rest of your career.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2005, 02:26:09 pm »
something tells me most of these won't catch on :)

Some of them are pretty amusing though.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2005, 02:11:06 am »
The more universally accepted definition of brainfart is : A spontaneous stupid (Stupid the noun, not stupid the adjective) usually accompanied by loss of train of thought and saying something fantastically stupid without realising it.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Brainfart

Your list seems to have it as the opposite.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2005, 02:47:46 am »
They won't catch on, that list is 7 years old, first posted to usenet in june of 1997. Almost none of the terms have seen any use at all, and some of the definitions are quite dated. I mean, this list mentions Kevin Mitnik, he hasn't been relevant to anything for ages.
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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2005, 03:03:22 am »
They won't catch on, that list is 7 years old, first posted to usenet in june of 1997. Almost none of the terms have seen any use at all, and some of the definitions are quite dated. I mean, this list mentions Kevin Mitnik, he hasn't been relevant to anything for ages.
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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2005, 10:06:14 am »
I intend to put "crop dusting" into effect ASAP.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2005, 10:10:57 am »

Oh wait, was Brain Fart in there?  I use that one myself.  I had a brain fart when I read that list, apparently.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2005, 10:20:55 am »
Brain fart was there, but I think most of us agree that the definition given is the opposite of the one generally accepted.

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Re: New Office Slang
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2005, 10:22:28 am »

Yeah, hadn't read it thoroughly.  The term we use for that is usually Core Dump, named after a unix process crash that produces a huge debug file for analysis.