October 1, 2013, Noun: "A person who spends a great deal of time using a computer":
Related Noun: "A person who uses the Internet, electronic communication or social networks
to harm, harass or intimidate another person."
* Please feel free to contribute your own.
Here are a few to tide you over; I'll be out of pocket for about a month:
* BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
* SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
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.
SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
* STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
* 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.
* 404: Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.
* GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. --->If you like Pete Seeger, you'll enjoy this oldie:
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.
* WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
"Transitive Verb, Present Tense: perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified);
synonyms: carry out, undertake, discharge, execute, perform, accomplish, achieve:"
love, noun.
1. "A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. 2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. 3. A love affair. 4. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object. 5. A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment. 6. An expression of one's affection: Send him my love. 7. a. A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language. b. The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love. 8. Love Mythology Eros or Cupid. 9. often Love Christianity Charity. 10. Sports A zero score in tennis. (please see note*)
loved, lov·ing, loves verb. transitive
1. To have a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward (a person): We love our parents. I love my friends. 2. To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person). 3. To have an intense emotional attachment to: loves his house. 4. love a. To embrace or caress. b. To have sexual intercourse with. 5. To like or desire enthusiastically: loves swimming. 6. Theology To have charity for. 7. To thrive on; need: The cactus loves hot, dry air.
love, verb intransitive.
To experience deep affection or intense desire for another. Idioms: for love Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love. for love or money. Under any circumstances. Usually used in negative sentences: I would not do that for love or money. for the love of For the sake of; in consideration for: did it all for the love of praise.
in love
1. Deeply or passionately enamored: a young couple in love. 2. Highly or immoderately fond: in love with Japanese painting; in love with the sound of her own voice. no love lost. No affection; animosity: There's no love lost between them.
Synonyms: love, affection, devotion, fondness, infatuation These nouns denote feelings of warm personal attachment or strong attraction to another person. Love is the most intense: marrying for love. Affection is a less ardent and more unvarying feeling of tender regard: parental affection. Devotion is earnest, affectionate dedication and implies selflessness: teachers admired for their devotion to children. Fondness is strong liking or affection: a fondness for small animals. Infatuation is foolish or extravagant attraction, often of short duration: lovers blinded to their differences by their mutual infatuation." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Love
* At the time of the Olde English King James Translation of the Bible, the most intense word for "love" was "cherish".
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pop3.htm
"One of the rarest words in the language." Ever heard of it before now?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbySalmon Day! That was good, really
Here are a few to tide you over; I'll be out of pocket for about a month:
* BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
* SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some peop ...[text shortened]... ew-words-for-the-21st-century-2
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