- 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, Oppressive 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.
- PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
- The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
- VULCAN NERVE PINCH:
- The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the arm reboot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control Key, the Command Key, the Return Key, and the Power On Key.
- 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.
- WOOFYS:
- Well Off Older Folks.