New words / phrases for 2007

SALAD DODGER.
Grossly overweight

SWAMP-DONKEY
Deeply unattractive

TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms and talking bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING.
Group session on why 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.
Success by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY.
An entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed at the end.

PRAIRIE DOGGING.
Heads popping up over the walls in a cube farm to see what's going on in the face of a disturbance.

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 or start a "home business".

SINBAD.
Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

AEROPLANE BLONDE.
Carpet and curtains don't match

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
Whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work.

ADMINISPHERE.
Organisational 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. This is often
affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.

GOING FOR A McS##T.
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McS##t with Lies.

404.
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.

AUSSIE KISS.
Similar to a French Kiss, but administered down under.

OH - NO SECOND.
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').

JOHNNY-NO-STARS.
A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

MILLENNIUM DOMES.
The contents of a Wonderbra, (Usually much ado about nothing)

MONKEY BATH.
"Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!"- climbing into a hot bath.

MYSTERY BUS.
The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th beer, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

MYSTERY TAXI.
The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10 Pinter in your bed instead.

BEER COAT.
The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3:00am.

BEER COMPASS.
The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.

BREAKING THE SEAL.
Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.

TART FUEL.
Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

PICASSO BUM.
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's
got 4 buttocks.