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Tuesday, 17 June 1997 |
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You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo. Here's the latest from
my friends in the corporate and Silicon Valley jungles:
- generica
- fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in "we were so
lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was"
- irritainment
- annoying but you can't stop watching as in the O.J. trial
- percussive maintenance
- the fine art of whacking a device to get it working
- prairie dogging
- in companies where everyone has a cubicle something happens and
everyone pops up to look
- salmon day
- swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end
- square headed girlfriend
- computer
- treeware
- manuals and documentation
- um-friend
- sexual relationship "this is Mary, my...um...friend"
- world wide wait
- WWW
- yuppie food stamps
- twenty dollar bills from an ATM
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