New Terminology

  • Father
    A banker provided by nature.
  • Boss
    Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
  • Smile
    A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
  • Rumor
    News that travels at the speed of sound.
  • Dictionary
    The only place where divorce comes before marriage.
  • College
    A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.
  • Ecstasy
    A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.
  • Office
    A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  • Yawn
    The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
  • Etc.
    A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
  • Committee
    Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
  • Classic
    A book which people praise, but do not read.
  • Marriage
    It’s an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master’s.
  • Worry
    Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
  • Experience
    The name men give to their mistakes.
  • Tears
    The hydraulic force by which masculine power is defeated by feminine power.
  • Atom Bomb
    An invention to end all inventions.
  • Philosopher
    A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
  • Diplomat
    A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
  • Optimist
    A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
  • Pessimist
    A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY
  • Miser
    A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
  • Criminal
    A guy no different from the rest… except that he got caught.
  • Politician
    One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
  • Doctor
    A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.
  • Software Engineer
    Someone who is paid for reading this !!!

New Terms for the 90s

  • Blamestorming
    Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
  • Ego Surfing
    Scanning the Net, databases, print media and so on, looking for references to one’s own name.
  • Swiped Out
    An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. (And it only happens when you only have $.23 cents in your wallet)
  • GOOD Job
    A “Get-Out-Of-Debt” job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
  • Tourists
    People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. “We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
  • Beepilepsy
    The brief seizure people sometimes have when their beeper goes off (especially in vibrator mode). Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions and interruption of speech in mid-sentence.
  • SnailMail
    “REAL” mail that the post office actually sends PS. In the US, Personal snail mail has dropped 10% last because of email.
  • Starter
    A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce. Marriage with no kids, no property and no regrets.
  • SITCOMs
    What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
  • Mouse Potato
    The online, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato. ARE YOU ONE?
  • Anonymiss
    The act of forgetting someone’s name immediately upon being introduced.
  • Crough
    To cough during a play or concert, causing other people around you to cough.
  • Jennamnesia
    To be so drunk as to forget you’re the President’s daughter.
  • Bobbityboo
    Mental distress in males inspired by thoughts of surgically-removed penises.
  • Spaffle
    Completely cooked waffle iron runoff.
  • Smealth
    The ability to secretly leave behind body odor in an elevator to be blamed on the next person who enters.
  • Algoria
    Finding one’s Day Planner suddenly very, very, open.
  • Massturbation
    Group phone sex.
  • Dopplersation
    A discussion held by two people who are continuing to move away from each other.
  • Afterblow
    The compulsive need to review the contents of one’s handkerchief following a good nose-blow.
  • Spillisecond
    The fraction of a second in which one may recover a toppled beverage before any liquid spills out.
  • Algebrassierism
    The compulsion to spend time in math class spelling “BOOBIES” on an upside-down calculator.
  • Doglet
    Any breed of dog so small it can be terrorized by the average-sized house cat.
  • Squee-Squee
    The curved line on a windshield caused by a little nick in an old wiper blade.

More New Words

  • Chainsaw Consultant
    An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
  • Cube Farm
    An office filled with cubicles.
  • Idea Hamsters
    People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
  • Computer Potato
    The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
  • SITCOMs (Single Income, Two Children, Outrageous Mortgage)
    What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
  • Squirt the Bird
    To transmit a signal to a satellite.
  • 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.
  • Xerox Subsidy
    Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

Words You Won’t Find in the Dictionary

  • Arachnoleptic Fit
    (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
  • Beelzebug
    (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 am in the morning and cannot be cast out.
  • Bozone
    (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
  • Caterpallor
    (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
  • Cashtration
    (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
  • Decaflon
    (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
  • Dopelar Effect
    (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when you come at them rapidly.
  • Extraterrestaurant
    (n.) An eating place where you feel you’ve been abducted and experimented upon. Also known as an E-T-ry.
  • Faunacated
    (adj.) How wildlife ends up when its environment is destroyed. Hence faunacatering (v.), which has made a meal of many species.
  • Grantartica
    (n.) The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding.
  • Hemaglobe
    (n.) The bloody state of the world.
  • Intaxication
    (n.) Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
  • Kinstirpation
    (n.) A painful inability to move relatives who come to visit.
  • Lullabuoy
    (n.) An idea that keeps floating into your head and prevents you from drifting off to sleep.
  • Reintarnation
    (n.) Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
  • Karmageddon
    (n.)It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like a serious bummer.
  • Sarchasm
    (n.)The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn’t get it.