{"id":1521,"date":"2014-12-31T19:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:56:53","slug":"new-terms-for-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"New Terms for the 90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Blamestorming<br \/>\nSitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.<\/li>\n<p><li>Ego Surfing<br \/>\nScanning the Net, databases, print media and so on, looking for references to one&#8217;s own name.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Swiped Out<br \/>\nAn 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)<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>GOOD Job<br \/>\nA &#8220;Get-Out-Of-Debt&#8221; 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.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Tourists<br \/>\nPeople who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. &#8220;We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Beepilepsy<br \/>\nThe 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.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>SnailMail<br \/>\n&#8220;REAL&#8221; mail that the post office actually sends PS. In the US, Personal snail mail has dropped 10% last because of email.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Starter<br \/>\nA short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce. Marriage with no kids, no property and no regrets.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>SITCOMs<br \/>\nWhat 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.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Mouse Potato<br \/>\nThe online, wired generation&#8217;s answer to the couch potato. ARE YOU ONE?<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Anonymiss<br \/>\nThe act of forgetting someone&#8217;s name immediately upon being introduced.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Crough<br \/>\nTo cough during a play or concert, causing other people around you to cough.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Jennamnesia<br \/>\nTo be so drunk as to forget you&#8217;re the President&#8217;s daughter.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Bobbityboo<br \/>\nMental distress in males inspired by thoughts of surgically-removed penises.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Spaffle<br \/>\nCompletely cooked waffle iron runoff.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Smealth<br \/>\nThe ability to secretly leave behind body odor in an elevator to be blamed on the next person who enters.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Algoria<br \/>\nFinding one&#8217;s Day Planner suddenly very, very, open.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Massturbation<br \/>\nGroup phone sex.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Dopplersation<br \/>\nA discussion held by two people who are continuing to move away from each other.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Afterblow<br \/>\nThe compulsive need to review the contents of one&#8217;s handkerchief following a good nose-blow.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Spillisecond<br \/>\nThe fraction of a second in which one may recover a toppled beverage before any liquid spills out.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Algebrassierism<br \/>\nThe compulsion to spend time in math class spelling &#8220;BOOBIES&#8221; on an upside-down calculator.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Doglet<br \/>\nAny breed of dog so small it can be terrorized by the average-sized house cat.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Squee-Squee<br \/>\nThe curved line on a windshield caused by a little nick in an old wiper blade.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s own name. 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