LOL! Raf, that happens to me when I'm talking to someone "back home"....only it isn't a Bronx accent, it's a thick southern drawl.
Lots of prairie dogging goes on in my cube farm because the boss doesn't let us play music or anything, so you can hear every little peep in someone else's cube. You know who's fighting with their spouse, who's kid broke curfew, who had beans for dinner.....
ex, here's a rundown on the cube farm techno-talk for ya:
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or 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: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream onlyto get screwed and die in the end.
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.)
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nichole show or the Bachelor is a prime example.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational 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.
404: Someone who's clueless. >From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" (meaning that the requested document, like the person's brain, could not be located.)
GENERICA: Features of the North American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.
CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.)
CLM - Career Limiting Move. Like when you criticize the decision of a VP while in an elevator without realizing that said VP is standing directly behind you.
This week I waited in line at the post office to buy stamps, which I did, then I put the letters in the slot without putting the stamps on them (D'OH!)
I was writing out checks a few months back-I usually write them out fast to get them out of the way-i was a little distracted , at the date part before I knew it I wrote in 1979--- :o-->
Am i that far gone??
I have no idea where that came from-I think I hit a timewarp for a second.
That's not too bad. Sometimes, I forget what I come into a room to look for. I often have to go back out and in several times in the hopes of jarring my memory of what it was I was supposed to remember.
Sometimes, I forget what I come into a room to look for. I often have to go back out and in several times in the hopes of jarring my memory of what it was I was supposed to remember.
I do that all the time, especially now that we're in a two story house - go upstairs to do something, see something else, do that, forget why I came up, go back down, remember, go back up......
As for speaker phones at work, I don't mind people using them because I'm nosey.
That's why I'll NEVER live in a 2 story house, O&A! LOL!
quote:
As for speaker phones at work, I don't mind people using them because I'm nosey.
Those conversations are boring it's the ones on the cell phones that are the best! The cube mate in front of me has his so loud I CAN hear both sides of those conversations and let me tell you......
Yep. Some of the "best" I've heard.. well, I've heard almost everything.. people walking down the streets talking in the darn things, like there is nobody else listening.
I've heard stuff from talk about their current STD to arguments with almost ex spouse who withdrew all the money out of the accounts.. all this stuff right out on the street..
Cripe. I think THEY are giving us ten or more things we REALLY don't want to know..
LOL! Ham, I once had to listen to a whole conversation this girl had about her boyfriend cheating on her. After she got off the phone I walked over, sat down beside her and offered her my advice. LOL!
She looked at me like I was crazy at first and so I told her that if she was going to air her dirty laundry where others could hear it then she should be willing to listen to what others have to say about it. :D-->
while in the grocery store the other this dim wit is on his ear phone in the aisle where tampons ect are asking his wife {or whatevere} does she want the ones with wings on them
Talking about forgetting what you came into the room for, reminded me of my trouble.
I miss name things....I will ask the kid to hand me my camera when I really want the tv remote, or the phone when I really mean my keys...tell the kids to load up in the dish washer ..instead of the car...it used to really scare me...but now I simply qualify every statement....
Will you pass the tv remote so I can call your father?....May I have the camera that I write checks out of? Will you bring me the coffeemaker that I switch channels with?
Now it is a big joke and we all do it deliberatly...
Oh n don`t EVEN get me started on using the right name for a specific child....I have to go through half the list before I can pin the right label on em....
Recommended Posts
Top Posters In This Topic
34
13
22
44
Popular Days
Feb 9
27
Feb 8
20
Feb 3
19
Jan 20
12
Top Posters In This Topic
excathedra 34 posts
Belle 13 posts
outandabout 22 posts
Ham 44 posts
Popular Days
Feb 9 2005
27 posts
Feb 8 2005
20 posts
Feb 3 2005
19 posts
Jan 20 2005
12 posts
Belle
LOL! Raf, that happens to me when I'm talking to someone "back home"....only it isn't a Bronx accent, it's a thick southern drawl.
Lots of prairie dogging goes on in my cube farm because the boss doesn't let us play music or anything, so you can hear every little peep in someone else's cube. You know who's fighting with their spouse, who's kid broke curfew, who had beans for dinner.....
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Belle
ex, here's a rundown on the cube farm techno-talk for ya:
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or 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: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream onlyto get screwed and die in the end.
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.)
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.
SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Anna Nichole show or the Bachelor is a prime example.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational 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.
404: Someone who's clueless. >From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" (meaning that the requested document, like the person's brain, could not be located.)
GENERICA: Features of the North American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.
CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust (leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.)
Link to comment
Share on other sites
dmiller
Link to comment
Share on other sites
excathedra
belle those are fantastic !!!!!!!!!!
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Steve!
ADMINISTRIVIA - the little details of administration that are trivial yet nonetheless must be maintained.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Steve!
CLM - Career Limiting Move. Like when you criticize the decision of a VP while in an elevator without realizing that said VP is standing directly behind you.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
waterbuffalo
He, he, Belle!
Link to comment
Share on other sites
mstar1
those were good Belle!
More things you dont want to know about me:
I brain glitch every once in awhile--
This week I waited in line at the post office to buy stamps, which I did, then I put the letters in the slot without putting the stamps on them (D'OH!)
I was writing out checks a few months back-I usually write them out fast to get them out of the way-i was a little distracted , at the date part before I knew it I wrote in 1979---
:o-->
Am i that far gone??
I have no idea where that came from-I think I hit a timewarp for a second.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
That's not too bad. Sometimes, I forget what I come into a room to look for. I often have to go back out and in several times in the hopes of jarring my memory of what it was I was supposed to remember.
I wonder what the neighbors think..
Link to comment
Share on other sites
outandabout
I do that all the time, especially now that we're in a two story house - go upstairs to do something, see something else, do that, forget why I came up, go back down, remember, go back up......
As for speaker phones at work, I don't mind people using them because I'm nosey.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Belle
That's why I'll NEVER live in a 2 story house, O&A! LOL!
Those conversations are boring it's the ones on the cell phones that are the best! The cube mate in front of me has his so loud I CAN hear both sides of those conversations and let me tell you......
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
Yep. Some of the "best" I've heard.. well, I've heard almost everything.. people walking down the streets talking in the darn things, like there is nobody else listening.
I've heard stuff from talk about their current STD to arguments with almost ex spouse who withdrew all the money out of the accounts.. all this stuff right out on the street..
Cripe. I think THEY are giving us ten or more things we REALLY don't want to know..
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Belle
LOL! Ham, I once had to listen to a whole conversation this girl had about her boyfriend cheating on her. After she got off the phone I walked over, sat down beside her and offered her my advice. LOL!
She looked at me like I was crazy at first and so I told her that if she was going to air her dirty laundry where others could hear it then she should be willing to listen to what others have to say about it.
:D-->
BTW, I told her to dump the b@st@rd.....
Link to comment
Share on other sites
coolchef1248 @adelphia.net
this is bad
while in the grocery store the other this dim wit is on his ear phone in the aisle where tampons ect are asking his wife {or whatevere} does she want the ones with wings on them
stupid imo
Link to comment
Share on other sites
CoolWaters
Tampons have wings these days? Why? Oh...never mind...I think I get it now...hehehehe.
;)-->
Link to comment
Share on other sites
rascal
Talking about forgetting what you came into the room for, reminded me of my trouble.
I miss name things....I will ask the kid to hand me my camera when I really want the tv remote, or the phone when I really mean my keys...tell the kids to load up in the dish washer ..instead of the car...it used to really scare me...but now I simply qualify every statement....
Will you pass the tv remote so I can call your father?....May I have the camera that I write checks out of? Will you bring me the coffeemaker that I switch channels with?
Now it is a big joke and we all do it deliberatly...
Oh n don`t EVEN get me started on using the right name for a specific child....I have to go through half the list before I can pin the right label on em....
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
Well, it must be: tithing. We all KNOW that tithing brings wings to tampons to life, or something like that..
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
Heck, I forget. Just wait a minute, and see if I can remember to walk back in the room.
Link to comment
Share on other sites
CoolWaters
Ham, you crack me up! Are you married? Hehehehe
;)-->
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
Married, married. Lesseee.. heh heh.
Acually, at one time..
Link to comment
Share on other sites
CoolWaters
So you're not gonna answer me straight out? OK. I'm married anyway...so it was all a fanta...er...joke...
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
Cool Waters, your humor is honestly appreciated.
No, I am not married, now. I was for twenty five years..
Anyway, I was married when "wings" just started coming in fashion, heh heh.
All that tithing paid off..
Link to comment
Share on other sites
CoolWaters
Ham...'wings' the group...or 'wings' the accessory?
;)-->
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ham
Heh heh. Well, the group came on the scene before I was the twinkle in some moglets PFAL eye..
Nope. the accessory. And boy do they make those dern things fly..
Whoops, must've gotten the wrong kind of mushroom at the store..
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.