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- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37RE: crop dusting, you've gotta be pretty brave to try that sort of thing while on the move, unless you have an iron sphincter. I mean you need serious skills to regulate your O-ring at just the right level to release the poot while avoiding making enough noise to give yourself away. Sure, I can pull it off while sitting down or standing in one position, but while *walking*? That's some serious Fart Jedi *****.
- da5idblacksun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I'll add some that are popular in my office:
ping: to try and contact someone as in "i'll ping you later".
clock cycles: free time to do work as in "do you have a few free clock cycles to work on project x?"
bandwidth: see "clock cycles" - sugardaddy4242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31"CROP DUSTING"
Hats off to the person who thought that one up. - airencracken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29When my buddy or I are running slow, we use the term to be "on dial-up"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33Where do you work? Nerds, Geeks, and Beyond?
- da5idblacksun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"Chips and Salsa" = Hardware and Software
LOL - burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17This is a good site and all, but I think....
oh crap, I just blew my buffer.
This is great. Dugg. - olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15luckily offices still exist.
- justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Hey - Cool article but I noticed a typo in the headline - the word "funny" got stuck in there by accident somehow.
- tooktheredpill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Crop dusting just takes practice. Try it at home for a while before attempting to do it at work.
p.s. also works well at Wal-Mart - G33k0ft3chz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16My favorite is: Betamaxed - When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in “Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market”
Yes I know this will probably be dugg down or I will get bombed by MS fanboys which will begin a MS vs MAC flame war, but this is just too funny.
My second favorite term:
Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn’t work out obsessively. Or:
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.” - transeunte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11MS fanboys!? Is there such thing?
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Both of you: Shut the ***** up before you start the next World War Web.
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The key to crop dusting is to walk by someone who looks more likely to fart than you so they take the look 'n' blame from other shoppers. Good choices include fat kids, old people and pregnant women.
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Ninja farts!
- diligent1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I dunno, I been working in an IT office for years and I don't think I've heard a single one of those used - ever.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6yes, many are just not funny and quite a few seem like they're just made up on the spot. bookmark? chips and salsa? real geeks don't use slang like this... maybe douchebag wannabes of the "blogosphere" or something equally stupid, but i've never heard anyone say this stuff.
like seriously: "Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error." any real geek knows that the response has nothing to do with an "ohnosecond". we just say "that's interesting", or "*****", depending on the magnitude of the mistake.
one of the few that has real world applications: "It’s a Feature - From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over." they even pointed out the origins. hell, i've even used this. - Tawni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My office actually uses the terms cube farm and dilberted. Thankfully I am in the cube farm but have never been Dilberted.
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Just curious, what do you meen by that?
- Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Same here, the only one I have ever heard was Brain Fart, and they turned it into a good thing? WTF is up with that?
- Tech_Paradox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Fun stuff - and totally lifted from Wired magazine. Every single one of those terms has at one time or another appeared in Wired's "Jargon Watch" column, but it's still neat to see them surviving on the web since jargonwatch.com is now long since dead...
- MikeEnIke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ah, I do the cropdusting in the halls of my highschool. That's the best, you get immature kids who immediately begin blaming eachother while over reacting to the grueling stench. :D
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Holy crap, man! It was an EXAMPLE.
- WarMace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Chair Trap -- When you trap yourself in your office chair by accidentally hitting the pneumatic seat adjustment, causing it to drop suddenly, thereby locking your legs under your chair.. (From http://www.rockymountain.com/ref_microspeak.htm )
- xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3404 is the most commonly used I guess
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Anyone who enjoyed this should check out Microserfs or JPod, both by Douglas Coupland.
- JaiHaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4holy crap these are great.
where i work alot of the women have FUPA'S
so we refer to a belt as a FuBra
"she totally missed one of the loops on her FuBra." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4To see the funny parts, you have to view the page source. First, in complete defiance of logic, the whole thing uses tables. Next, there's the code for the annoying dancing ads that you blocked with adblock (an automatic defensive measure whenever I visit a link described as "funny".) Finally, there's the Javascript block at the bottom which automaticly shows the copyright for the current year - defensively Y2K-checked, of course.
For bonus chuckles, run it through copyscape.com What's the oldest living copy of this list *you* can find? Can you find any places where this list is posted *without* the dancing ads?
Pulling it out of it's original posting in Usenet is left as an exercise for the reader. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Umm, are you thinking of Pebkac?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You are right (see my post downthread), I knew I'd had this one emailed to me half a dozen times before. It still has that stale Compuserve smell. The "yuppies" and "World Wide Wait" references are a dead giveaway.
But I'm having fun treating it like a net detective game. Copyscape.com coughed up older postings right away, but follow every link though I can, the origins so far remain lost in time. I'm shocked that even textfiles.com let me down - it seems just right for the end of the BBS era. I'm interrogating the wayback machine for wired archives, but I have faith that even wired won't be the end of the trail.
It's amazing what I'll go to to avoid writing my PHP code. - RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And a bit further down you may encounter Moose Knuckles.
- p0ss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeh prairie doggin has both meanings, but the little poop coming out is also known as "turtling" like a turtle comming out of its shell
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've done something similar except in reverse, where I put my hand on the handrest, then the handrest+hand gradually slide under my desk, then I try to get out of my chair and all the pneumatic force goes into my hand. Trust me, it hurts.
- gdogg1078, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Funny, I didn't see "Homerowed!" anywhere on there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sreRSzeSTKE
- stefan41, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i must be getting old. i remember the first time that most of these were printed in wired and the like in the early 90s...
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A few favs around the IT department...
Problem In Chair Not In Computer (PICNIC) Shawns at a PICNIC right now so he'll be a while...
ID 10 T error... That nurse that called totally had an ID 10 T error. (IDIOT)
- kaplanfx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Dunno about you guys, but where I'm from "Prarie Dogging" means something totally different. I assumed it would be the same considering it was referenced along with the farting story, but no, they went with some lame G rated version.
-Kap - kaplanfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, but funny none the less. Sometimes we also reffer to that area as the "gunt". You figure it out ;)
-Kap - fatas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This was the funniest and the truest.
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, ***** over everything and then leaves. - jeaguilar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wouldn't 404 refer to someone who is not around, not someone who is clueless? 204, 206, or even 413 would be a better for choice for clueless.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This one's dated 1997:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ian/Public/Humor/lingo - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bob? Sorry, he 500'd over a year ago now....
- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think cube farm is extremely common.
- wheeldawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hilarious. Old, maybe so, but I hadn't seen most of them yet.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've actually heard someone talk about 'chips and salsa' before in a computer repair center.
- humanaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, this is about as funny as Sinbad.
Not the comedian.. the sailor. But then again, he was never meant to be funny. - mjjack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought the references to Java Applets, WWW, and the Net were dead give-aways. What is this, 1997? Oops, right, looks like it is. There's a mention of AOL in there too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would agree that if you used four span tags together before your div, you'd probably be better off using tables.
- airencracken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Curious Turtle or Touching Cloth. Both are abbreviated CT or TC.
- uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Outstanding!
I fully intend to use "Chips and Salsa" as well as Yuppie food coupons.
I should also add that I once had a seagull manager. Although, being that I live in Pittsburgh, maybe it should be Pigeon Manager. -
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