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1. "batmobiling"
Putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers the
Batmobile as in "she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling"
2. "beepilepsy"
Aflicts those with vibrating pagers characterized by sudden spasms, goofy
facial expressions and loss of speech
3. "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"
4. "blowing your buffer"
Losing your train of thought
5. "cobweb"
A WWW site that never changes
6. "Elvis year"
The peak year of popularity as in "1993 was Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year"
7. "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"
8. "going postal"
Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on
shooting rampages
9. "high dome"
Egghead, scientist, PhD
10."irritainment"
Annoying but you can't stop watching e.g. the O.J. trial
11."meatspace"
The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also "carbon community,"
"facetime," "F2F," "RL"
13."percussive maintenance"
The fine art of whacking a device to get it working
14."prairie dogging"
In companies where everyone has a cubicle, when something happens and
everyone pops up to look
15."ribs 'n' dick"
A budget with no fat as in "we've got ribs 'n' dick and we're supposed to
find 20K for memory upgrades"
16."salmon day"
Swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end
17."siliwood"
The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers also
"hollywired"
18."treeware"
Manuals and documentation
19."umfriend"
Sexual relationship as in "this is Dale, my...um...friend"
20."world wide wait"
WWW
21."yuppie food coupons"
Twenty dollar bills from an ATM
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