You can't be cool if you're using outdated lingo.
Here's the latest from the corporate and Silicon
Valley jungles.
"batmobiling"
putting up emotional shields (from the retracting armor that
covers the batmobile, as in "she started talking marriage and
he started batmobiling")
"epilepsy"
afflicts those with vibrating pagers characterized by sudden
spasms, goofy facial expressions and loss of speech
"betamaxed"
when a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but
better marketed competition, as in "Microsoft betamax
Apple right out ofthe market"
"blowing your buffer"
losing your train of thought
"cobweb"
a Www site that never changes
"elvis year"
the peak year of popularity, as in "1993 was Barney the
dinosaur's elvis year"
"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"
"treeware"
manuals and documentation
"umfriend"
sexual relationship, as in "this is Dale, my...um...friend"
"world wide wait"
WWW