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"Stop stalking yourself" - what I have to tell myself when I get in the habit of checking my e-mail/voicemail/website excessively when I'm waiting for love letters/positive feedback/pats on the back.
Overtired = drunk
Came loose = really drunk
Time traveling = really really drunk
Cocoa butter = marijuana
Can't get my Barbie's clothes on = having big and frustrating trouble getting something designed
When I was a teenager, my then girlfriend would ask me if I want to "help her fold laundry" which meant "go down to the laundry room and "do it", if you know what I mean.
These days, I think everything sounds like a euphemism.
About 15 years ago I worked for a small company that didn't provide parking, so you had to park on the street, and most of it was 2-hour or 3-hour spots. So, saying, "I have to move my car," was an accepted excuse for leaving any situation. I mostly used it to get out of really boring staff meetings -- I'd just look at my watch, look startled, and make apologetic faces as I left the room and headed for 10 minutes of blissful freedom. So for me, "I have to move my car" means "I gotta get out of this room for a bit."
"Bears in the server room" describes the cognitive dissonance highly technical people experience when a radical or unexpected, possibly threatening, event occurs.
A bear is slowly tearing apart the server room. The CTO walks by and sees this happening, thinks "huh, this might be a problem" and wanders off to find one of the managers. Middle Manager is at his desk.
CTO walks up and asks him about the bear.
"I was going to call building management and see if they knew anything about bears," says Middle Manager. "But I have to finish this report for the CEO right now."
"So where is the Systems Administrator?" asks the CTO.
"He isn't in yet but I think the server monitors have paged him," says the Middle Manager. "I'll call him in a few minutes."
"Okay, that works," says the CTO and wanders off to his office.
The phone rings at the Middle Manager's desk and it's the CEO. "I can't get my mail," says the CEO. "Huh, I can't get mine either," says the Middle Manager. "I'll let the Admin know. I need to call him about something else."
And we just began using "snakes on a plan" as code for things that are about to go impossibly wrong at work. There are two of us that know the meaning, however.
yes, well, that might have been freudian typoking - things going wrong at work typically involve plans. Sad note: snakes on a plane is just so far wrong that I will be watching it at the drive-in. Possibly more than once. Possibly as the non-designated driver.
not really a euphemism, but "fax it to me" and "hey, why don't you fax it to me" -- used when a specific friend throws away money (or is talking about doing so) on something they never ever use, like a fax machine for the house.
to draw the curtains = discrete nap at work
she-bucket lap dance = Ursula the cat's full blown mission to get in my lap, then growl when bored and dissatisfied with said lap.
f*ck me butter = any really good food
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