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Rating: PG
Quality: (Quality: Unrated)
"batmobiling"
Putting up emotional shields from the retracting armor that
covers the batmobile as in "she started talking marriage and he
started batmobiling"
"prairie dogging"
In companies where everyone has a cubicle something happens and
everyone pops up to look
"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"
"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"
"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"
"high dome"
Egghead, scientist, PhD
"irritainment"
Annoying but you can't stop watching, e.g. the O.J. trial
"meatspace"
The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also "carbon
community" "facetime" "F2F" "RL"
"percussive maintenance"
The fine art of whacking a device to get it working
"siliwood"
The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers;
also "hollywired"
"square headed girlfriend" (boyfriend)
Computer
"treeware"
Manuals and documentation
"umfriend"
Sexual relationship; "this is Dale, my... um... friend"
"yuppie food coupons"
Twenty dollar bills from an ATM
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