Monday, July 13, 2009

Urban slang

One of my favourite websites at the moment is www.urbandictionary.com

I like to use it when I'm surfing the web and I see stuff like "Ahhemmgee, this pic is totes embar. But, beeteedubs, you look totes presh!" - WTF?

Here are some of the gems I've found recently that resonate with me:

Air jerk: Making a 'jerking off' motion with one's hand to express disgust, disinterest or disbelief, while simulatenously rolling one's eyes. Similar to concept of playing air guitar.

I love to do this when talking about someone I think is a douche....which leads to my next one:

Douchebaguette: A female douchebag. A woman who exhibits characteristics of a douchebag.

Just 'cos I'm in Canada

Running latte: Showing up late to work because you stopped for coffee along the way.

If only it was a flat white....

Brown chicken, brown cow: an onomatopaeic imitation of the guitar riff commonly heard in 1970's porn movies. For example, Jim: "Hey, where are Abby and Jake?" Matt: "Brown chicken, brown cow."

I just thought this one was classic. Mainly because I had to say it out loud at my desk at work in order to fully understand it.

Alt-tabbin': An act of quickly switching the current application to something work-appropriate when the boss walks in. For example, "My boss almost caught me on Facebook at work, good thing I was Alt-Tabbin"

Because this is what I do for 7 hours a day.

Facebook binge: The act of going on Facebook 'just to check it for a few minutes' and suddenly finding that it's 3 or 4 hours later and you have no idea where your afternoon went. Commonly occurs when 'quickly checking Facebook' is used as a break in studying/tidying/other necessary but dull tasks.

What can I say....

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