Tuesday - June 7th, 2005

[kev]

Today I was a "bringer" (you'll see this defined more in the topic). Today it was a turkey on wheat with american cheese sandwich / chips / fully leaded Coke / three white fudge Chips Ahoy cookies

Topic:

What unique terms/phrases are used by you on a daily basis with your co-workers that is not business related, but that only you and you co-workers would know outside of work if you met up elsewhere?

My examples:

My buddies and I here at the office have a couple of operative phrases/words that we use to identify each other as to whether or not we brought lunch in from home for the day. We either ask, "Do you have bringage?", or we say to either other, "I'm a bringer", or just "Bringage" as a response to the daily lunch question.

At one of my other jobs, we ate almost all the time in the office's cafeteria. At that job, and especially while sitting there at lunch, we had code names for all of the finer women and some of the more interesting people who we only knew by physical sightings (none of us knew them) who would roll through the check out line. It always made for a fun lunchtime or random sightings in the hall to be followed by a quick phone call or email to our group like "Dude, I saw Crystal Gail (she had long brown hair) in the hall just a minute ago, DUDE!". To use some examples here on BaM, one could say "Check it, there's "Thwapper" or there's "Casper" ", therefore denoting the sightings of Jo and Frankie. That's cheating of course, because we already know Jo's name and her thwapping and Frankie's name and his favorite guitar's name too, but you get the idea.

kev

[jas]

The default - turkey, etc. I am a dull person.

Ok, I can think of an example: there was a woman in my office years ago who was both spiritually obnoxious and physically repulsive. We used to drag our left legs across the ground while holding an imaginary steering wheel - a gesture imitating (stay with me here) Fred Flintstone driving his car in further reference to how we guessed her husband added extra ooomph to his car to get away when they separated. We use the gesture to this day to refer to her.

Nice, huh?

-John

[johnreardon]

Turkey for me as well, along with the compulsory Lucozade.

Current job tends to be short projects at many sites, so you don't really get down to inventing codewords with colleagues.

I tend to keep it simple using phrases like 'I would', 'I definitely would' or in social events, such as at last night's jam session, 'Don't fancy yours'.:)

[darial]

I had a meatball sub. Ok, but not great.

Now, phrases:

"Here, let me chew that for you" - in refrence to any sort of unwanted, or especially insultingly unnecissary offer of help.

"Second Gun Syndrome" or "SGS" - lots of people at work shoot, and this has been coined for the tendency to buy something totally impractical as a second gun - anything full auto, made by Barrett, or chambered in 50GI, 50AE, .440corbon, .441 SuperMag, or anything made by magnum research qualifies. This has also been applied to impractical second cars, like the guy who had a hatchback civic, and then went out and bought a new viper with a pair of garret turbos and about $50k in engine work.

[TRandy16]

We have a customer whose top row of teeth stick almost straight out...we call him "The Rake"...we signal his arrival to each other by putting our hands just below our noses with the fingers sticking straight out....


We have another customer who wears the most fake-looking "rug" you could ever imagine on a member of the male persuasion....when he walks in we all start silently "adjusting" our hair as if we were wearing such a device....

Then there's the code we have whenever a tall, good-looking woman walks in the door...."Climb Mount Nikita"...

Gee what a bunch of sophisticated gents we are, eh?

Oh yeah..I ate "out" today...Sonic chicken strip dinner with a super-sized diet limeade....one of my guilty pleasures...

[Big Mike]

For me, bad day. So blew off the program, and went to the only decent Mexican restaurant in the half/horse town I work in. Carnitas Burrito with sour cream "wet style" with green (tomatillo?) sauce. Chips, Salsa, and a coke. I REALLY wanted to add a Tecate to go with it, but beer and my work attitude weren't mixing today.


Not much like that kev. Other than when the head of our parent company calls or emails it's, "Got a call/email from the butthead...or from Napolean"

The only other, is in reference to a former employee. So taking too long at lunch, doing something half assed, or god for bid, look like you're sleeping is forever "Pulling a Silas"

[irwcustom]

Great lunch for me today! Chicken satay skewers, Thai king prawns with basil and sweet chilli, Singapore noodles.


At work at the moment, it's a bit 'professional' - too professional for my liking. At my last company it was much more fun. I miss it:(

For nicknames we had The 'melon smuggler' was one that springs to mind (what a set they were!) Baby bird was a girl who had a mouth like a gaping baby birds beak (it's a cruel world), 'Touchy feely' was a (single) secretary who used to like talking to me and would get so close, she was like a cat that liked to rub itself up against your legs hence the second name 'feeline frisky'.

A game we would sometimes play was to whistle, sing or hum a tune - the more corny the better. We then used to score points throughout the day when another person had been 'got' by your tune. It's amazing how a tune gets into your subconcious.

[Donk70]

A burger and tater wedges for me.

We used to refer to my old boss (whom everyone hated with a passion) as "Dad". We would get up from our desk and if someone said that he was going to call or go see dad, we knew who he meant.

[redmax61]

Meatloaf muffins leftover from last night. (Watch it buddy, my 10 year old daughter made them).

I'm in the Navy fer cryin' out loud. I live in Acronym hell. Most of them, I can't do here, but let's just say that there's an acronym or silly name for everything.

Here's the cleanest one I can think of:
"Squeet" = Let's go eat.

[Elgreco]

Late lunch but we had our first batch of blue crabs. Plan to start catching them myself every couple of days. Yummmmmm!

I don't work, so I'm afraid that I can't contribute to todays topic. :(


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[digisequencer]

Meat-filled paprika with rice...

We have an absolutely annoying colleage. Problem is he has quite a high position, but almost never understands anything, is making lots of mistakes and is talking horrible nonsense to everyone on the phone. His last name starts with "K" so whenever he is up to a new crash we just say "I get the K-Syndrome again"...