Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Of Slangs & Jargons

British
  1. AC/DC- Bisexual
  2. Adam and Eve- Believe , I don't Adam and Eve it !
  3. Apples and pears- stairs ( remember the song "To My Valentine"... If apples were pears and peaches were plums and the rose had a different name...if tigers were bears and fingers were thumbs ...I'd love you just the same ...oh! those teenage years :P)
  4. brass monkey- very cold (weather or the air temperature)
American
  1. Steel monkeys- This is where not being a sissy comes in. Steel monkeys as they are affectionately called, have to walk the steel girders in order to put the steel beams in place. They walk the beams a hundred feet in the air. One false step and it’s like trying to fly with one wing.
  2. MP3Jingn. the live mixing or playing of recorded music in a dance club or other public space using a portable digital audio device such as an Apple iPod

Jargons

  1. ambimouseterous- Able to use a mouse with either hand.
  2. airplane rule: n. “Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane.” By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one basket, after making sure that you've built a really good basket
  3. alpha geek: n.
    [from animal ethologists' alpha male] The most technically accomplished or skillful person in some implied context. “Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek here.”
  4. address harvester: n.
    A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses. Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling address directories. Most, unfortunately, are run by miscreants compiling address lists to
    spam. Address harvesters can be foiled by a teergrube.
  5. Bad and Wrong: adj.
    [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly executed
  6. Blue Screen of Death: n.
    [common] This term is closely related to the older
    Black Screen of Death but much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows, misbehaving applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death, sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when this happens. (Commonly abbreviated BSOD.) The following entry from the Salon Haiku Contest, seems to have predated popular use of the term:
    ????????Windows?NT?crashed.????????I?am?the?Blue?Screen?of?Death????????No?one?hears?your?screams.


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