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Conference turris::womannotes-v2

Title:ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 2 --ARCHIVE
Notice:V2 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open.
Moderator:REGENT::BROOMHEAD
Created:Thu Jan 30 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 30 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1105
Total number of notes:36379

405.0. ""Right-on!" Definitions" by SLOVAX::HASLAM (Creativity Unlimited) Wed Jan 18 1989 18:51

    This topic is dedicated to classic or "very appropriate" definitions
    that you find amusing or "right on"!
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405.1Technical DocumentationSLOVAX::HASLAMCreativity UnlimitedWed Jan 18 1989 18:536
    Technical Documentation as defined by a college librarian:
    
    "Sominex in print."
    
    
    :) Barb
405.2AccountingSLOVAX::HASLAMCreativity UnlimitedWed Jan 18 1989 18:586
    My personal definition of accounting...
    
    Accounting is like eating crackers in the middle of the Sahara with
    no water.
    
    Barb
405.3CSC32::WOLBACHWed Jan 18 1989 20:198
    
    
    One who misuses words when speaking, or cannot get a point
    across vocally :
    
    Verbal Illiteracy
    
    
405.4Is this definition all wet?VMSSG::MAGOONVillage idiotWed Jan 18 1989 21:583
	Boat: a hole in the water surrounded by fiberglass into
which you throw money.
405.5LEZAH::BOBBITTpersistence of visionThu Jan 19 1989 10:2617
    Documenting new products is like changing all four tires on a moving
    car.....
    
    or, said about an egotistical person, "if I could buy them for what
    I think they're worth, and sell them for what they think they're
    worth, I'd be very very wealthy..."
    
    falling asleep over your books the night before the big exam was
    called "learning by osmosis"

    particularly cute are also:
    
    caterpillars:  upholstered worms
    rhubarb:  celery with high blood pressure    
    
    -Jody
    
405.6Whereas we...REGENT::BROOMHEADDon't panic -- yet.Thu Jan 19 1989 12:095
    Requirement for amiable use of IBM equipment:
    
    System-friendly user.
    
    						Ann B.
405.7Domestic Engineer my foot!DISCVR::SECRETARYThu Jan 19 1989 12:324
    When frowned upon by others because you work at home, inform the
    ignoramus...
    
    The President of the United States works at home!
405.8A definitive descriptionMEWVAX::AUGUSTINEPurple power!Thu Jan 19 1989 12:436
    I recently heard this definition:
    
    Elf is a distributed program whose purpose is to print a message
    on your screen that says 
    
    "Currently no ELF Servers available to process user requests"
405.9HAMSTR::IRLBACHERFri Jan 20 1989 11:459
    I was told this once by an Episcopal priest--a definition
    of the difference between death and divorce.
    
    Although the sorrow could be the same, in death one was
    assured of where the body was.  In divorce, too often the
    body kept turning up.
    
    M
    
405.10babyUSEM::DONOVANMon Jan 23 1989 10:394
    BABY: A tiny bundle of joy who can make grown ups act like
          blithering idiots.
    
    
405.11"Because it feels so good when I stop. . ."HANDY::MALLETTBarking Spider r meThu Jan 26 1989 11:309
    
    PROGRAM -- 1. (noun) A magic spell cast over a computer to enable 
    		  it to turn your input into error messages.   
    
    	       2. (v.t.) A pastime similar to banging your head against 
    		  a wall but with fewer opportunities for reward.
    
    Steve (with thanx to network friends who sent the above)
    
405.12Owned by two catsSCRUZ::CORDES_JAClogging is my life!Tue Feb 14 1989 22:108
    CAT:  A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human
          beings.
          
    	  --Oliver Herford
    

    
    Jan    
405.13A REAL MANWILLEE::HAMMONDThu Mar 02 1989 15:173
    A REAL MAN
    "IT TAKES MORE THAN A TATTOO AND THE RIGHT CIGARETTE"
    - BOSTON (THE BAND)