Green Weenies and Due Diligence: Inside Business Jargon--Raw, Serious and Sometimes Funny.Green Weenies 1. weenie - [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less amusing version of BIFF that infests many BBSes. The typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose handle derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among sysops, "the weenie problem" refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden flamage weenies tend to spew all over a newly-discovered BBS. Compare spod, computer geek, terminal junkie. and Due Diligence: Inside Business Jargon--Raw, Serious and Sometimes Funny. By Ron Sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the underside of the head. It also has widely separated rows of heavy guard scales, four barbels or feelers that hang below the head and help to locate food, and a gas bladder from which isinglass is made.. Mike French & Co., 188 pages. $28.95 Quick: define any or all of these terms sometimes used in business--"long pole in the tent," "deal toy," "sharing teeth," "bag of snakes." Don't look for any help here. To learn what these and hundreds of other weird, silly and amusing terms mean, you'll have to pick up Ron Sturgeon's book. It's literally a dictionary, divided by general subject--management and strategic issues, sales and marketing, etc.--of the phrases that the office cognoscenti bandy bandy /ban·dy/ (band´e) bowed or bent in an outward curve. about around the water cooler. It isn't all entertainment: some chapters are filled mostly with commonly understood business terms. But the fun is in the offbeat. Abetted wonderfully by drawings from the artist of the macabre, Gahan Wilson, this book is a guilty pleasure, pure and simple. |
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