Salmon Days
From this past week's Saturday Toronto Star, comes a few emerging catch phrases that made me laugh out loud. Here's the best of the bunch:
Seagull Manager: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Salmon Day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the stuffing out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Adminisphere: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a big mistake.
Crop Dusting: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a cube farm (office filled with cubicles) then secretly enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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