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.
Of Movies ...
Some movies that I have an interest in this month -- I will not get to them all. X-Men III: The Last Stand -- 'nuff said! No Logo - Brands, Globalization & Resistance -- based on the book of the same title, this movie is playing at the Bloor Cinema on June 29 & 30. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days -- the story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine , who, as part of the White Rose, was dedicated to the downfall of the Third Reich. The movie plays at the Bloor Cinema from June 25-27. Thank You For Smoking -- playing at the Bloor Cinema from June 23-37. Tsotsi -- a look at life in the ghettos outside of present-day Johannesburg, South Africa, through Tsotsi, a young thug. There is redemption for Tsotsi, and the film won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It plays at the Bloor Cinema on June 14 & 16. Why We Fight -- a documentary that explores why America goes to war and the role of the military-industrial complex. This played today at the ...
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