Used to describe the groups of middle-aged women who run the administration in most institutions and corporations.
Origin: Admin + menopause. Administration/bureaucracy is thought to have been invented during the middle ages by crusaders and explorers to ensure their wives' fidelity while they were gone, by keeping them busy with useless paperwork, e.g. "I'm going to rescue the Holy Land darling, by the time I get back I want you to alphabetize this list of the serfs and cross reference it against a list of our debtors, graphed against the last ten years' harvests, etc. etc."
These tasks would keep the wives so busy they had no time for lovers. By the time the men came home, the women were so engrossed in the admin they kept doing it and passed it on to the next generation, believing this made up work to be of vital importance, an attitude which persists to this day.
Origin: Admin + menopause. Administration/bureaucracy is thought to have been invented during the middle ages by crusaders and explorers to ensure their wives' fidelity while they were gone, by keeping them busy with useless paperwork, e.g. "I'm going to rescue the Holy Land darling, by the time I get back I want you to alphabetize this list of the serfs and cross reference it against a list of our debtors, graphed against the last ten years' harvests, etc. etc."
These tasks would keep the wives so busy they had no time for lovers. By the time the men came home, the women were so engrossed in the admin they kept doing it and passed it on to the next generation, believing this made up work to be of vital importance, an attitude which persists to this day.
The adminopause have called another useless meeting.
The adminopause have got me so busy filling out forms I can't get anything done today.
Unemployment is down thanks to the growing adminopause sector.
The adminopause have got me so busy filling out forms I can't get anything done today.
Unemployment is down thanks to the growing adminopause sector.
by GWMcL July 10, 2010
Get the adminopausemug. An ad or notice printed with phone numbers written vertically at the bottom on tearable tags and tacked up on noticeboards, shop windows, etc.
Named for the phone number strips' resemblance to a jellyfish's tentacles, and because the pages appear to be floating on the wall/noticeboard/window like jellyfish in the ocean.
Also known as space invaders, especially when there get to be too many of these notices in one place.
Named for the phone number strips' resemblance to a jellyfish's tentacles, and because the pages appear to be floating on the wall/noticeboard/window like jellyfish in the ocean.
Also known as space invaders, especially when there get to be too many of these notices in one place.
by GWMcL December 13, 2010
Get the jellyfishmug. by GWMcL September 26, 2010
Get the confettiquettemug. To take someone in and be hospitable to them, usually against their will. The reverse of overstaying your welcome, when you just want to pop in but then you have to sit down and catch up and everything else.
Bro: Where you bin dude?
Dude: I just went to drop the camera off at Ted's but he was home and he made me come in and have a cup of tea and then he talked at me for hours, I couldn't get away.
Bro: Dude, sounds like you got hospitabilized!
Dude: I just went to drop the camera off at Ted's but he was home and he made me come in and have a cup of tea and then he talked at me for hours, I couldn't get away.
Bro: Dude, sounds like you got hospitabilized!
by GWMcL October 07, 2010
Get the hospitabilizemug. Verb, to schindler. Having regrets of the "If only..." and "I should have..." kind.
From the movie "Schindler's List".
From the movie "Schindler's List".
John: I should have left a bigger tip.
Mary: Your tip was generous enough, stop schindlering.
or
John: If only she didn't sleep around so much I'd marry her.
Mary: Get on with your life. Don't schindler yourself to death!
Mary: Your tip was generous enough, stop schindlering.
or
John: If only she didn't sleep around so much I'd marry her.
Mary: Get on with your life. Don't schindler yourself to death!
by GWMcL September 09, 2007
Get the schindlermug. 
A stronger version of "you can't be serious", which can be subtle enough to pass without notice or delivered straight.
Boss: I'm cutting your hours back cos you slack off.
Jane: You cunt be serious.
Jack: I'm leaving you to marry your sister.
Shirley: Surely you cunt be serious.
Jack: I am serious, so don't call me Shirley.
Jane: You cunt be serious.
Jack: I'm leaving you to marry your sister.
Shirley: Surely you cunt be serious.
Jack: I am serious, so don't call me Shirley.
by GWMcL February 20, 2011
Get the you cunt be seriousmug.