DirtyWaterbury's definitions

unsubscribe

a simple, rude, one word response to an unnecessarily long email thread, usually evolving into an unwarranted tangential conversation.

Did you see Wayne going on and on in that email thread this morning? Who cares...unsubscribe.

by DirtyWaterbury September 3, 2016

email fork

When your coworker does not respond to the latest reply of an email thread, the discussion becomes forked between his reply and the latest. The fork is more severe when an email volley is accumulating participants, and you get left out. in which case, you'll hope someone will loop you in. the fork could be unintentional if the forker is just a slow-ass chicken pecker. but if he has a rep of being a habitual threadjacker, it is probably not

To avoid an email fork of the thread with a client, Becky sent Chad a DM that she was drafting a response to the client's latest questions.

by DirtyWaterbury March 12, 2019

no pisser

A task so urgent that not even a bathroom break is possible until it is complete.

He knew that correcting the mistake in the (soon to be delivered) presentation slides would be a no pisser.

by DirtyWaterbury February 11, 2019

break-out day

first warm sunny day on a college campus during the spring semester (typically March) where most females first break out their tank tops and the like to flaunt their pale cleavage. First day where all the white chicks lay out on random spots on the grass trying start their base tan, but get burnt.

Dude, I bet all these chickens get sunburned on break-out day this afternoon. I love break-out day... check out all these fun bags!

by DirtyWaterbury September 7, 2016

hit by the bus

Phrase used when evaluating how much risk exists in a (software) project, more specifically, if project success is too dependent upon any one principal team member. Closely related to "bus factor".

What if Eugene is hit by the bus, who will approve Git pull requests?

by DirtyWaterbury March 8, 2019

loose off the goose

buzzed or drunk. typically off of Grey Goose Vodka (bottle service at the club).

I dont know what I was thinking when I said that, I must have been loose off the goose.

by DirtyWaterbury October 20, 2016

prius pride

beaming with the pride of driving a Prius. Typically wont shut up about how much MPG they get. Perhaps making smug comments that are rooted in thoughts that they are better person than you because they are “saving the environment.”

Consumed in their Prius Pride, they are oblivious to the reality of everyone else on highway laughing at them for driving such a fugly, small, under-powered rollerskate of a car.

by DirtyWaterbury November 23, 2016