"this is not a drill message" -- implying the following messages are not simulation or exercise related message but of vital and usually life/death importance
"Charlie one five, Zulu four zero, no duff message, Zimmerman is down, Zimmerman is down"
"Zulu four zero, charlie one five, medic on the way"
The bureaucrats (usually men) in the Government who make you go "GAH" every time you have a reasonable request denied because of red tape.
Derived from "government"
The Gahmen refused to allow us to carry out urgent repairs on our building until two weeks later because of the mandatory 2 weeks waiting period.
Unknown to
Internet users, Mozilla is, in fact, the not-so-irradiated cousin of
Godzilla.
Where
Godzilla has incredible strength, Mozilla itself is frequently frustrated by
websites designed only for the dreaded
Internet Explorer.
Currently Mozilla has a disowned child: the Seamonkey, which split from it while they were living together as a big happy family with Godzilla and Mozilla.
I was surfing the information superhighway safely and happily with Mozilla when *bang*, I slammed into a website designed only for Internet Explorer. Immediately, I left in disgust
The time-wasting effort by anally retentive persons in searching or formulating algorithms for anagrams
After 3 years of hard work, the researchers could not find an analgram for the phrase "Statue of Liberty"
A dedicated news channel to giving people bad news.
It is available in various media, including the Internet, video and television.
Andy sighed as the Gloomberg news anchor read out Friday's employment statistics. More people were unemployed than ever in the last ten years!
The post-broking state of people after a
stockbroker has
serviced them.
However these
clients usually end up on the wrong end of the said service.
I just saw Amy, she just got off the phone with her
stockbroker, her face said it all -- she was totally stockbroken.
A person who carries out dealings with birds of the Ciconiidae variety. May involve buying, selling, growing and also delisting of such said avian species.
Usually a storkbroker carries out his or her activities in a regulared stork Exchange, such as the London Stork Exchange, the New York Stork Exchange, or the Tokyo Stork Exchange. According to regulations trading storks at arms length is currently mandatory for safety reasons, particularly to avoid being pecked in the nether regions.
The stork broker may also trade future contracts on storks for future delivery.
Requisites for storkbroking are passing the stork exchange regulation exam (usually "Rules, regulations and safety precautions in Stork Broking") and also the analysis exam "Storks : Product knowledge, analysis and slaughtering methods".
Did you hear about Jim the storkbroker?
He short-slaughtered 10 000 African Spoonbills and covered back at closing to make a huge profit!
