retailguy's definitions

friendmining

Searching through the friends list of your own contacts on sites like Facebook and Linkedin in the hopes of growing your own friends list for appearances' sake.

Q: How do you know Tom?

A: I don't really... I was friendmining and he is a friend of Steve's.

by retailguy October 16, 2008

Icelandic volcano

When something small and of little significance causes a major and disproportionate clusterf*** for a huge number of people.

Boss: Why were you late for work?

Employee: A car broke down on I-5 and turned into an Icelandic volcano... I couldn't move for hours.

by retailguy April 18, 2010