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Whiteboard Baiting 

When a teacher or adult unintentionally says innuendo to the class whilst giving a lesson, just waiting for a student to yell out "that's what she said" or fall into tears laughing.
Did you have Mr. Harris for physical science this morning?
Yeah. He was whiteboard baiting us for the whole class on friction!

He kept telling us "When you grab something and rub it, you create friction, which radiates heat from the object."
We were trying so hard not to laugh

whiteboard wanker 

A pejorative game design term used to desribe game designers who lack technical skills and and an understanding of how design philosophy is implemented. Therefore, such whiteboard wankers are only able to verbally articulate their ideas.
Jesus Aaron is such a whiteboard wanker all he does it talk about how fun this game is going to be once engineering builds it.
whiteboard wanker by ADGOD May 16, 2018

whiteboard markers 

gee, ma nuts smell like whiteboard markers again. i washed them just last night.
(no but fr anyone know how to stop it..)

Whiteboard Tornado Cup 

A Japanese Country Band that emerged in late 2011. Their hit singles include "Lemonade Tears", "Punishment Pie", and "Cow Prophet Generator". They sound like a cross between Garth Brooks and Takkyu Ishino.
Young Lad: Have you listened to Whiteboard Tornado Cup?

Old Lad: Yeah man, it's like listening to Hello Kitty fighting Woody from Toystory.

whiteboard alert 

This is yelled whenever Carl Rove appears on the Fox News Channel for an interview, usually alerting viewers that he may display a whiteboard during the course of providing a response to the host's query
While watching "Hannity" the other night on Fox News Channel, I saw that Carl Rove was to be a guest, so I yelled out "Whiteboard Alert!" while seated in my recliner.
whiteboard alert by Cajundweeb July 11, 2020

whiteboard masturbation 

A term sometimes used in certain software engineering circles to refer to the excessive use of things like object-oriented programming, specifically its principle of abstraction, to create highly abstract, polymorphic, incomprehensible and unnecessarily complex systems within software instead of keeping things simple.

This is usually practiced by "engineers" who value the "design" of software more than actually delivering value
to the software's users and/or believe that writing software is akin to designing a car or a building. Buildings, for example, cannot easily be torn down again if some part was constructed incorrectly or contains an error, whereas most software can.

While some may argue that it's prudent to keep one's code "clean" or "extendible" and whatnot, excessive abstraction can have the exact opposite effect: You get an unnecessarily complex mess that is extremely hard to untangle once you actually discover a use case which it didn't account for. The result is a "building" that cannot easily be rebuilt - said whiteboard masturbators will then argue, that "it should've just been designed better in the first place" and that the "model wasn't good enough" and will continue to draw UML diagrams that are of no use apart from impressing the sales department.
"Maybe we should use a visitor pattern to separate this strategy from the concrete adapter that is instantiated by our abstract factory so we can guarantee arbitrary observability throughout our proxied chain of responsibility."
"... listen, at this point it's just whiteboard masturbation. Just keep it simple and write a function."
whiteboard masturbation by Aequitosh February 28, 2024