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Excellent 

*taps fingertips together*
"Excellent."
Excellent by Occifer August 20, 2008

bearded excellence 

The act of having an excellent or magnificent beard. Anyone who has a huge unkepmt beard despite what fashion dictates is practicing bearded excellence. This also goes for ungangly mustaches and bushy mutton chop sideburns.
Check out that hobo with the crazy bum beard; bearded excellence.

Center of Excellence 

When a tech company outsources and offshores expensive jobs to a cheap 2nd or 3rd world labor location, they give that new place a lofty name, as if it's god's gift to their future success, while it generally displaces US or other western (expensive) workers.
They'll trade one a $100k/yr Java coder stateside for a half dozen Sanjeev's in the Center of Excellence in Bangalore.

The Center of Excellence contributes directly to shareholder value, i.e. executive bonuses.

The Center of Excellence is in Bangalore. That makes Austin the Center of Expensive Mediocrity.
Center of Excellence by redshirt58 February 25, 2009

excellence 

Webster's Dictionary defines "excellence" as "the state or condition of being excellent."
excellence by MasterPrime October 10, 2005

Excelsior 

A phrase often shouted after succesfully completing a mission.

A famous southpark episode depicts Al Gore shouting "Excelsior" after defeating Manbearpig.
Unfortunately, Al Gore is still searching for Manbearpig in real life.
George Bush after winning the election due to him rigging it: "Excelsior!"
Excelsior by Bruce McGoose January 10, 2007
The art of using Microsoft Excel. Term commonly used to denote the users level of skill. A skilled user who has a strong level of Excel-fu usually is called upon by lower level Excel users and can enter statistical formulas from large pools of data at lighting fast speeds. Derived from the martial art Kung-fu.
Cliff: "Hey Joe, can you help me determine the mean, mode, median, upper and lower control limits from this pool of data. My Excel-fu is weak"

Joe: "Why yes young grasshopper, send me the file"
Excel-fu by Dooley McCrackin February 4, 2010