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.

by redshirt58 February 25, 2009

Sucker Emcee

Complete loser, unable to do anything and is the worst at what he does.

Every clan we play has an serious sucker emcee.

by Divine January 22, 2004

excellence

The state or condition of being excellent.

Webster's Dictionary defines "excellence" as "the state or condition of being excellent."

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!"

by Bruce McGoose January 10, 2007

Exceptable

When a statement or question can be contradicted with the word "except"

The statement "All cows are brown" is exceptable because I can say "All cows are brown EXCEPT that albino one over there"

by Micheal Who? September 26, 2010

except not really

said to confirm the statement that precedes it. except not really

i love cats. except not really

by liiiiiiiiiiime October 8, 2009

Excel-fu

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"

by Dooley McCrackin February 4, 2010