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upward failure

An individual who's rising career path is the result of repeated rejection and transfer from their current position as a means of ridding a group of their undesirable presence. An alternate means of expulsion from a group as opposed to termination.

After the process has been repeated in rapid succession, these individuals are mistakenly viewed by unknowing superiors as exceptional rising stars, and thus soon and often rise to the highest ranks of management.
The downward spiral, failure or non-performance of many modern corporations is the result of the cadre of upward failures who now ocupy the positions of CEO, CFO, and COO.
by WORDLE August 7, 2011
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Failure

What Steven He is
9-year-old Steven: Don't say failure!

Steven's dad aka substitute teacher: *waits for 2-3 awkward silence*

FAILURE
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Your existence is a monsoon of failure.
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A person who fails.
Oh my god, your such a failio for misspelling your own name on a test.
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Failthos

When someone fails miserably in an attempt to pathos, logos, ethos, kyphos, etc.
Announcers: "Make it a great day or not, the CHOICE IS YOURS!"

Stefan: "What a failthos..."
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AMD Bulldozer CPU aka Faildozer
I bought an AMD bulldozer CPU expecting to have greater performance and architecture over the phenom CPU's. Then I realized the phenom's were better than the BD. Hence, the Faildozer!
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failboat

A failed orginization or group of idiots. Doomed to failure and full of ineptitude, they still contiune to sail away on the sea of stupidity.
In extreme circumstances, one man can be catergorized as a failboat in and of his/her self.
Pictures of capsized or rolled boats usually shown as an example of what happens when the crew does something.
Hi! Im Al Gore and I invented the internet. Today I will be your captain of the SS Failboat.
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