DirtyWaterbury's definitions

santa breath

horrid alcoholic homeless breath from a vagrant ex-con of a Santa. breath of a liquid lunch and a lifetime of bad decisions

Peter was happy to get off Santa's lap because his santa breath smelled like a scotch induced puke and a spoiled tuna and pickle sandwich.

by DirtyWaterbury November 19, 2016

scarlet fever blanket

a wooly, scratchy, undesirable blanket. in a traditional sense: a red wool camp blanket with a couple of large gray or black stripes on it. similar to a camp blanket that white settlers would trade to native americans, and unintentionally pass along scarlet fever.

I have a scarlet fever blanket in the back of my Jeep...so we could load the firewood into my car if you want.

by DirtyWaterbury September 7, 2016

email fork

When your coworker does not respond to the latest reply of an email thread, the discussion becomes forked between his reply and the latest. The fork is more severe when an email volley is accumulating participants, and you get left out. in which case, you'll hope someone will loop you in. the fork could be unintentional if the forker is just a slow-ass chicken pecker. but if he has a rep of being a habitual threadjacker, it is probably not

To avoid an email fork of the thread with a client, Becky sent Chad a DM that she was drafting a response to the client's latest questions.

by DirtyWaterbury March 12, 2019

unsubscribe

a simple, rude, one word response to an unnecessarily long email thread, usually evolving into an unwarranted tangential conversation.

Did you see Wayne going on and on in that email thread this morning? Who cares...unsubscribe.

by DirtyWaterbury September 3, 2016

hit by the bus

Phrase used when evaluating how much risk exists in a (software) project, more specifically, if project success is too dependent upon any one principal team member. Closely related to "bus factor".

What if Eugene is hit by the bus, who will approve Git pull requests?

by DirtyWaterbury March 8, 2019

loose off the goose

buzzed or drunk. typically off of Grey Goose Vodka (bottle service at the club).

I dont know what I was thinking when I said that, I must have been loose off the goose.

by DirtyWaterbury October 20, 2016

no pisser

A task so urgent that not even a bathroom break is possible until it is complete.

He knew that correcting the mistake in the (soon to be delivered) presentation slides would be a no pisser.

by DirtyWaterbury February 11, 2019