Euphemism Jokes / Recent Jokes
New Corporate Buzz Words for the 90's Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. Body Nazis: Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively. Seagull Manager: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, and then leaves. Chainsaw Consultant: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands. Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles. Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators running. Mouse Potato: The online, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. Prairie Dogging: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. SITCOMs: What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. more...
In a recent readers' contest, The Washington Post asked contestants to take any hyphenated heading at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a definition for the compound word they formed. Some of our favorite entries:
Advertising-Air: Touting a product when you already have a monopoly with no alternatives. "Seeing ads for U.S. postage stamps is like advertising-air."
Alcohol-Apartments: Universities used to call these "dormitories."
Artificial-Asphalt: Polenta.
Balancing-Balloons: Silicone implants on just one side to "even things up."
Banquet-Beauty: A euphemism for a plus-size woman.
Child-Duct: An FCC-acceptable euphemism for part of the female anatomy.
Chiropractors-Christmas: A forecast of freezing rain and heavy, wet snow.
Curtain-Dancing: What burlesque queens resort to when they've lost the figure for fan-dancing.
Demolition-Dentists: more...