LMJargon

  1. acronym v. Bring Your Own Blanket. Term used when announcing a party; implies that a party is going to be a damned good one. See blanket time and the Drink of Life and Death.

  1. n. obsolete The area of the R&D building where the Imaging geeks live; the 7180 area of the building.

  1. n. A loud, dark, high-tech night club in Las Vegas, visited by LM'ers every Fall Demcox. For the record, the lifesize cardboard Elvira in Imaging Land was kindly donated by one of the bouncers.

  1. n. Drinking and laughing and being merry and generally growing and socializing as a team. Put a half-dozen LM'ers in a bar and there will be noise.

  1. bastardization n. Manager.

  1. n. A non-performer; a foofoo. Someone who gets laid off who should have been fired. Frequently of mangler or higher rank.

  1. adj. Unimportant; trivial. Flavoring word used to suggest triviality, as in Don’t worry about it—it’s just a foofoo suggestion, or I wrote this little foofoo test program this morning.

  2. n. A silly or ridiculous thing or person, as in Cut it out, you’re being a foofoo again.

  3. Something cushy or lite ’n’ fluffy, as in cheesy foofoo.

  4. Just about anything else.

  1. n. An employee of LaserMaster, preferably a loyal and dedicated one and not a foofoo or a puffalump. When LM'ers drink and frolic together it is referred to as corporate bonding. To say “loud LM'er” or “loud LM'ers” is somewhat redundant as loud is both understood and a necessity.

  1. n. A six-foot tall refrigerator located in the Hardware kitchen that holds a few hundred cans of cold carbonated beverages. The fridge first appeared in February of 1991 and quickly established itself as a lifeblood of software engines and other R&D folks.

  1. n. Meeting of the Beer Users Group (or for tee-totalers the Beverage Users Group), usually after-hours on a Friday evening.

  2. interj. Bellowed to announce the arrival of the beer and suggest the gathering of the masses.

  3. interr. Request for monetary donation prior to a beer run.