Just call me Flipper the Syswallah

In these times it is always good to know the lingo to improve communication with your intended audience, e.g. if you write financial applications knowing a little bank slang is helpful. Interestingly enough Schwab has compiled Weird Words of Wall Street, More Weird Words of Wall Street and Son of Weird Words of Wall Street as a casual lexicon of the Wall St. set. I'm certain that Enron will add a few new words to this growing list. :)

And the ADS listed a few of the unlucky contenders in the word of the year vote, a few of them are really funny;

• Assoline -methane used as fuel
• Netwallah - website admin.
• EC - emotionally corrrect, i.e. 911
• desk rage - cube tantrum
• dot-orging - bailing from the .com to go .org
• annoyicon - those stupid network icons on the lower right side of your TV screen
• sneakers-up - yet another way to say dot bomb

This makes me wonder if there are words outside of JAPH, etc. that are unique to Perl. Drop me a line if you think of any and I'll make a little Perl lexicon for grins.