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New Vocabulary Words and phrases

iconTo go along with the “new” economic conditions.

“Jingle Mail”: has nothing to do with Christmas, it’s when you mail your house keys to your mortgage company instead of paying.

“Skips”: More than 3,000 cars left outside Dubai’s international airport in recent months. Most of the cars -four-wheel drives, saloons and “a few” Mercedes -had keys left in the ignition. Those who flee the emirate are known as skips.

“Recession Boyfriend”:Someone you normally wouldn’t be excited about dating but we are in a recession and they have money, so you go out with them

“Recession roadkill”: One of the many thousands of people who have been laid off or lost their jobs because of the recession.

“DABA Girl”: I can’t explain, you have to go here.

“Canniversary”: A year from the date on which you were fired from a job.

“Economic Vegetarian”: Only eating Vegetables because you can’t afford to buy meat.

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17 responses to “New Vocabulary Words and phrases”

  1. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    To add to a comment in Yglesias’ post:

    “And rich people have it pretty good here in the land of the free. By contrast, take a look at a ‚Äúbad‚Äù neighborhood in Helsinki and compare it to a ‚Äútransitional‚Äù neighborhood in DC‚Äîto say nothing of a genuinely down-and-out American ghetto‚Äîand it‚Äôs almost laughable.”

    Yeah, I’ve got to say in Germany, I lived in the “bad” part of Berlin with the Turkish immigrants and artists, and wandered through the red light district alone. Both at a couple of ridiculous hours. My own neighborhood scared me a little (mostly because of the drunks), but if that is the worst that Berlin had to offer … well, I’d say College Park would be there as soon as you gave them tickets.

  2. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    I had McDonald’s with my sis in Zurich and it cost about 20 bucks for the both of us and they even charged us for ketchup packets.

    I could take France, but no damn Democrat is going to turn my country into Switzerland. I’m an American and our ketchup packets are free damnit.

  3. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    I don’t mind Europe at large, it is France that I care about.

    BTW: That square in Helsinki is one of my favorite parts of the world (the stories I could tell…). I would move to Finland if A) it were America B ) not so damn cold and C) so effing expensive and D) dark for most of the winter. The late days are over rated.

  4. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    btw, IRE, per our new snark:

    http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/02/the_european_bogeyman.php

    WE’RE GONNA TURN INTO EUROPE!

  5. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    Hmmm, HTML tags don’t like me. “Trust fund” was to be striken through.

  6. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    IRE,

    It’s alright. You can spray-paint “A-Roid” on the rubble of the old Yankee stadium before going out.

    BTW, we are going to need terms for

    a) a Republican that comes back to Georgia to praise the stimulus that he voted against and

    b) a Republican grandstander that will demand to return the money to the Feds in order to defend his or her child’s trust fund future.

  7. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    TBS: Introduce yourself to me this weekend.

    PS: My hatred of Yankees may get in the way of such a test.

  8. TBS Avatar
    TBS

    Perhaps you can run a field test in NYC this weekend IRE

  9. Mouth of the South Avatar
    Mouth of the South

    I agree, did you see the part where he explained that investment bankers and stock brokers were viewed just like lawyers? What a dolt.

  10. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    “Think of your friends who are finance, risk management or economics majors. A good number of them will go on to become bankers. They’re normal people, just like you and me.

    And what kind of message do we send young college kids by telling them they’ll never make more than $500,000 in a year as a banker? The supply of talented bankers will dry up faster than a keg at a frat party. ”

    The quality of these analogies and the appeal to Think of the children! makes me think the Terry D-bags are getting a little desperate as their Friedmanomics collapses around them.

  11. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    vis-a-vis the DABA girls…I’m moar of a hot chicks with *****bags guy myself.

  12. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    Hmm…that gives me hope. It could be that times just ain’t tough enough…

  13. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    Awwwww, that’s so cute. It’s almost like they think that the Yaley and Harvard types would ever give them the time of day.

    Because guess which school made it on the top 30 of Business Week. And guess which one didn’t.

    It’s what I love about Joe the Plumber conservatives. They think if they lick the boots clean enough, they will actually get invited to the party.

  14. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    “Terry Douchebags”

    I don’t think this one is new, but the economic conditions certainly haven’t hampered our business school majors’ ability to grace our newspaper with the worst of op-eds.

    http://www.redandblack.com/news/2009/02/12/Opinions/In.Defense.Of.Rich.Executives-3625207.shtml

  15. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    IRE: well it was true in the 80’s recession when I did it.. yeah I’m heartless.. but hey I had a sucky job and he didn’t. Got an Hermes scarf outta the deal.

  16. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    It has been my experience that the phenomenon of recession boyfriends is a myth.

  17. odinseye2k Avatar
    odinseye2k

    Ah, the DABA girls. Mistresses of their universe until they reach 35.

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