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| #4768 | | zeal, n.:
Quality seen in new graduates -- if you're quick.
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| #4769 | | Zero Defects, n.:
The result of shutting down a production line.
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| #4770 | | Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor:
People are always available for work in the past tense.
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| #4771 | | Obscurism:
The practice of peppering daily life with obscure
references as a subliminal means of showcasing both one's education
and one's wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4772 | | McJob:
A low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future job in the
service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by
those who have never held one.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4773 | | Poverty Jet Set:
A group of people given to chronic traveling at the expense of
long-term job stability or a permanent residence. Tend to have doomed
and extremely expensive phone-call relationships with people named
Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent-flyer programs at parties.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4774 | | Historic Underdosing:
To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news
broadcasts.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4775 | | Historic Overdosing:
To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news
broadcasts.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4776 | | Historical Slumming:
The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack
industrial sites, rural villages -- locations where time appears to
have been frozen many years back -- so as to experience relief when
one returns back to "the present."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4777 | | Brazilification:
The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the
accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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