In 1989, I became a Techno-Peasant when hired to do data-entry for the Federal Government.

@technobabble:= Jargon or terms used by computer support line personnel when annoyed with a customer and desriring to belittle them.

Any unintelligible gibberish that uses more acronyms or references to system or dos than actual English.

Example: Well, your MIDI player must have caused a 404 in your DOS, which in turn corrupted your LAN and your OS.

The whole DL is pretty much ruined until we reboot the Vx. Umm could you say that without the technobabble?

@technochasm:= The gap between the haves and have nots regarding technology.

Example: The state of California is trying to bridge the technochasm in many of our schools.

@Technodunce:= One lacking in any technical knowledge.

Example: Don't ask me how to reconnect your modem, I'm a complete technodunce.

@technogob:= Someone who pretends to know more about computers than she really does

and continually tries to baffle friends with techno talk.

Example: Peter talks all the time about internet details. Yes, he's a technogob, replied John.

@technologize:= To apply technology

Example: We technologize the operations of a mid-sized company

@Technomancer:= A wizard of technology

Example: The uuber hacker was considered a technomancer even within his own circle of friends.

@technosis:= Feeling of fear, confusion, dread, etc. brought on by technology

Example: My wife's technosis is so bad she won't even use the electric can-opener.

@technotic:= Any boring, droning electronic dance music designed to be enjoyed only by happy people; describes almost all music played at a rave; in the state of being bored by any bad disco influenced music.

Example: This place is so technotic only ravers could enjoy it.

@technovelty:= the latest technological gadget that is more a conversation piece than a necessity

Example: His parents would not allow him to spend his allowance on the compact retractable shoestring lacer, saying it was a technovelty that would soon end up in a drawer.

@techsodermist:= One who stuffs a dead tech company with filler or fluff in the hopes of convincing someone to buy it

Example: They hired that techsodermist to spin their dotcom as a new idea to some investors.

@TED:= Anacronism for Totally EavesDropping used to describe the art of listening in on others' conversations

Example: -Can you hear them?

-Oh yeah. I am so ted right now!

@tediate:= To annoy with meaningless blather.

Example: You aren't really contributing anything by all that. You are just tediating me.

@teentastic:= Those crazy, fun, fantastic times during one's teenage years.

Those unique times that you can only experience when in your teens.

Example: Upon spotting a group of teenagers having a good time, Looks like they're having a teentastic time.

upon a new teen's 13th birthday that happens to fall on a Friday: have a teentastic weekend!

@teepeekaboo:= The act of looking for toilet paper by opening and closing cabinet doors, drawers, closet doors,

and the like; usually preceded by a person going to the bathroom and looking over to see a

naked cardboard roll where the toilet paper should be.

Example: Thanks for leaving me with no toilet paper. I had to play teepeekaboo until I

found some in the cabinet under the sink.

@teetotality:= Unattainably healthy state

Example: She's headed to Betty Ford to work on achieving teetotality.

@Teflet:= Small flake of Teflon from a cheap non-stick pan.

Example: He told her that the bits in the egg were pepper, even though he knew they were probably teflets.

@teh:= Misspelling of the. Indicates that teh sentence to follow is not to be taken seriously.

Example: Teh money ate my dishwasher.

@tek:= Superior; high-class.

Example: Your baseball cards are ted.

@Tekillya:= An alcoholic beverage of Mexican heritage. Consuming mass quantities is known to kill ya. Pronounced similarly to the word Tequila.

Example: Come on, a couple shots of Tequila will do us good. No way buddy, there's a reason why they call it tekillya...

@telecrastination:= The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.

Example:

@telefellatio:= when you have to schmooze someone important over the telephone

Example: Hey Bob If Mr. Big Cheese calls make sure you perform telefellatio on him

@telefire:= telephone pole, used at an early age, and the whole family has been using it ever since

Example: Mama mama! Look at the telefires!

@Telekepsychic:= To be able to place one's thoughts into another's mind;

the person able to place her thoughts into another's mind.

Example: (adj) My friend Gavin is telekepsychic: at lunch today,

he made me think about killing the evil plant in the courtyard.

(n) I went to the telekepsychic for a tarot reading,

but she just convinced me to pay her money instead.

@telekinesium:= A mineral that gives the user the telekinetic power.

Example: My brother tried to use that rock as if it were telekinesium.

@telent:= To suffer from the inability to type correctly when someone is standing behind you.

Even simple words are typed incorrectly because the person typing is conscious of the person

standing behind her.

Example: Fred gets telent really bad when John stands behind him. You can barely understand what he's typing.

@telepanhandler:= Any telephone solicitor who tries to separate you from your money.

Example: His dinner was importunately interrupted by a telepanhandler soliciting contributions for the Fraternal Order of Police.

@telepathetic:= To have telepathic skills that are no good to anybody

Example: He was telepathetic. He could tell when a bear was hungry.

@Telephoney:= Used to describe the monopoly of the telephone company in the 70's. Still creeps up when old-timers in the computer industry talk about how Steve Wozniak was able to make free long distance phone calls with a blue box.

Pronounced: Tell-awf-phony

Example: I tell ya, son, when ol' Woz was able to beat the Telephoney and call the Vatican to wake up the Pope--for

free.... Well, that was just too groovy.

@telepiphany:= To come to a mutual realization with someone while conversing over an ICQ-style chat client.

Example: I was chatting with Adam last night over AIM, and we had this telepiphany about Bil Keane

as a postmodern commentator on the post-Viet Nam American nuclear family,

surgically deconstructing the flawed ideologies that define modern existence.

@temp:= any co-worker (not necessarily a temporary employee) who shows a profound lack of intelligence and/or initiative, yet always knows a better way for you to do your job

Example:

@tempon:= Temporary employees hired for a short-time to soak up extra work around the office.

Example: That project was killing us until we hired those tempons.

@ten shades:= (n) To a high degree, a large amount. Usually used to quantify emotions.

Example: I won the lottery! I am ten shades of excited!

@ten ten:= an informal meeting with managment...ten minutes for you ten minutes for me

Example: Hey, your ten ten is set for 12:30 tomorrow, OK?

@ten:= The best, as in Bo Derek

Example: Girl, your hair looks ten!

@tender:= A very attractive female.

Example: I met a girl last night at the bar. She is a tender.

@tenderitis:= Playing sports with an injury that still hurts when touched.

Example: I could have stretched that double into a triple if I hadn't had tenderitis in my big toe.

@tenderizer:= Slang for a type of dance movement involving the swinging of the right arm with a contorted expression on the face. The Tenderizer.

Example: Zubin, when you do the tenderizer, it makes me laugh really hard!

@tendril:= Anything useless that is kept for no particular reason. A packrat saves tendril; something most people would throw away that is kept.

Example: Barnaby's apartment is full of tendril.

Dave needs to throw away that stack of newspaper and all the other tendril he's got cluttering his patio.

@tenfooting:= When walking a dog and he stops about every ten feet to sniff something incredible interesting to a dog's nose, really throwing off your pace.

Example: We had a great walk around the lake except for Bosco tenfooting me to death.

@tentatise:= To make up words.

Example: This site is for people who like to tentatise.

@tenue:= 1. The manner in which one behaves.