Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slap Shots...
...there ever was a time for Microsoft employees to slap their boss with a reality check, this is it. The antitrust trial is on a six-week hiatus. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson urged the two sides to come up with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence...
...enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick, tight apparel and wonder-bra breasts reek of superficiality, pulls up in her red sports car equipped with a "Dad's Girl" license plate. Emanating her usual "don't-you-want-to-slap-me" self, she asks O'Hara "why the hell" had he stopped in the middle of the road, but O'Hara dismisses her and investigates the crash site. Employing Martian technology, Lloyd shrinks his spacecraft to the size of a toy, and O'Hara lifts the strange object off the beach...
...obviously, disgusted that this motion has even been proposed," the woman assaulted by Douglas wrote in an e-mail message. "This counter-motion would essentially give a convicted sex offender a slap on the wrist and nothing more serious than withdrawal on his record...
...this: Palm Pilot is for Gen X-ers; Motorola pager with colorful case and chain is for Gen Y-ers. Nirvana is for Gen X-ers; Cardigans is for Gen Y-ers, etc. In any case, I was happily skimming the columns, wondering what cliched label Business Week would slap on me, when I realized that I was a cultural nonentity according to the magazine--just a bit of flotsam in this generational alphabet soup...