Job-Shaped Object, Piano-Shaped Object, Bandwiches

Gareth Branwyn garethb2 at EARTHLINK.NET
Wed Sep 27 18:17:35 UTC 2000


The writer Marjorie Ingall used the term JOB-SHAPED OBJECT (also J.S.O.) on
The Well the other day. A J.S.O. is an employee, often a high-ranking one,
who seems to do little more than make an appearance at work. She claims
she's seen it in usage and that it's a play on PIANO-SHAPED OBJECT,  a
musician's term for a house piano that's so awful, it's a piano in name
only. My wife is a jazz musician who brings home a lot of great slang, and
she says she's never heard this term. Has anyone on the list heard either of
these?

Speaking of the wife bringing home great terms: BANDWICHES
[Used in her wedding band] These are the often inedible sandwiches tossed to
the band instead of the full meals served at the weddings and other events
at which the band performs.



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