Job-Shaped Object, Piano-Shaped Object, Bandwiches

[Tom Kysilko]

My wife is a piano tuner/technician (their term for themselves). She and
her colleagues frequently refer to P.S.O.s

At 02:17 PM 9/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>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?


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  Tom Kysilko        Practical Data Services
  pds at visi.com       Saint Paul MN USA
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