spoot-canned

[GSCole]

I've heard many euphemisms for being dumped by an organization, but
spoot-canned is a new one.  I have no idea at all about the actual
meaning of the reference, suggestions welcome.  The term can be found
at:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/05/07/010507oppetreley.xml

"...announced in his column that he was laid off (aka downsized, riffed,
cost-synergized, liberated from the shackles of financial security, add
your favorite insincere equivalent of 'spoot-canned' here)."  A
statement by Nicholas Petreley, in his column The Open Source, in
Infoworld, 4 May 2001.

George Cole  gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University