August 24, 2015, 21:12
KallehPrairie dogging
I learned a new term today, "prairie dogging." Apparently it is when people lean over cubicles at work to talk with each other. Have you heard of it?
August 25, 2015, 05:59
<Proofreader>Just from the term, I can picture the event.
August 25, 2015, 10:46
GeoffIn Hugh Hefner's office, do employees work in pubicles?
August 25, 2015, 12:02
<Proofreader>Publicles are frozen ice cream treats
August 26, 2015, 05:56
<Proofreader>The zoo had a prairie dog exhibit with glass domes in the middle of the exhibit allowing visitors to get inside the den with the varmints, to get an idea what their life was like.
August 26, 2015, 06:30
GeoffNow TV producers do it with rednecks.
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Originally posted by Proofreader:
The zoo had a prairie dog exhibit with glass domes in the middle of the exhibit allowing visitors to get inside the den with the varmints, to get an idea what their life was like.
August 27, 2015, 20:49
KallehThis is a rather annoying
video, but it defines "prairie dogging." The term makes sense.
August 28, 2015, 05:36
<Proofreader>It defines it but wouldn't it have been easier to demonstrate it by merely standing and looking over a partition?
September 13, 2015, 07:54
CJSYou might want to be cautious regarding how you use this term seeing as how it has at least one other (fairly disgusting) meaning. I don't think it is nearly as widespread as the cubicle image, though, since my sole reference is a scene in the movie "Rat Race" in which a teen, on the road with her family, expresses her extreme need for them to find a rest stop in a major hurry. "I'm prairie dogging," she advises.
Ah, the beauty of the English language!
September 13, 2015, 11:06
<Proofreader> Here is the scene to which CJS refers.
September 13, 2015, 21:20
KallehEwww! I had not seen that movie before.
Great to see you CJS!