Well, I'm back from England. After a weekend filled with television, giant cheeseburgers, and free refills, I returned to work today. Rand, Jeff, and Jane gave me the scoop on PubCon antics, Matt called me a nerd for wearing my glasses (I'm still trying to adjust back to Seattle time, and contacts = burning), and Scott kept reminding me to not call security because he isn't trespassing and actually does work for us. Basically, it's good to be back. :)

Anyway, for my first post-England post, I thought I'd supply you loyal readers with an introductory course in British slang. Thanks to Ammon, Adam, and Lee at Fresh Egg, I now have a mastery of British terms that sound suspiciously like Fraggle Rock characters.

1. muppet [mup-pet]
As Ammon put it, a muppet is someone who "commits web design atrocities."

Ex. "Not only does that muppet's site only work with IE, it has a splash page and requires frames."

2. numpty [nump-tee]
Someone who, even after being shown all the evidence to fix something, still insists on doing it the wrong way.

Ex. "Michael Martinez is such a numpty." (Haha, just joking MM)

3. plonker [plonk-er]
A more socially accepted version of "d--k head"

Ex. "Those plonkers at Yahoo! wouldn't let me into their party!"

4. gobshite [gob-shy-tuh]
Someone who talks too much

Ex. "Rand, you gobshite! Stop sharing link building tactics on your blog!"

5. codswallop [cod-swall-up]
A load of bull

Ex. "Google's Page Rank is a load of codswallop."

6. naff [nah-f]
Dodgy, sketchy

Ex. "That was pretty naff of Matt Cutts to bring up politics at PubCon."

7. chav [chav]
Trailer trash

Ex. "Did you see that chav's MySpace profile?"

Thanks again to Fresh Egg for being my home away from home. I'll write up an in-depth article of my internship abroad and will hopefully have it up after Thanksgiving. Until then, look out for Jeff and Jane's coverage of PubCon coming soon.