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WOMBAT
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WOMBAT /wom'bat/ /adj./ [acronym: Waste Of Money,
Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly
uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone
interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions
such as `wrestling with a wombat'. See also crawling
horror, SMOP. Also note the rather different usage as a
metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth Hackish.
Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat
as their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to
"HELP WOMBAT" with factual information about Real World
wombats.
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