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Big Gihugic Lexicon of Sick & Twisted Jargon & Slang

Todd Lehman: Original Editor in Chief

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1. nonce word v. Removal of function or procedure stubs when they are no longer necessary.

1. n. The directory S:\TOOLS and its subdirectories. No longer located on S: for most people due to shuffling of files to make room. I think you can find it in the Stools Directory.

1. n. LeeB's plastic toy horse on a stick that travels with him to all trade shows and all parties and dinners at such trade shows. He was born Dec. 12, 1988, and baptized and christened a few months later. He rode on the front of the truck like a masthead whenever LeeB drove to trade shows and has logged over 24,000 miles.

1. bastardization adj. Simulated, as in stimulated cheese food. See also simulated cheese.

1. n. Child or baby. The little spud looks just like you. Burps like you, too.

1. n. A product that does everything, but does no single thing really well. LeoS coined the term in a conversation with GregB, who wanted an imaging product that was infinitely fast, infinitely functional, and cost nothing (the sales person's dream, except for the comission part). The original phrase was sports car dump truck with wings.

1. n. An undesirable or unusual substance, for example an unanticipated toner- or non-toner related mark on a fresh page, or a goopy food substance in the wrong place.
2. adj. Containing a combination of substances, as in a “spooge donut” (chocolate a with cream filling) or “spooge chips” (sour cream and cheddar potato chips).
3. v. To spill or mark with such a substance, for example if you spill some red food down your shirt, you just “spooged” yourself. Derived from spewage.

1. bastardization n. Spool directory. A directory where temporary files are spooled for printing, primarily in the Win.* product line. Coined because it is possible, using Norton Change Directory in DOS, to go there by typing NCD spoo.

1. ans. A non-Boolean answer to a Boolean question; neither agreement, nor disagreement, nor indecisiveness. From a Monty Python sketch.