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• muddie: n. Syn. {mudhead}. More common in Great Britain, possibly because system administrators there like to mutter "bloody muddies" when annoyed at the species.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hung adj. [from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with locked up, wedged...
• boat anchor n. [common; from ham radio] 1. Like doorstop but more severe
  implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....
• mudhead n. Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
  Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc....
• hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged}, but more common at UNIX/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with {locked up}, {wedged}...
• Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
  Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
• quirrelcide n. [common on Usenet's comp.risks newsgroup.
  ] (alt. `squirrelicide') What all too frequently happens when a squirrel decides to exercise its species's unfortunate penchant for shorting out power lines with their little furry bodies....
• Finagle's Law n. The generalized or `folk' version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will".
  One variant favored among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum" (but see also Hanlon's Razor)....