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• WOMBAT: [Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] adj. 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'....
• uninteresting: adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• uninteresting adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• WOMBAT -- an australian dildo.
• First there was Dial-A-Prayer, then Dial-A-Recipe, and even Dial-A-Footballer.
  But the south-east Victorian town of Sale has produced one to top them all....
• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
• crawling horror n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
  Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity....
• crawling horror: n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
  Like {dusty deck} or {gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity....