Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ N. A Notional Instrument For Measuring Bogosity.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Jargon File
bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n.
A notional instrument
for measuring bogosity. Compare the Troll-O-Meter and
the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also
bogus.
Related:
bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring {bogosity}.
Compare the `wankometer' described in the {wank} entry...
Troll-O-Meter n. Common Usenet jargon for a notional instrument used to measure the quality of a Usenet troll.
Come on, everyone! If the above doesn't set off the Troll-O-Meter, we're going to have to get him to run around with a big blinking sign saying `I am a troll, I'm only in it for the controversy and flames' and shooting random gobs of Jell-O(tm) at us before the point is proven....
bogosity: /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}.
At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj. [Columbia University: prob.
by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v.
`wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
bogotify: /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
bogon filter /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.
Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets....