Dr. Fred Mbogo: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ n. [Stanford] The
archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp. an
incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye
doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning."
The name comes from synergy between bogus and the original Dr.
Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old
"Addams Family" TV show. Interestingly enough, it turns out that
under the rules for Swahili noun classes, `m-' is the characteristic
prefix of "nouns referring to human beings". As such, "mbogo" is
quite plausible as a Swahili coinage for a person having the nature
of a bogon. Compare Bloggs Family and J. Random Hacker;
see also Fred Foobar and fred.
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