WOMBAT
WOMBAT: /wom'bat/ adj. [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And
Time] 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'. See also crawling horror, SMOP. Also note the
rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth
Hackish.
Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat
as their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to
"HELP WOMBAT" with factual information about Real World wombats.
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