fnord

n. [from the Illuminatus Trilogy ] 1. A word used in email and news postings
to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with
Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. I heard that David Koresh
is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.) Where can I fnord
get the Principia Discordia from? 2. A metasyntactic variable , commonly
used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius.

