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pointy-haired
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adj. [after the character in the Dilbert comic strip] Describes the extreme
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form of the property that separates suits and marketroids from hackers.
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Compare brain-dead ; demented ; see PHB. Always applied to people, never to
ideas. The plural form is often used as a noun. The pointy-haireds ordered
me to use Windows NT, but I set up a Linux server with Samba instead.