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WOMBAT
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/wombat/ , adj. [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to
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problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely
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to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful
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constructions such as wrestling with a wombat. See also crawling horror ,
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SMOP. Also note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in
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Commonwealth Hackish. Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE
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adopted the wombat as their notional mascot; the program's help file
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responded to HELP WOMBAT with factual information about Real World wombats.
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