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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>gumby</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="guiltware.html" title="guiltware"/><link rel="next" href="gunch.html" title="gunch"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">gumby</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="guiltware.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="gunch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="gumby"/><dt xmlns="" id="gumby"><b>gumby</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/guhm<68>bee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from a class of Monty Python characters, poss. with some influence
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from the 1960s claymation character] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. An act of minor but conspicuous stupidity, often in <span class="firstterm">gumby maneuver</span> or <span class="firstterm">pull a gumby</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [NRL] <span class="grammar">n.</span> A bureaucrat, or
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other technical incompetent who impedes the progress of real work. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Relating to things
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typically associated with people in sense 2. (e.g. “<span class="quote">Ran would be
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writing code, but Richard gave him gumby work that's due on Friday</span>”,
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or, “<span class="quote">Dammit! Travel screwed up my plane tickets. I have to go out
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on gumby patrol.</span>”)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="guiltware.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="gunch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">guiltware<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>gunch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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