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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dr. Fred Mbogo</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="DPer.html" title="DPer"/><link rel="next" href="dragon.html" title="dragon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dr. Fred Mbogo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DPer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dragon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Dr--Fred-Mbogo"/><dt xmlns="" id="Dr--Fred-Mbogo"><b>Dr. Fred Mbogo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/@m·boh´goh, dok´tr fred/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem,
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esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. “<span class="quote">Do you know a good
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eye doctor?</span>” “<span class="quote">Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry
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Cleaning.</span>” The name comes from synergy between
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<a href="../B/bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a> and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who
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was Gomez Addams' physician on the old <i class="citetitle">Addams Family</i>
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TV show. Interestingly enough, it turns out that under the rules for
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Swahili noun classes, ‘m-’ is the characteristic prefix of
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“<span class="quote">nouns referring to human beings</span>”. As such,
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“<span class="quote">mbogo</span>” is quite plausible as a Swahili coinage for a person
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having the nature of a <a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a>. Actually,
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“<span class="quote">mbogo</span>” is indeed a Ki-Swahili word referring to the African
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Cape Buffalo, <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">syncerus caffer</i></span>. It is one of
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the “<span class="quote">big five</span>” dangerous African game animals, and many people
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with bush experience believe it to be the most dangerous of them. Compare
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<a href="../B/Bloggs-Family.html"><i class="glossterm">Bloggs Family</i></a> and
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<a href="../J/J--Random-Hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">J. Random Hacker</i></a>; see also <a href="../F/Fred-Foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">Fred Foobar</i></a> and
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<a href="../F/fred.html"><i class="glossterm">fred</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DPer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dragon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DPer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dragon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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