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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wibble</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="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="Whorfian-mind-lock.html" title="Whorfian mind-lock"/><link rel="next" href="WIBNI.html" title="WIBNI"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wibble</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Whorfian-mind-lock.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WIBNI.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wibble"/><dt xmlns="" id="wibble"><b>wibble</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [UK, perh. originally from the first <i class="citetitle">Roger
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Irrelevant</i> strip in <i class="citetitle">VIZ</i> comics, spread
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via <i class="citetitle">Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s and early
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1990s</i>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.,v.</span> Commonly used to
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describe chatter, content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless
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contributions to threads in newsgroups. “<span class="quote">Oh, rspence is wibbling
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again</span>”. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. One of the preferred
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<a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a>s in the UK, forming a series with <b class="command">wobble</b>, <b class="command">wubble</b>, and
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<b class="command">flob</b> (attributed to the hilarious
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historical comedy <i class="citetitle">Blackadder</i>). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. A pronunciation of the letters “<span class="quote">www</span>”, as seen in
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URLs; i.e., www.<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>.com may be pronounced
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“<span class="quote">wibble dot foo dot com</span>” (compare
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<a href="../D/dub-dub-dub.html"><i class="glossterm">dub dub dub</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Whorfian-mind-lock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WIBNI.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Whorfian mind-lock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WIBNI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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