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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tardegy</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tarball.html" title="tarball"/><link rel="next" href="taste.html" title="taste"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tardegy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tarball.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="taste.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tardegy"/><dt xmlns="" id="tardegy"><b>tardegy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">tar´djee</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[deliberate mangling of <span class="firstterm">tragedy</span>] An incident in which someone who
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clearly deserves to be selected out of the gene pool on grounds of extreme
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stupidity meets with a messy end. Coined on the Darwin list, which is
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dedicated to chronicling such incidents; but almost all hackers would
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