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