DROOL-PROOF PAPER
\dɹˈuːlpɹˈuːf pˈe͡ɪpə], \dɹˈuːlpɹˈuːf pˈeɪpə], \d_ɹ_ˈuː_l_p_ɹ_ˈuː_f p_ˈeɪ_p_ə]\
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Documentation that has been obsessively dumbeddown, to the point where only a cretin could bear to readit, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof papersyndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper". Forexample, this is an actual quote from Apple Computer'sLaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to openfire or flame."
By Denis Howe
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).