BOGOMETER

Meaning of BOGOMETER in English

< humour > /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity .

Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.

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(1999-06-10)

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BOGOMETER — A notional instrument for measuring bogosity . Compare the Troll-O-Meter and the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also …
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WANK — /wangk/ [Columbia University: probably by mutation from Commonwealth slang "wank", to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a …
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HUMOUR — Pretty Amazing New Stuff mickey rusty memory magic smoke Murphy's Law Finagle's Law hand cruft plug and pray Blue Screen …
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BOGOSITY — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with …
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BOGON FLUX — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer ; as …
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WANK — [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a …
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BOGUS — 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus." 2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your arguments are bogus." 4. …
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BOGOSITY — 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus . Bogosity is measured with a bogometer …
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BOGON FLUX — A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer ; as a speaker …
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TROLL-O-METER — Common Usenet jargon for a notional instrument used to measure the quality of a Usenet troll . "Come on, everyone! …
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