< jargon > Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed down , to the point where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof paper syndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper". For example, this is an actual quote from Apple Computer 's LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame."
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(1997-06-23)