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[common] Acronym, Bastard Operator From Hell. A system administrator with absolutely no tolerance for luser s. "You say you need more filespace? <massive-global-delete> Seems to me you have plenty left..." Many BOFHs (and others who would be BOFHs if they could get away with it) hang out in the newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery , although there has also been created a top-level newsgroup hierarchy ( bofh.* ) of their own.
Several people have written stories about BOFHs. The set usually considered canonical is by Simon Travaglia and may be found at the Bastard Home Page, http://prime-mover.cc.waikato.ac.nz/Bastard.html . BOFHs and BOFH wannabes hang out on scary devil monastery and wield LART s.