:Mbogo, Dr. Fred: /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] n. The
archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp. an
incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye
doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry
Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between {bogus} and the
original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician
on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare {Bloggs Family,
the}, see also {fred}.
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archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, esp. an
incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye
doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry
Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between {bogus} and the
original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician
on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare {Bloggs Family,
the}, see also {fred}.
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Related:
- Dr. Fred Mbogo /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ n.
[Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a
problem,
esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you... - Bloggs Family, the: n. An imaginary family consisting of Fred and
Mary Bloggs and their children.
Used as a standard example in knowledge representation... - Bloggs Family n.
An imaginary family consisting of
Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children.
Used as a standard example in knowledge representation... - Fred Foobar n.
J. Random Hacker's cousin. Any
typical human being,
more or less synomous with `someone' except that... - fred: n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a
{metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch... - bogus adj.
1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - fred n.
1. The personal name most frequently used as a
metasyntactic variable (see foo).
Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym... - bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for
measuring {bogosity}.
Compare the `wankometer' described in the {wank}...
From the same category:
- J. Random: /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}]
Arbitrary;
ordinary; any one; any old. `J. Random' is often ... - I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.
Old Testament -- Job vii,... - SMILEY
0-)... - If Bill and Hillary divorce..
who gets the house... - Collectors do it
in sets...
