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• printing discussion n. [XEROX PARC] A protracted, low-level, time-consuming, generally pointless discussion of something only peripherally interesting to all.
• fum: [XEROX PARC] n. At PARC, often the third of the standard {metasyntactic variable}s (after {foo} and {bar}).
  Competes with {baz}, which is more common outside PARC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• PostScript:: n. A Page Description Language ({PDL})
  based on work originally done by John Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through `JaM' (`John and Martin', Martin Newell) at {XEROX PARC}, and finally implemented in its current form by John Warnock et al....
• monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• forum: n. [USENET, GEnie, CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in {BBS}, a {mailing list}, or a {newsgroup} (see {network, the}).
  A forum functions much like a bulletin board; users submit {posting}s for all to read and discussion ensues....
• pop: /pop/ [from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also capitalized `POP') 1.
  vt. To remove something from a {stack} or {pdl}....
• PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
• mumblage: /muhm'bl*j/ n. The topic of one's mumbling (see {mumble}).
  All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when `mumble' is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives....
• dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outside
  not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....