BSD Fortune - Quotes from the Jargon File
The Jargon file is a glossary of hacker slang. This page will randomly select a term from the jargon file. You can find out more about the Jargon file at Wikipedia or get the whole thing at Eric Raymond's home page. Eric maintains the Jargon File and published a printed version called "The New Hacker's Dictionary"
Randomly Generated Fortune
:gubbish: /guhb'*sh/ /n./ [a portmanteau of `garbage' and
`rubbish'; may have originated with SF author Philip K. Dick]
Garbage; crap; nonsense. "What is all this gubbish?" The
opposite portmanteau `rubbage' is also reported; in fact, it was
British slang during the 19th century and appears in Dickens.
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