The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Various
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[982]bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because
of bugginess. See [983]working as designed. _________________________________________________________________ Node:Bad and Wrong, Next:[984]Bad Thing, Previous:[985]BAD, Up:[986]= B = Bad and Wrong adj. [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast with, three less common terms - Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form "Evil, Bad and Wrong" (abbreviated EBW) is reported fromm there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo for "Bad and Wrong". Consequently, B&W is actually "Bad and Right", G&R = "Good and Wrong", and G&W = "Good and Right". Compare [987]evil and rude, [988]Good Thing, [989]Bad Thing. _________________________________________________________________ Node:Bad Thing, Next:[990]bag on the side, Previous:[991]Bad and Wrong, Up:[992]= B = Bad Thing n. [very common; from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That"] Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the |
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