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The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Various
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network. Compare [600]Great Worm; [601]sorcerer's apprentice mode. See
also [602]software laser, [603]network meltdown.
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armor-plated n.

Syn. for [607]bulletproof.
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asbestos adj.

[common] Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from
[611]flames; also in other highly [612]flame-suggestive usages. See,
for example, [613]asbestos longjohns and [614]asbestos cork award.
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asbestos cork award n.

Once, long ago at MIT, there was a [618]flamer so consistently
obnoxious that another hacker designed, had made, and distributed
posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the
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