WOMBAT

[acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as wrestling with a wombat. See also {crawling horror}, {SMOP}. Also note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in {Commonwealth Hackish}.

Users of the {PDP-11} database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to "HELP WOMBAT" with factual information about Real World wombats.

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