pointy-haired

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(idea) by Jargon (2.1 y) (print)   (I like it!) Thu Jul 19 2001 at 14:04:23
pointy hat = P = poke

pointy-haired adj.

[after the character in the Dilbert comic strip] Describes the extreme form of the property that separates suits and marketroids from hackers. Compare brain-dead; demented; see PHB. Always applied to people, never to ideas. The plural form is often used as a noun. "The pointy-haireds ordered me to use Windows NT, but I set up a Linux server with Samba instead."

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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