(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 16:56:33
Sturgeon's Law = S = sufficiently small

sucking mud adj.

[Applied Data Research] (also `pumping mud') Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server. This Dallas regionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query. "We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready to suck mud?"

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

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