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.