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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DAU</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="Datamation.html" title="Datamation"/><link rel="next" href="Dave-the-Resurrector.html" title="Dave the Resurrector"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DAU</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Datamation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Dave-the-Resurrector.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DAU"/><dt xmlns="" id="DAU"><b>DAU</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dow/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [German FidoNet] German acronym for Dümmster Anzunehmender User
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(stupidest imaginable user). From the engineering-slang GAU for
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Grösster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst assumable accident, esp. of a LNG
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tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. In
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popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case nuclear accidents
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such as a core meltdown. See <a href="../C/cretin.html"><i class="glossterm">cretin</i></a>,
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<a href="../F/fool.html"><i class="glossterm">fool</i></a>, <a href="../L/loser.html"><i class="glossterm">loser</i></a> and
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