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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Doom, X of</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="dongle-disk.html" title="dongle-disk"/><link rel="next" href="doorstop.html" title="doorstop"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Doom, X of</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dongle-disk.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="doorstop.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Doom--X-of"/><dt xmlns="" id="Doom--X-of"><b>Doom, X of</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A construction similar to ‘<a href="Death--X-of.html"><i class="glossterm">Death, X
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of</i></a>, but derived rather from the Cracks of Doom in
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s <i class="citetitle">Lord of the Rings</i> trilogy.
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The connotations are slightly different; a Foo of Death is mainly being
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held up to ridicule, but one would have to take a Foo of Doom a bit more
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