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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>drool-proof paper</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="drone.html" title="drone"/><link rel="next" href="drop-on-the-floor.html" title="drop on the floor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">drool-proof paper</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="drone.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drop-on-the-floor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="drool-proof-paper"/><dt xmlns="" id="drool-proof-paper"><b>drool-proof paper</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Documentation that has been obsessively <a href="dumbed-down.html"><i class="glossterm">dumbed
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down</i></a>, to the point where only a <a href="../C/cretin.html"><i class="glossterm">cretin</i></a>
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could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed to the ‘drool-proof
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paper syndrome’ or to have been ‘written on drool-proof
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paper’. For example, this is an actual quote from Apple's
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LaserWriter manual: “<span class="quote">Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or
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flame.</span>” The SGI Indy manual included the line “<span class="quote">[Do not] dangle
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