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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mudhead</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="muddie.html" title="muddie"/><link rel="next" href="muggle.html" title="muggle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mudhead</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="muddie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="muggle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mudhead"/><dt xmlns="" id="mudhead"><b>mudhead</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Commonly used to refer to a <a href="MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> player who
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eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD. Mudheads have been known to fail their
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degrees, drop out, etc., with the consolation, however, that they made
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wizard level. When encountered in person, on a MUD, or in a chat system,
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all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: the tactic, character, or
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wizard that is supposedly always unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a
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wizard or beating a favorite MUD; why the specific game he/she has
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experience with is so much better than any other; and the MUD he or she is
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writing or going to write because his/her design ideas are so much better
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than in any existing MUD. See also <a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>.</p><p>To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the Zuni/Hopi
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legend of the mudheads or <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">koyemshi</i></span>, mythical
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half-formed children of an unnatural union. Figures representing them act
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as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies. Others may recall the ‘High
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School Madness’ sequence from the Firesign Theatre album
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<i class="citetitle">Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers</i>, in which
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there is a character named “<span class="quote">Mudhead</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="muddie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="muggle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">muddie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> muggle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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