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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pointy-haired</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pointy-hat.html" title="pointy hat"/><link rel="next" href="poke.html" title="poke"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pointy-haired</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pointy-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="poke.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pointy-haired"/><dt xmlns="" id="pointy-haired"><b>pointy-haired</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [after the character in the <a href="../D/Dilbert.html"><i class="glossterm">Dilbert</i></a> comic
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strip] Describes the extreme form of the property that separates
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<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s and <a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s from
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hackers. Compare <a href="../B/brain-dead.html"><i class="glossterm">brain-dead</i></a>;
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<a href="../D/demented.html"><i class="glossterm">demented</i></a>; see <a href="PHB.html"><i class="glossterm">PHB</i></a>. Always
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applied to people, never to ideas. The plural form is often used as a
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noun. “<span class="quote">The pointy-haireds ordered me to use Windows NT, but I set up
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a Linux server with Samba instead.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pointy-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="poke.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pointy hat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> poke</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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