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by: bruce bowser - Sat, 20 May 2023 16:47 UTC

On Monday, August 9, 1993 at 12:09:15 AM UTC-4, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I realize it's not the done thing to inject facts into a flamewar as
> well developed as this particular donnybrook has gotten, but several recent
> postings seem to have been written as though the Jargon File says something
> other than what it actually says.
> Here are the relevant entries:
> :kludge: /klooj/ or /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant
> of {kluge}, q.v.
> :kluge: /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever] 1. n. A Rube

What do you feel that "rube" means?

Pretend to spank me -- I'm a pseudo-masochist!

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