drool-proof paper

jargon Documentation that has been obsessively dumbeddown, to the point where only a cretin could bear to read

it, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof paper

syndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper". For

example, this is an actual quote from Apple Computer's

LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open

fire or flame."

[Jargon File]

(1997-06-23)