Jester's Condescending English Dictionary - U
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
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| Udall's Fourth Law | n | Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences you don't like. |
| Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb | n | Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it. |
| Underlying Principle of Socio-Genetics | n | Superiority is recessive. |
| understand | v | To reach a point, in your investigation of some subject, at which you cease to examine what is really present, and operate on the basis of your own internal model instead. |
| unfair competition | n | Selling cheaper than we do. |
| union | n | A dues-paying club workers wield to strike management. |
| The United States Army | n | 194 years of proud service, unhampered by progress. |
| Universe | n | The problem. |
| University | n | Like a software house, except the software's free, and it's usable, and it works, and if it breaks they'll quickly tell you how to fix it, and ... |
| Unix | n | A computer operating system, once thought to be flabby and impotent, that now shows a surprising interest in making off with the workstation harem. |
| Unnamed Law | n | If it happens, it must be possible. |
| untold wealth | n | What you left out on April 15th. |
| urine | n | Opposite of you're out. |
| User n | n | A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. |
| user | n | The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." -- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top" [I always thought "computer professional" was the phrase hackers used when they meant "idiot." Ed.] (2)Someone who manipulates others. |
