drool-proof paper

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This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for drool-proof paper - Next: drop on the floor, Prev: droid
:drool-proof paper: /n./ Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed down, 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 Apples LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame."
* (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain)


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