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[Ian Wilson]

On Feb 13, 2008 4:01 PM, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> "Wonky"? Is that a technical term?

Wonky is very much a technical term:

"That fsck went wonky after Doug pulled the SCSI drive from the array"
"The application is wonky after we let Ian mess with the configuration files."
"There seems to be a wonky OOM whenever that user clicks on the graph."
"Register 10's sig cap gets wonky with we're sending an 0x0F to the pad."
"If you get anything from NCR, their imports tend to go wonky after 1000 rows."
"That Chroma-key seems to be wonky when whats-her-name has puffy hair."

Of course, there's also the term in relationships:

"Elaine seems to get very wonky during the week that she's on the white pills."
"She seems to think that I get my wonky views on marriage from Sinbad."

You can use Wonky in all aspects of life, but it may take some finesse
in order to get it right:

"What kinda wonky stuff was he smoking"  is probably not a good use of
the term, however, "I don't have the heart to tell the salescritter
that his numbers were so wonky that he humiliated the company" could
be construed as a good use of the phrase.


No need to tip folks, I'm here all week.

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Ian Wilson
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