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[Bob Hemus]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Ian Wilson wrote:
> 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.
 That term used to be a "Dirty expression" when I was young.
Bob