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[Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly

executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by

contrast with, three less common terms - Bad and Right (a kludge,

something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or

other attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These

terms entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported

from elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form

"Evil, Bad and Wrong" (abbreviated EBW) is reported fromm there. There

are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo for "Bad and

Wrong". Consequently, B&W is actually "Bad and Right", G&R = "Good and

Wrong", and G&W = "Good and Right". Compare [987]evil and rude,

[988]Good Thing, [989]Bad Thing.

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Node:Bad Thing, Next:[990]bag on the side, Previous:[991]Bad and

Wrong, Up:[992]= B =

Bad Thing n.

[very common; from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All

That"] Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the

subject. This term is always capitalized, as in "Replacing all of the

9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Oppose

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