Asbestos cork award
asbestos cork award
humour
Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed, had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the “asbestos cork award”. (Any reader in doubt as to the intended application of the cork should consult the etymology under flame.) Since then, it is agreed that only a select few have risen to the heights of bombast required to earn this dubious dignity – but there is no agreement on *which* few.
[Jargon File]
(1996-02-06)
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