from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
Church of the SubGenius
n.
A mutant offshoot of {Discordianism} launched in 1981 as a spoof of
fundamentalist Christianity by the `Reverend' Ivan Stang, a brilliant
satirist with a gift for promotion. Popular among hackers as a rich
source of bizarre imagery and references such as "Bob" the divine
drilling-equipment salesman, the Benevolent Space Xists, and the Stark
Fist of Removal. Much SubGenius theory is concerned with the
acquisition of the mystical substance or quality of {slack}. There is
a home page at http://www.subgenius.com/.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Church of the SubGenius
<body, humour> A mutant offshoot of {Discordianism} launched
in 1981 as a spoof of fundamentalist Christianity by the
"Reverend" Ivan Stang, a brilliant satirist with a gift for
promotion. Popular among hackers as a rich source of bizarre
imagery and references such as "Bob" the divine
drilling-equipment salesman, the Benevolent Space Xists, and
the Stark Fist of Removal. Much SubGenius theory is concerned
with the acquisition of the mystical substance or quality of
{slack}.
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/subgenius/slack.html).
(1996-01-02)