Dr. Fred Mbogo

Dr. Fred Mbogo
 /@m.boh'goh, dok'tr fred/, n.

   [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem,
   esp. an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye
   doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning." The
   name comes from synergy between {bogus} and the original Dr. Mbogo, a
   witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old Addams Family
   TV show. Interestingly enough, it turns out that under the rules for
   Swahili noun classes, `m-' is the characteristic prefix of "nouns
   referring to human beings". As such, "mbogo" is quite plausible as a
   Swahili coinage for a person having the nature of a {bogon}. Actually,
   "mbogo" is indeed a Ki-Swahili word referring to the African Cape
   Buffalo, syncerus caffer. It is one of the "big five" dangerous
   African game animals, and many people with bush experience believe it
   to be the most dangerous of them. Compare {Bloggs Family} and {J.
   Random Hacker}; see also {Fred Foobar} and {fred}.