drool-proof paper

drool-proof paper
 n.

   Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed down}, to the point
   where only a {cretin} could bear to read it, is said to have succumbed
   to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on
   drool-proof paper'. For example, this is an actual quote from Apple's
   LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or
   flame." The SGI Indy manual included the line "[Do not] dangle the
   mouse by the cord or throw it at coworkers."
    

drool-proof paper

   <jargon> Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed
   down}, to the point where only a {cretin} could bear to read
   it, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof paper
   syndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper".  For
   example, this is an actual quote from {Apple Computer}'s
   LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open
   fire or flame."

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1997-06-23)