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)
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